(slang, AAVE, derogatory, usually, offensive) White people.
Tangata Tiriti is an honourable identity, but wypipo avoid it BC it means respecting Tangata Whenua
10,000% 😤 Not my neurologist recently explaining to me how any stress can greatly flare my conditions and that I need to stay low-stress before surgery, and then wypipo doing fuckshit around/to me all day 🫠 I swear…
(slang, AAVE, derogatory, usually, offensive) White people.
Wypipo is an internet phonetic spelling of "white people," used in Black Twitter for commentary on white behaviour. Not concerning unless used antagonistically. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
Wypipo is an internet phonetic spelling of "white people," used in Black Twitter for commentary on white behaviour. Not concerning unless used antagonistically. If your kid uses it constantly, ask them where they first heard it, not to police their speech but to understand which online community they are in. Most slang of this kind moves through TikTok and group chats, so seeing it in your child's vocabulary just means they are plugged into normal teen internet culture.
Slang is read by different audiences for very different reasons. The For parents view re-explains the term in plain, non-judgemental language so a caregiver can understand what their child means without needing the surrounding subculture. The For English learners view focuses on register (when it's safe to use), formal alternatives, and common mistakes — what a textbook won't teach you.
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The unmistakable vibe someone gives off that screams oblivious, overly comfortable white-person behavior — think asking to speak to the manager, bringing a casserole dish nobody asked for, or calling the police over a BBQ. Wypipo energy isn't about race as a fact, it's about a recognizable pattern of tone-deaf entitlement, excessive rule-following, or cringe-level cultural disconnection. Coined in Black social media spaces as a way to name what was already universally recognized. It's critique disguised as comedy, and somehow always painfully accurate.
The state of doing something that perfectly, almost performatively embodies white American cultural stereotypes — asking to speak to the manager, eating a sad unseasoned salad at a desk, or apologising profusely for something minor while somehow making it everyone else's problem. Wypipo mode is when the behaviour stops being accidental and becomes a full lifestyle commitment. It's used online as both a light roast and a genuine cultural observation, usually triggered by a specific incident that crosses from individual quirk into confirmed pattern.
(especially, AAVE, pejorative, ethnic slur, offensive) A white person, a person of Western European descent.
All Rights Reserved. # Wypipo Updated about a year ago by [LiterallyAustin](https://knowyourmeme.com/users/literallyaustin).
Wypipo is an internet phonetic respelling of "white people," originating in Black Twitter and used to comment on white people's behaviour, often satirically. Use only in casual internet contexts; the playful spelling is part of the cultural register. Formal equivalent: "white people." Common non-native mistake: using outside the AAVE-influenced internet cultural context where it fits naturally. Read or listen to the word in context several times before trying it yourself; the right register is harder to learn than the dictionary meaning.
“Tangata Tiriti is an honourable identity, but wypipo avoid it BC it means respecting Tangata Whenua”
“10,000% 😤 Not my neurologist recently explaining to me how any stress can greatly flare my conditions and that I need to stay low-stress before surgery, and then wypipo doing fuckshit around/to me all day 🫠 I swear the wheelchair makes the antiBlackness even worse”
“All Rights Reserved. # Wypipo Updated about a year ago by [LiterallyAustin](https://knowyourmeme.com/users/literallyaustin).”
“Is "nonconformity" just a wypipo problem?”
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