Shidding
Shidding is the chat's preferred orthography for the bowel movement, first attested in the corpus on August 27, 2020 and recurring 340 times across the six-year archive as a steady thematic undercurrent.
Shidding
Shidding (alternate spellings: shid, shidder, shiddies) is the chat's preferred orthography for the bowel movement and its grammatical relatives. Its purpose, beyond humor, is to make explicit that the speaker is using a form of the word that has been deliberately softened — a one-letter retreat from the actual word that doubles as a form of in-group signaling. With 340 occurrences across the corpus the construction is one of the most stable pieces of chat-internal idiom, second only to the hoen family.
Etymology
The earliest attested occurrence is by Evan Bbbender on August 27, 2020:
"That's what I call my shiddies."
Kyle Derrick adopts the noun two weeks later ("What about shids?", September 9, 2020), and Daniel Miller coins what may be the corpus's first metaphysical extension the same day:
"Don't get me started on space shidding." — Daniel Miller, September 9, 2020
By October 22, 2020 Evan has produced the gerund ("I'm shidding") and by November 3, 2020 Kyle is reporting his pre-vote count ("Anyone else got the Election Day shids? I'm at 4.5 right now"). The full conjugation — shid (verb and noun), shidding (gerund), shidder (agent noun) — is in place within four months of the chat's founding.
The Kirk method era
Five years after Evan's "shiddies," the orthography acquired a doctrine. On January 29, 2026 at 17:58 UTC, Kyle Derrick posted a single message that produced both the Kirk method and the chat's most-quoted single use of shid:
"I do like the thought of Kirk having left shid in the toilet before getting Merced."
Matt replied seven minutes later with "The Kirk method apparently," establishing for the chat that shid was now load-bearing enough to anchor a named doctrine. See The Kirk Method and Charlie Kirk for the broader context.
Notable shids
- 2020-09-09 — Kyle Derrick: "What about shids?" — the noun's earliest documented appearance.
- 2020-09-09 — Daniel Miller: "Don't get me started on space shidding."
- 2020-10-02 — Kyle Derrick: "Anyone else edging a shid?"
- 2020-10-22 — Evan Bbbender: "I'm shidding" — first gerund.
- 2021-01-18 — Cullen Conway: "It's Dame Time every time he shids" — establishing the cross-pollination between shid and Matt's child Dame.
- 2026-01-29 — Kyle Derrick: "I do like the thought of Kirk having left shid in the toilet before getting Merced." (See The Kirk Method.)
- 2026-02-18 — Daniel Miller: "The toilets are pretty wild, they analyze your shid and piss for all kinds of health data."
- 2026-02-26 — Kyle Derrick: "I've shidded."
- 2026-04-01 — Kyle Derrick: "I've never shidded on a plane and I hope that doesn't ch age today."
- 2026-04-01 — Matt: "Are you a prolific plane shidder Dan?"
- 2026-04-23 — Cullen Conway (caption to a photo): "This dude is so stoked on his shid. Staring lovingly at it. Huge shid too." Kyle Derrick, in his most heartfelt critical engagement with the practice: "I'd be proud of a shid like that."