Tuesday 24 May 2022 03:34 AM Sydney's original eshays send a sinister warning to the rich kids stealing ... trends now

Although thought to be a recent phenomenon, the eshays started out some 40 years ago in Adelaide when they were known as earchers or searchers.

In the 90s, the culture spread to some of the poorer areas of Melbourne and Sydney, especially around inner city suburbs like Waterloo, where the use of pig latin - reversing the order of syllables and adding extra syllables to create a mock new language - earned them the name 'adlays', pig latin for 'lads'.

In recent years, the craze took off in Sydney's west, where the name evolved from adlays to eshays, pig latin for 'yes'.