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.
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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”
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