Language moves fast, but kids move faster. As you get older, there are trends, references, and slang that you won’t get. Don’t worry, there are a lot of us trying to figure out what “skibidi” and “6 7” mean. To help keep up with the bagets, here are 8 Gen Alpha slang terms that you should know:

Fanum Tax

“Fanum Tax” refers to the act of taking someone else’s food. It originated from content creator JustFanum, where he occasionally takes other people’s food. The internet caught up with this and called it the fanum tax.

Skibidi Toilet

Skibidi Toilet does not have a direct meaning or way of use. It originated from Alexey Gerasimov’s machinima web series on YouTube, which features a disembodied head popping out of toilets. As gory as it sounds, this grew to become a viral meme. Kids use it just for fun or the laughs.

Aura

There are multiple iterations of “aura”. Among these are aura points, positive aura, negative aura, and aura farming. All of these relate to one thing: your vibe.

The energy you put off determines your aura. If you do something cool, then you gain positive aura. Do otherwise, it is negative aura. Farming aura just means you are doing a lot to gain positive aura points.

Opp

Opp is short for opposition or opponent. You could use the word “opp” to describe people against you, the literal meaning of opposition.

So yes, your grade school bully is your opp.

Mewing

Mewing is described as the action of accentuating your jawline by putting your tongue to the roof of your mouth and swallowing. It is an actual facial exercise that turned into a meme.

The meme involves the act of shushing, mewing, and pointing out your accentuated jawline. When you do this, you physically can’t talk. It is used as a way to say that “I am busy mewing, I can’t talk right now”.

6 7

6 7 does not have an actual meaning. It’s a reference to Skrilla’s song “Doot Doot” (which is used in basketball edits online), but really, it’s just fun to say — especially when paired with hand gestures. Gen Alpha loves saying it whenever they see the numbers 6 and 7 together, which happens a lot since these two numbers are almost always next to each other.

(Still confused? So are we.)

Sigma

Sigma is used to describe someone cool and independent, to the likes of a lone wolf. So if a Gen Alpha describes you as “sigma”, that’s a compliment! Beyond this meaning, some use it as a filler word or simple nonsense, like “what the sigma?”

Unc

Unc is short for “Uncle” and used to describe old people or people getting old. So, if any of these terms introduced in this article are new and weird to you, then Gen Alpha will likely call you an unc. Just accept it. Time comes for us all.

Use these references sparingly so that you don’t use aura, unc!

Got any other Gen Alpha slang that’s confounding you? Tell us about them in the comments!