A Guide to Kids’ Culture for Out-of-Touch Adults: What Does ‘Let’s Get Sendy’ Mean?
When you were young, slang made sense, fashion was harmless, and young people didn’t paint their faces green or pee on stuff. But those days are long gone (and, in fact, never really existed). Today’s kids and teens have a language, a culture, and a set of rituals that are meaningless, but only to you and me because we’re old and tired. This column won’t make you young again, but it might help you feel less offended when someone says, “Start digging in your ass, Gemini.”
What do “sendy” and “let’s get sendy” mean?
The most popular Gen Alpha slang word this week is “sendy.” It’s an adjective that describes someone who does something bold and/or exciting. The phrase “let’s get sendy” means something like “let’s do something big/crazy.”
Or it means nothing. Generation Alpha slang is just plain rotten, so the phrase “let’s dance,” especially when sung, might just be a way to make your friends laugh or piss off anyone over 15.
The word “Sendy” originally comes from the slang expression “send it,” which (likely) originated in the rock climbing community of the 1980s or 1990s as shorthand for “ascend it.” When faced with a particularly difficult section, one climber might yell “send it!” to encourage their buddies, or you could say “send it” to indicate that you were about to do something risky yourself. “Send it” has since spread to other extreme sports, such as mountain biking, skateboarding, and snowboarding.
The adjective “Sendy” seems to have originated with the Nelk Boys, a group who have been posting mostly humorous videos on their YouTube channel for over a decade. The Nelk Boys often say “send it,” and in this 2023 video, one of them says, “Let’s send a sendy”:
This probably isn’t the first time someone has said “sendy” (it seems pretty obvious if you say “send it” a lot), but it might be the first time someone has said “let’s get sendy.” If so, it would document the exact moment a slang expression was born—a bonanza for etymologists. Either way, it took a couple of years for “let’s get sendy” to filter from a podcast into every high school in the country/world, but here we are in 2025, and starting to use sendy.
What does SDIYBT (start digging in your butt, twin) mean?
This acronym and phrase are becoming increasingly popular among Generation Alpha kids. SDIYBT stands for “start digging in your butt, twin.”
What the phrase “start digging in your ass, Gemini” actually means is debatable. Some suggest it means something like “dig deep” or focus and unleash your inner strength, but it most likely means nothing because the words that mean things are no longer relevant.
The origin of the slang expression SDIYBT comes from a meme someone made of SpongeBob SquarePants saying, “Start digging in your butt, twin.” (In the original cartoon, SpongeBob does not say SDIYBT; it was added by the memer):
Soon people started singing along to the video:
or sing the phrase like this:
and this:
and this:
Soon, there were more than 26,000 videos under the SDIYBT hashtag on TikTok .
Summary : SDIYBT means nothing; kids say it because it’s funny to them and annoying to you.
What does “Dich” mean?
“Dih” is algorithmic for “dick,” a way to protect internet content from being taken down for using a word that might be flagged by censorship software.
(For more Gen Z and Gen A slang, check out my article, “ ‘Clanker,’ ‘Dwerking,’ and Other Gen Z and Alpha Slang You Might Need to Decode .”)
What is a “great castle”?
Let’s leave the world of annoyingly vague Gen Alpha slang behind and look to Gen Z, many of whom have outgrown their brain rot and are trying to be better people. The Great Lockdown, or September Lockdown, is a collective online self-improvement initiative in which young people vow to dedicate September to December to achieving personal goals like eating healthy, exercising regularly, and building healthy habits. It’s a kind of post-summer habit reset.
Of course, this can’t be something online (especially something that’s mostly done by women) without being judged. Some worry that this trend might be an unhealthy part of a “ major body positivity uprising ” or evidence of societal collapse , but I don’t see it. After spending some time looking at popular videos under the big lock-in hashtag , all I saw were people listing their own goals , giving advice on how to successfully stick to a plan, or just generally trying to motivate . No one focused on, say, starving themselves. As for this being evidence of societal collapse, I don’t see that either. Self-improvement/self-help trends in America go back to at least the 1800s, and there are much clearer signs of society collapsing than this.
The Hottest Trend in Colleges: Public Urination
Gen Z isn’t all about wholesome self-improvement. There are also college students who urinate on things in public. Sure, college students have always peed on things in public, but social media is turning it into a trend . TikTok accounts like @brockport.pisser , @thesunycantonpisser , and @buff_state_pisser are getting thousands of views on videos of themselves urinating near various landmarks at the schools they supposedly attend. A peeing boy at the University of West Florida tagged UWF’s welcome sign, and the sign reportedly cost the school more than $2 million. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the University of Maine have all been targeted by anonymous urinators, and there’s even been an arrest. Nichols State University police recently arrested a guy who calls himself “Nicholls Pisser” for violating an unspecified state law and city ordinance. Given the way these videos are filmed — a stream of liquid squirting out from a source off-camera — proving this seems like it will be difficult. The videos could easily have been filmed with a water bottle, as at least one peeer has pointed out .
Viral Video of the Week: TikToker Paints His Face Green
It’s safe to assume that all these accounts with pissing on everything belong to guys. Guys are cool, of course, but sometimes they can be too much . That’s the whole story of today’s viral video.
TikTokerHayley had a great life: she posted funny videos about her life , reactions to books , and lip-synced to her 14,000 followers. Then one day, she posted this:
Whatever demon is running TikTok’s recommendation algorithm decided to spread the video, and almost a million people watched it, but they were the wrong people. According to Bailey, this one video changed her audience demographic from mostly female to mostly male, and that change wasn’t good. “Now my inbox and comments are flooded with nasty messages,” Bailey says. But she came up with a unique solution to get rid of all those nasty/men, as you can see in the video below:
Bailey painted her face green ? Looks like it. The comments section is full of women, and Bailey took the idea even further by giving herself a cool red mask: