About

Guess The Gibberish is a social media filter game on Instagram and TikTok wherein a user is presented with a series of nonsensical words which when said aloud will sound like a well-known phrase (i.e. "ditch chews haze hum thin" translates to "did you say something"). The app is similar to the playing card game Mad Gab. The game trended in mid-April of 2020, and several videos in which people guessed incorrectly grew popular on social media.

Origin

Guess The Gibberish was created by Microsoft intern Christopher Lu and launched April 14th, 2020.^[1] Over the following week, the filter gained over 1 billion impressions.

Spread

The filter began spreading on Instagram and TikTok thanks in part to several humorous failures to guess the gibberish correctly. Examples include a video by TikTok user @iemtedy, who incorrectly guessed "Dis pussy doe" for a clue whose answer was Despacito. His video gained over 2.5 million likes (shown below, top). User lgquinny posted a video in which she broke into laughter at the clue "meat whom hoove mint" before realizing the answer was "MeToo Movement," gaining over 518,000 likes (shown below, bottom).

The filter and the numerous humorous videos it helped generate were covered by Distractify^[2] and Junkee.^[3] User @thybloodofkaren posted a video proving a theorem that saying the gibberish in the voice of Borat would help solve all the gibberish, gaining over 127,000 likes (shown below).

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