TikTok’s Fanum tax, gyatt, and rizz, explained

There are many memes, internet jokes, and other niche content, but sometimes a trend that is difficult to understand appears.

Such is the case with what I’m going to call the “Skibidi” song. It’s a tune I have to name, because, well, it’s made up and there is no official term for it. There are multiple versions of the meme, but in the most popular one, a person with a voice that sounds like a prepubescent boy sings, “Sticking out your gyat for the rizzler, you’re so Skibidi, you’re so Fanum tax,” while a video shows a Fortnite Character emoting when wearing the The Among Us back bling.

You definitely don’t need to know the words to hum along — it’s an earworm! But if you do want to know what it means, we’ve got you covered. Luckily, it’s not that confusing; you just need to know all the references and slang.

What is the ‘sticking out your gyat for the rizzler’ meme?

On Oct. 2, a humor account with the handle homestucklover398 shared a video where a young boyish voice sang a parody of the 2022 song “ecstacy” by Suicidal-Idol. This video was an instant hit, with people reacting to the nonsensical song lyrics.

These videos were of varying formats, and many of them included footage of MinecraftUsing filters, people create parodies and games based on the original parody. As of the date of this publication, over 195,000 videos have used the sound.

What are the lyrics to ‘you’re so Skibidi, so Fanum tax’?

No official lyrics are available. This isn’t a real song (yet). Here are the words that the singer sang in the TikTok sound. There are no official spellings for a lot of these words, so we’ve spelled them based on what we’ve seen popularized on the internet. This is our masterpiece:

The rizzler is a gyat.

You’re so Skibidi

You’re so Fanum tax

You are my sigma, I am yours.

Come here, you freaks!

Please give me the Ohio

What do the lyrics ‘sticking out your gyat for the rizzler’ mean?

Ah, you’re still here. OK, great. Now let’s break it down line by line. It’s a lot of slang, but most of it is simple.

The rizzler is a gyat.

It is used when someone sticks their behind out for another person who’s charming. The term “gyatt” or “gyat,” is a shortened version of “god damn.” It was popularized by the Twitch streamer Kai Cenat as an exclamation used when he sees a curvy woman.

The word “rizz” is a shortened version of “charisma.” A person who has “rizz” is endearing and good at charming their crushes.

You’re so Skibidi

Skibidi is the name of a viral song called Skibidi. It has been re-imagined in many different ways. The original song was popularized by a series of viral dancing videos, and then it was remixed with “Give It to Me” by Timbaland to make a new TikTok sound. The remix was used in the Skibidi toilet meme, a video seemingly created with Garry’s Mod that shows a head in a toilet singing along to the song.

You’re so Fanum tax

The term “Fanum tax” was also popularized by Kai Cenat. Basically, he would use the term “tax” whenever he or a guest on his stream took a small bite of food. In a clip, the streamer Fanum took a bite of some of Cenat’s cookies, so fans started calling it the “Fanum tax.”

Just wanna be your Sigma

A “sigma male” is sort of like a stereotypical macho man who is popular with women. It was coined by the tech bros, and it is usually associated with men who are dominant in their lifestyle. If you’re a beta, you’re not a sigma — or so I’m told by my friend who goes to the gym six times a week.

Here comes the Freaking Freaks

It is easy to understand.

Please give me the Ohio

A lot of popular lyrics videos for the song say “Ohio” and spell it like that. However, judging from other trends, I think another possible interpretation of it is that it is not a reference to the American state of Ohio and is in fact saying “ohayō” in Japanese, which means “good morning.” So maybe there is a world where the original artistic intent in this message is to ask for a waifu? It’s up to you!

What does all this mean exactly?

If you’ve heard this song online and seen viral videos attached to it, you might have seen several videos talking about how this song is a Gen Alpha meme, the label for the generation below Gen Z. It’s how online users reacted to the strange, incomprehensible lyrics. However, in another sense, this trend represents how much humor online hasn’t changed — regardless if it’s truly Gen Alpha or not — because of the way it brings together different internet references.

This song combines a number of popular media with the young. TikTok video clips that used the music included images from other games, such as Minecraft You can also find out more about the following: Fortnite. Both games have inspired tons of memes and online trends, including another extremely similar viral song trend called “Chug Jug with You.”

It also speaks of the trend-cycle in which Black people start trends, and then they are reused by others. It contains a number of examples of the slang used by Cenat. He is Black. In reality, a lot of “internet slang” is actually African American Vernacular English that is later adopted by internet-savvy users. The words are new but the structure of these trends is the same.