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quoi

[ SLANG ][ MULTILINGUAL NATIVE ]

FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: French Internet CultureCLUSTER: french_youth_slang

French interjection « quoi » (what?) used as bait in a prank: someone who answers a muffled question with « quoi ? » gets a rhyming reply such as « feur » (coiffeur) or « quoicoubeh » in return. Also a regular tic at the end of a sentence.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"— Tu sais quoi ? — Quoi ? — Feur !"

LORE & ORIGIN

Wiktionnaire lists « quoi » as an interjection of surprise or incomprehension and, in popular speech, a sentence-final tic seeking agreement. Know Your Meme describes the « quoi ? feur » prank as an older offline joke and dates the viral « quoicoubeh » form to 5 December 2022, when the TikToker Camskolavache posted a video trying to get his teacher to say « quoi »; news coverage followed in late January 2023.

FIRST SEEN

5 December 2022 (Camskolavache's TikTok video, per Know Your Meme)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2010s to 2020s, French social media

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Related To:quoicoubeh quoicoubaka allo quoi

Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRquoi →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SLANG ][ MULTILINGUAL NATIVE ]

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

5 December 2022 (Camskolavache's TikTok video, per Know Your Meme)

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