gegagedigedagedago

English

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Etymology

Around February 2024. Ultimately originates from an earlier Internet meme depicting a chicken nugget with a stylistic cartoonish face (taken from the video game platform Roblox) singing sped up and higher pitched renditions of various songs. Gegagedigedagedago is taken from the first line of a July 2023 cover by TikToker @razioff of the 1994 song "Cotton Eye Joe" by Swedish Eurodance group Rednex, which became the song most associated with the chicken nugget meme. The initial lyric, already hardly intelligible, is "if it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe", which, in the cover sung by @razioff, sounds like a nonlexical scat vocable. The lyric itself was first transcribed as early as 30 January 2024.^[1] See also skibidi.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ɡə.dæː.ɡə.diːɡə.dæːɡə.dæː.ʔɔː]
Audio (US): (file)

Interjection

gegagedigedagedago

(nonce word, Internet slang, humorous) Used to evoke the idea of brain rot on the Internet.
- 2024 May 20, u/Astraea_Fuor, “Brain rot slop”, in Reddit‎^[2], r/ihaveihaveihavereddit, archived from the original on 18 September 2024:
  how can I laugh at this there's no gegagedigedagedago
- 2024 June 30, u/DJ_NINJA9, “YouTube is insane with their censorship”, in Reddit‎^[3], r/memes, archived from the original on 21 September 2024:
  Gedagedigedagado is not fucking welcome here
- 2024 July 11, @BorknBandage, Twitter‎^[4], archived from the original on 18 September 2024:
  Gegagedigedagedago~ 🐶🩶
- 2024 August 19, u/crozone, “I was convinced to see The Crow (2024) from this persuasive advertising.”, in Reddit‎^[5], r/shittymoviedetails, archived from the original on 18 September 2024:
  I paid the fanam tax took my girl to the movie expecting absolute Grimace Shake, was gonna mog it but it actually went Ohio like Gegagedigedagedago. Director was defs looksmaxxing this one. 8/10 got some level 3 gyatt after.
- 2024 August 27, @Meekocakez, Twitter‎^[6], archived from the original on 21 September 2024:
  This is so amazing shocks in gedagedigedagadao skibidi kidz bop karmas a bitch video language
- 2024 September 14, @to_much_silly, Twitter‎^[7], archived from the original on 18 September 2024:
  they played "cotton eye joe" at the school dance. Whoever recommended that, your amazing " Gegagedigedagedago "

References

^ @vellfarre (2024 January 30) Twitter‎^[1]: “gegagedigedagedago a bin marid a lontamago wedija cumfrom wedija go ― If it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe, I'd been married a long time ago. Where did you come from where did you go?”

[1] @vellfarre (2024 January 30) Twitter‎^[1]: “gegagedigedagedago a bin marid a lontamago wedija cumfrom wedija go ― If it hadn't been for cotton eye Joe, I'd been married a long time ago. Where did you come from where did you go?”

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