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[โ€“] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 13 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Maybe I've just been hanging out in the wrong places but I have never heard any of these terms used except by previous generations mocking what they think gen alpha is like

[โ€“] rozwud@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I haven't heard rizz, but working in an elementary school, sus has been around for awhile, and skibidi was just starting to get frequent enough to be super annoying towards the end of the school year.

[โ€“] twei@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Rizz is basically just short for charisma

[โ€“] queermunist@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Or 'game' for the millennial crowd.

[โ€“] rozwud@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago
[โ€“] MBM@lemmings.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The other day I heard a random (young) girl say "what the sigma" and I had trouble keeping it together

[โ€“] rozwud@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

Oh that one was was going on constantly the last month or so of school!