# Shooketh Shooketh is a slang catchphrase meaning intensely shocked, coined by YouTube comedian Christine Sydelko in a March 2017 vlog about a Boston Market encounter[1]. The mock Shakespearean past-tense of shook jumped from her channel to Twitter within days, becoming shorthand for celebrity-induced disbelief. ## Origin The catchphrase came from a March 2, 2017 vlog titled "CRAZY FAN ATTACKED HER!!" uploaded to the Elijah & Christine YouTube channel run by comedians Christine Sydelko and Elijah Daniel[3]. Around the 31-second mark, a visibly rattled Sydelko tells Daniel "I am shooketh" while recounting how a Boston Market cashier had greeted her by name without her ever having handed it over, which she framed as proof she could no longer safely eat there[1]. Sydelko delivered the line off the cuff as part of the story rather than as a scripted bit, and the clip circulated fast enough that a re-upload by user Mario B. on March 6, 2017 titled "I am shooketh!" pulled in hundreds of thousands of views on its own[4]. - **Platform:** YouTube (origin) / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Christine Sydelko - **Date:** 2017 ## Overview Shooketh, often phrased as "I am shooketh," is a mock-Shakespearean intensifier of the slang word shook, meaning stunned or astonished beyond words[1]. The joke is grammatical overkill: taking an already-emphatic Black English usage of shook and slapping on an Early Modern English -eth ending for extra flourish. Urban Dictionary bluntly defined it as "Beyond Shook" and "an indescribable amount of shookness"[2]. The phrase is almost always used with hyperbolic first-person framing, typically "I am shooketh" or "y'all, I'm shooketh," attached to a screenshot, a celebrity photo, or a piece of gossip that the poster claims has left them reeling[3]. On Twitter it became a stock reaction to K-pop idols, Beyoncé sightings, plot twists, and any content the user wanted to flag as too much to handle[1]. ## How It Spread Within nine days of the original upload, "shooketh" had a March 11, 2017 Urban Dictionary entry defining it as "Beyond Shook"[2]. Follow-up entries piled on with variants like "a large amount of shook" and "an indescribable amount of shookness," showing the word was already being workshopped by users rather than just quoted[2]. By October 2017 the original Elijah & Christine video had crossed 890,000 views and the Mario B. mirror had 648,000[1]. Sensing the traction, Sydelko and Daniel recorded a track called "shooketh" featuring rapper lil aaron, which pulled in over 950,000 views and cemented the phrase as a running bit tied to their channel[1]. Twitter did most of the work carrying shooketh out of stan-YouTube and into general slang. Users like @kongvenient hit 150-plus retweets tweeting "shooketh" at a Korean pop star on September 30, 2017, and @coltonleb used it as a Beyoncé reaction, patterns that made it a default caption for celebrity overload[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Shooketh? Shooketh is an internet catchphrase and slang intensifier of "shook," usually delivered as "I am shooketh" to signal extreme shock or astonishment[1]. ### Where did Shooketh come from? It came from a March 2, 2017 vlog on the Elijah & Christine YouTube channel, where comedian Christine Sydelko said "I am shooketh" while telling a story about a Boston Market cashier recognizing her[3]. ### What does Shooketh mean? It means being past the point of shook, a mock-Shakespearean way of saying you are stunned beyond words; Urban Dictionary glosses it as "Beyond Shook"[2]. ### How do you use Shooketh? It's typically posted in first person, as "I am shooketh" or "y'all, I'm shooketh," attached to celebrity news, K-pop moments, or any content the poster wants to flag as overwhelming[1]. ### Is Shooketh still popular? It peaked with Sydelko and Daniel's 2017 clip and follow-up song, which together pulled millions of views, and is still used online as a classic stan-Twitter reaction rather than a fresh trend[1]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TE9DYDtPKI]() 2. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shooketh]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shooketh]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDFNj4Y-Q8]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/shooketh Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library