In recent weeks, new expressions such as "quoicoubeh" or "apayinye" have flourished in playgrounds.
This is a new challenge, a language game straight out of TikTok, which is a hit with young people.
The hashtags #quoicoubeh and #apayinye have already generated 12.3 million and 2.4 million views on TikTok.
“Quaicoubeh” or “apanyae”… You have certainly heard these expressions around you in recent weeks.
Do not try to understand their meaning, there is none!
This is a new challenge, a language game straight out of TikTok, which is a hit with young people in playgrounds.
The word "quoicoubeh" is a reply that we throw at someone who says "what"?
Or who ends a sentence with the word “what”.
It thus functions in the same way as 'hairdresser' (for 'what? - feur'), another schoolyard cue that has been around since the 1980s. trap that closes on the interlocutor”, explains the orthodidact site, an online platform for learning spelling.
“The person who answers “quoicoubeh” has no intention of participating in the discussion, they are just trying to have fun with the situation”.
Same thing when the person opposite answers us "eh", we retort "apayinye".
What ?
- Quoicoubeh 🐨😂
How?
- Captain 👨✈️😂
Huh?
- Apayinye 🍍😂
honestly even I think it sucks.
What?
Fire >>>>
— Alpha Wuhan🇨🇳😷 (@ChinwAlphaWann) January 17, 2023
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Millions of views on TikTok
For the past few weeks, these expressions have therefore been the subject of many videos published on TikTok.
These expressions acclaimed by teenagers were popularized by @camskolavache, known as “La Vache”, followed by 186,000 people on the social network.
In a series of videos released in December, some of which have reached more than 3 million views, he alternately traps teachers, classmates, family members and passers-by.
In one of them, he has fun asking a question while jabbering so that we answer him with a question of the type “huh?
", or what ?
“, and he responds with invented words like the famous “quoicoubeh” or “apanyae”.
@majda_sup60
we follow the trend 😂😂quoikoubeh #ecole#quoi#CapCut
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These expressions very quickly went viral on TikTok.
The hashtags #quoicoubeh and #apayinye each generated 12.3 million and 2.4 million views.
Among the most popular videos, we find in particular that of majda_sup60 which has accumulated more than 3.6 million views since its publication on January 10.
We see a teenager trapping his teacher in front of hilarious students.
This isn't the first time teens have followed trends straight out of TikTok.
It remains to be seen after how long they will get tired of it, as was the case before for the expressions "munyanyo" or "sheesh"...
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