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[–] idegenszavak@sh.itjust.works 68 points 1 day ago (4 children)

African-American Vernacular English. You are welcome.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 14 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I thought they meant AvE the "keep your dick in a vise" guy. I stopped watching him a long time ago when he brought politics into the shop but he did have some funny sayings.

[–] persona_matata@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

It's not just you. That's who I thought of as well. I wasn't aware of any of the in between stuff I just moved on and wondered what happened to him. Used to be a pretty active subreddit based on his channel too but reddit people got weird about the lord and savior stuff.

[–] pipe01@programming.dev 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

He was a disembodied pair of hands on YouTube who said things like "tough as woodpecker lips" or "stiff as a wedding night prick" He'd take apart power tools and see how they were built. He was funny, gained a following and became an asshole grifter.

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Given the vise, I suspect he wasn't fucking much of anything.

I'm not grateful, I already knew, you presumptuous bastard.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 2 points 20 hours ago

Thanks, I googled it and came up with nothing useful. Like another user I also thought it was going to be something anime related.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Oh. I thought it was an anime.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Riddle you, riddle me, from which one springs skibidi

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 19 hours ago

Georgian and/or Russian

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So much comes from AAVE, I'm expecting it to become the default American dialect in a few decades. More and more I see online creators talking in it.

The British vs American English shitposting will get a huge boost, we kinda got used to the existing differences.

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Thankfully I'll be dead by then.

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was gonna say in the UK, a lot of modern slang over here comes from MLE (Multicultural London English)

Clearly this makes up a key part of our respective shitposting R&D divisions

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 4 points 19 hours ago

Aren’t there some that come from Korean (“cheugy”, IIRC, and some gamer slang)?

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 4 points 22 hours ago