If you’ve spent any time with your kids recently, you might have heard them say these things: That’s Sigma.
Even what sigma?
Confused by what this might mean, or why are children so obsessed with it? This is a quick breakdown of the words from…
Sigma actually originated from Manosphere
Sigma is the eighteenth letter of the Greek alphabet. However, in 2010, the tenure of “Sigma Male” was created by far-right writer Theodore Robert Beale as an opposite to the Alpha/Beta male hierarchy”, According to the International Metropolitan.
Since then, Sigma has been used to describe a certain type of person.
Alpha/beta hierarchy means that some people are more dominant (alpha) while others are more submissive (Beta).
Then it is said that there is a third type of male: Sigma.
oneS niall Stewart explains in a medium They are “cute and confident, but cunning and counting”.
Sigma male is a lonely wolf who does not follow this person – considered successful and cool, but by its own meaning.
Someone like Patrick Bateman, the fictional character in the movie American Psychology. Yes.
The term Sigma is especially rooted in Manosphere, an online community that is associated with misogyny and anti-feminist perspectives.
In the Tiktok interpreter on the topic, Teacher Lindsey describes Sigmas As “the same thing as alpha, but humble”.
“Now, middle school students, high school students, they don’t really use it in this way,” added the term Sigma Lindsey. “But it still retains some of the original meaning.”
So, how do kids use it?
Teachers say that when children use it, they usually just say “the best”. For example: “You look sigma.”
Or, “those trainers are so sigma.”
Some people use it as another word for cool.
There are other phrases now: What is Sigma?
OK, what does that mean?
“The kids just said they had any chances in the classroom,” Lindsay said.
The teacher explained that this came from SpongeBob Memeall places.
“It started trending in early April, with the animation of squid and SpongeBob, and they watched someone making ice cream cones. At some point, squid just left: Well, what is sigma?”
He added: “It really doesn’t make any sense, it’s just a fill phrase, a fill word, a reaction… they’re using it because it’s in the trend.”
So, it’s basically like saying: What the hell is it? knew.
