Source: 6 News.
SBS: Senator labels the government ‘capaholics’: Fatima Payman’s Gen Alpha speech decoded - Includes graphic below and edited video with some ‘translation’.
Graphic from article above
It might seem crazy but, I can’t complain about a politician trying to represent and speak to young Australians. I got a good laugh out of the speech despite not knowing what she was talking about
despite not knowing what she was talking about
I mean for the most part you don’t really need to know gen z slang to follow it. And I’m not 100% certain she’s even using it correctly. I don’t know what “gyat” means, but I doubt it’s actually a stand-in for “goods” in the term “goods and services tax”.
I’m gen z so maybe it’s embarrasing that I’ve got no understanding of this slang
So, the slang that I (as a younger millennial) understood was:
capping/capaholics: I know “no cap” gets used to mean “seriously/honest”, so from context those become “lying/liars”
sigma: because talking about being “alpha” is too outdated, sigma is basically the new “alpha”, i.e., awesome people
yapaholics: yap isn’t even new slang. I reckon my boomer parents would know that one.
Everything else was just context. “There will be no fanum tax under a government I lead”. Either fanum actually means carbon, or more likely she just chose some random word that fit the metre of Gillard’s now-infamous line. Also: kinda disappointing to see her bring that up in this way as a former Labor Senator. And one who left the party not because of disagreement with Labor ideals, but because Labor political leaders today aren’t living up to those ideas…or even up to their own official policy and membership.
Anyway, I’m not sure this is necessarily gen z slang anyway. Maybe younger gen-z–older gen α? Definitely feels like the sort of thing you’d hear from a tween/early teen today, rather than from late teens/early 20s, and the youngest gen-zs are 12 this year.
“There will be no fanum tax under a government I lead”. Either fanum actually means carbon, or more likely she just chose some random word that fit the metre of Gillard’s now-infamous line.
Fanum Tax is one I do actually know the origins of. There are a group of US streamers popular with Gen Alpha who live in a share house and they’ve developed a comedy bit during the streams of one of them, Kai Cenat, where he sits down to eat some food before his friend, Fanum, barges into the room and demands Kai give him the food. When this happens, everyone spams “fanum tax” in the chat. So in it’s original form it’s referring to food theft (the kind of thing kids do at school I guess). I don’t know if it’s evolved any further from that.
Anyway, as you suspected much of her speech was Alpha slang rather than Zoomer slang.
I thought it meant “butt”, like in that brainrot song “sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler”.
If you have a gyat you indeed have the goods, and you are serving, but you should not be faunum taxed for it.
That was hard to watch. I must be old, or that was super cringey. Or both, probably both.
I think maybe it’s so self-consciously cringe it’s actually based? Payman has quite a lot of good will banked with me, though, so I may be biased.
I agree, thought it was pretty funny. The Senate is filled with weird publicity stunts.
Nah that’s definitely how I took this too.
Honestly was expecting worse, too bad she’ll likely be dismissed over it, but then again I’m not Australian so idk.
Na, she’s already a cross-bencher. Another ~4 years on her term. She’d have to do something pretty drastic to even get censured.
And when you’ve got kooky ol’Malcolm Roberts next to her sounding like he’s about as high as the ISS everytime he stands to speak, i think Payman will be fine.
lol
