FANUM TAX

What Does Fanum Tax Mean?

The Quick Answer

Fanum Tax means "Obligatory Sharing of Food."

The term "Fanum tax" went crazily viral on social media in 2023, but almost everyone was completely lost as to what it actually means! The phrase was inspired by an incident that occurred during a Twitch stream by popular content creator Kai Cenat, in December 2022. Fanum, another popular creator, burst into the room where Kai was streaming and snatched a plate of cookies out of his hand. Since then, the "Fanum tax’" has been a regular feature of Kai’s streams and the phrase is used anytime someone wants to steal someone else's food.

The origin of the idea of stealing someone's food being referred to as a tax comes from the custom in some families and groups of friends, of a parent, older sibling, or senior member of the group, demanding a share of what anyone else was eating and claiming it as a fair tax.

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When I write Fanum Tax, I mean this:

"Fanum tax" went viral on social media in 2023.

Summary of Key Points

We have summarized the key points in the table below:

Fanum Tax
Definition:	Obligatory Sharing of Food
Type:	Word
Guessability:	4: Difficult to guess
Typical Users:	Adults and Teenagers

An Academic Look at Fanum Tax

Fanum Tax is a noun phrase. A noun phrase is a phrase that plays the role of a noun. The head word in a noun phrase will be a noun or a pronoun. (In this case, the head word is the noun tax.)