Yes, 'Skibidi' Has Been Added to the Dictionary

The ravages of time spare nobody. One day, you’re with it, then they change what ‘it’ is, and suddenly everything is weird and confusing. You’re not exempt from it. It’ll happen to you, especially when you hear the term ‘skibidi toilet’ and wonder if you’re having a stroke.

‘Skibidi’ has now been added to the Cambridge Dictionary, along with several other slang terms that have become a part of our modern lexicon. More than 6,000 new words have been added, according to the BBC, all reflecting the incredible ways that our language evolves. It’s a good thing, but also skibidi. The word is defined by the dictionary as ‘a word that can have different meanings such as ‘cool’ or ‘bad’, or can be used with no real meaning as a joke.’ So, it’s just kind of nonsense filler. So fetch.

It was popularized via a machinima web series created by Alexey Gerasimov that has proven to be astonishingly popular with children aged six and younger. Apparently, it’s about a war between toilets with human heads and robots with TVs and speakers for heads. A big-budget movie adaptation was announced last year. The future is here, and it’s skibidi.

Other words added to the dictionary this year include ‘tradwife’, regarding the sudden increase in conservative imagery of women as picture-perfect wives and stay-at-home mothers, and ‘delulu’, which basically means ‘delusional.’ But there’s also ‘broligarchy’, which explains itself, and ‘mouse jiggler’, which is not a porn search term but relates to a tool or piece of software used to make it seem like you’re working when you’re not, such as something that prevents your computer from going into sleep mode when you’re trying to nap on company time.

Internet speak is pretty dominant here, as you can see, which is just indicative of where we all spend our time. Trying to even define half of this stuff feels beside the point. Surely, even taking something like ‘skibidi toilet’ this seriously just confirms that the trolling has won? If nothing else, it gives us a time capsule of this era of perennially online brain rot that has proven to be more impactful on our lives than we might want to admit. But I still refuse to accept the redefining of the term ‘rawdogging.’