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[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month 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€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Rizz is basically just short for charisma

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Or 'game' for the millennial crowd.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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