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What does “fanum tax” mean?

Fanum tax is taking a bite of someone else’s food, especially a friend’s, as if it were a tax you were owed.

Where it comes from

Named for Fanum, a streamer in the AMP group, who made a running joke in 2022 and 2023 of “taxing” his friends’ food on stream. The phrase spread through TikTok in 2023 and became part of the “brain rot” vocabulary.

Fanum Tax in a sentence

• She reached for my fries. Fanum tax.
• There’s a fanum tax on anything left on the counter in this house.

Can you say it at work?

Among friends, yes; it is harmless. At the office lunch it needs a footnote.

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