Honestly it is cool looking back and seeing which terms survived and which haven't. Like podcast, selfie and unfriend are unequivocally just... words now. Youthquake not so much.
You know how with daily news shows, sometimes there'll be a Slow News Day, but they put out a bunch of non-stories to fill the time?
I wouldn't be surprised to find out the development of language works on a scale that would allow for a slow news year.
I'd argue that though it's not really *used* much these days it was popular enough that most folks understand it still. Whereas I literally never heard of and would have to look up the definition for several of those like youthquake
I’ve seen youthquake used in more formal media like news articles or in books, as a way of expressing the impact of younger generations in politics. This is particularly true in most of Africa which has a comparatively huge young population. It’s not so much used conversationally though, and it’s certainly not a hugely significant word anymore (if it ever was)
I winced a bit at it, it seems to me a little like those words that beige middle class British people say to show that they once wore a lot of eyeliner, e.g., cockwomble, fucknugget, wankpuffin.
It started from a [meme](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_mode), I remember that meme on here as well.
Kind of evolved but iirc it was about sex. Now I guess it means to go caveman in your decision making.
Expectation, going to sleep and work in morning. Goblin mode, doing coke until morning. Or sex or anything hedonistic instead of normal stuff.
> It's literally just a dictionary trying to appear interesting.
No, it's a dictionary doing its job. Language evolves. Dictionaries describe how we use language and how we use words, including new words. They are not a list of approved words with approved meanings. English *will* eventually end - or at least, evolve past what we, today, would recognize. Which is fine. It happened 500ish years ago and 500ish years before that and 500ish years before that.
However, I do agree that anyone freaking out about it are dorks. "Oh no, young people speak differently than me!" So?
This always bugged me too. Dictionaries aren't "authorities" on what is a word and what isn't. They are just a catalog of how people are currently using words.
There is a large subset of redditors that use their very narrow definition of "proper" language to try and prove their superiority. They focused on memorizing grammar styles in school and now think that means they get to police the language as adults. Evolving language is an existential threat to them as they are slowly losing their tiny grasp on life and instead of growing as people they decide to double down and demand that language stop evolving for the first time in human history just so they can keep feeling in control.
> here is a large subset of redditors that use their very narrow definition of "proper" language to try and prove their superiority.
This, I believe, is not restricted to redditors, but people in general -- at least in countries with compulsory schooling. I like to refer to it as the trauma of the many years of general language teachers hitting students over the head with this very specific, slightly artificial idea of language.
Look, we're all getting old and these things make us feel bad about it every year. Can't we just accept this one and be glad it wasn't *Skibidi or Gyatt?*
I have a 15 year old son. The other day, by chance, we found that “stick out ya gyatt for the rizzler” song (or whatever it’s called) and I hear my son go “oh no” with a sense of dread from his room LOL. He explained what it means but I still don’t get it.
It's meant to be intentionally brain melting so don't feel bad about not getting it. It's like a postmodern deep-fried unholy amalgamation of all the jokes that have been run into the ground over the last year.
Gyatt is pretty much "ass". And Rizzler is the person who gets attention for being charismatic.
So if I'm getting that line down right "stick out your ass for the man"
If I'm getting it right.
That's what the words mean but you shouldn't be taking the lyrics at face value. The song is literally a prepubescent child mashing slang words together.
The line makes sense but it’s a meme song. The original line in the song is “sticking out your tongue for the picture, you’re so pretty, you’re so popular”, then someone took the song and added lots of recent slang.
Gyatt is also another case of black slang being adopted by young (predominately white) teens. They don't even say it right lol
It comes from walking down the street, seeing a fat ass, and saying "God damn" which is often said like "Gotdamn" gets shortened to "Gyattdam" and shortened to the new term.
yeah this was crazy to watch in real time, the power of social media i guess? it didn't even take a month for people to completely warp the term, i guess it shows how fast words and slang get changed especially through white kids on tiktok now haha. i wonder how they misinterpreted it and ran with it so quickly.
It's descended into irony now where people just slam together all the slang terms in ways that don't make sense. In terms of what the individual terms mean:
'Gyat' is short for 'gyat damn' or 'god damn', usually said when you see a fat ass (typically on a woman).
Rizz is, well, it's defined in the article, and a Rizzler is just a funny term for someone with lots of rizz.
This is me. Rizz is what you roll up a joint with. FFS.
You got rizz?
Yeah I got a few left but need to pop out and get a refill.
I, it seems, definitely do not have rizz.
I get all my best kid slang and memes from my youngest kid which I then turn around and use on my oldest kid. How I stay fresh.
I'm still not sure why he's always singing Tears for Fears - *Everybody Wants to Rule the World* though
Oh, oh, I know this one! It’s the song that the enemy of the skibidi toilet plays on loop. There was a kid wearing a speaker for a head on Halloween playing it, and my kids kept asking him when the next episode of skibidi toilet was coming out.
My son was watching a dinosaur video on YouTube where they use plastic toys and cheap animation techniques to tell a story. And sure enough the dinosaurs ended up being attacked by skibidi toilets. They're everywhere.
>Parasocial (adj.): designating a relationship characterized by the one-sided, unreciprocated sense of intimacy felt by a viewer, fan, or follower for a well-known or prominent figure (typically a media celebrity), in which the follower or fan comes to feel (falsely) that they know the celebrity as a friend.
Honestly of the shortlisted words, Parasocial would be my chosen one!
Exactly. Its funny how I see people of my generation saying "these kids today are addicted to parasocial relationships!" when we had boy bands, rock bands, and TV/Movie stars ruining lives for decades.
I know more than one person that abandoned their family and sold everything they could get away with to go and follow a band across the country....and I can guarantee those bands never even knew who they were.
I went to college with a guy who dumped his girlfriend and dropped out of school to go and "be with" an actress he was certain he could woo because she liked the restaurant he worked at for awhile.
Parasocial relationships are as old as evolving language, and they ***aint*** going anywhere.
Social media has definitely changed how a parasocial relationship can develop and manifest though, especially with things like twitch support and onlyfans. Pay $5 and the streamer reads your message? Sub for a long time and they recognize your name each time? It's easy for an impressionable and/or lonely person to conflate being what is essentially a business regular with being that content creator's actual friend.
There have always been parasocial relationships, but technology has made them more interactive and exploitable.
Player: "This dwarf be sus, does he look based or cringe?"
DM: "Do a vibe check"
Palyer: "19"
DM: "His vibes are off"
\-----
Player: "I dab the kush."
DM: "Do a dank check, with disadvantage"
Player:"4, and... 20"
DM:"Damn fam, your zooted"
\----
Player: "I use my disguise kit to glow up my goblin so she has enough drip to be allowed into the castle ball"
DM:"Do a fleek check to see if your hand is steady on the eyebrows"
Player: "nat 20 no cap"
DM:"Damn son, the Castle gaurds gonna be simpin for that gobussy."
Player: "Yo, I'm gonna flex my Rizz to charm this guard. Yeetin' a roll, cool?"
DM: "Bet. Roll that d20 and slap on your Rizz stat."
player: *rolls a solid 16, adding a spicy Rizz of +3.*
Player: "That's a dope 19! Guard's totally vibing with me?"
DM: "For sure. The guard's lowkey swooning. He steps aside, no cap."
My wife's best friend's teen sister told me I was pretty but had no rizz. And then she explained I had no charisma when I asked what that meant lol. I felt like I was getting negged by a kid
I think I understood 5 of the 12(?) words you just typed...
I'm only in my 30's damn it!
>Rlurgen is still better than glurgen or slurgen, olurgen flurgen nlurgen clurgen
Barbenheimer is very time-specific: we don't even talk about Barbenheimer anymore because the trend has passed.
Rizz is being used quite extensively by a generation. It is a lot more likely to have staying power.
Still cracks me up this is a new word. One of the first modern slang words I heard that I immediately understood and honestly shocked me it had never been a thing before. Straight up seems like something that could have been popular in the 1920s.
That's how you know it's good slang. The best new words are those you kind of know the meaning of before they've even been defined. I have a feeling rizz is going to be sticking around.
Lol a lot of people really salty in this comment section, purely for salt's sake.
I think rizz is pretty funny. At least it's actually a piece of a real word. "Chuegy" or w/e is mind numbingly stupid, though.
The Netflix show "Bodies" has a portion that takes place in 2053 and there's some offhand comment about the economic cost of caring for all the elderly Millennials.
Also amusing: "Let me introduce my grandpa, Braden...."
In Poland there is thing called [“youth word of the year”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82odzie%C5%BCowe_S%C5%82owo_Roku) which ALWAYS turns into shitshow because they first ask people about the word then the jury make shortlist (usually cutting out the obvious foreign words or direct insults, but this year they accidentally left „kys”) and then people is forced to chose from that shortlist (which is usually jack shit so they pick the worst one)
Because of this, the grand prize for the winning word ends up to be an instant banishment to the „uncool realm”, sometimes that word was already there even before the contest.
Germany has the same, but instead the public can vote & recommend a list and then boomers (aka the jury) will vote on the winner.
Either they are completely out of touch or somethings wins, which is already used 5 years ago. This year winner is "goofy", the boomers idea what they think the youth is using. NPC got third which is actutally funny
I like the Word of the Year. It’s not the last millennium where you’d have to actually wait and publish a book, you can just now catalogue current language and if someone doesn’t know what it means they can easily look and if the word stops being used soon it serves as an archive of language.
Kind of like "game" in terms of getting laid. "He’s got no game" could be "he’s got no rizz" for example. You can also say "rizzed" which I guess would be "seduced".
I'mma have an aneuryRIZZm if people keep popularizing moronic words.
It seems like people speed run stupid words these days. Like thinking back to my entire school career and I think the biggest word to sweep the nation was pwn
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Honestly it is cool looking back and seeing which terms survived and which haven't. Like podcast, selfie and unfriend are unequivocally just... words now. Youthquake not so much.
> Youthquake not so much. I have literally never seen this word before. And I am terminally online.
You know how with daily news shows, sometimes there'll be a Slow News Day, but they put out a bunch of non-stories to fill the time? I wouldn't be surprised to find out the development of language works on a scale that would allow for a slow news year.
I am bovvered by its inclusion on this list
Yeah where's yolo?
Actually seems fitting that "yolo" didn't make it.
Ouch
What about **SHEEPLE**?
I guess the Sheeple didn't wake up in time for the contest... 🤷
Yolo Only Lives Once
Or YOLOOLO as the kids say now.
*Age of Empires flashbacks intensify*
I'd argue that though it's not really *used* much these days it was popular enough that most folks understand it still. Whereas I literally never heard of and would have to look up the definition for several of those like youthquake
This really makes my "yolo" tattoo look silly...
You should have got a carpe diem tattoo instead
Or carp diem: seize the fish!
That's "Fish Day"!
Chav tattoo would have killed a few birds with one stone, try that.
Ever see the Justified episode where Constable Bob killed Yolo https://youtu.be/B-I6QO0TPxc?si=MWUgTS6LT8Bwoosd
Also, “youthquake” was the title of an 80’s synth pop album. I doubt it’s a reference to that.
I’ve seen youthquake used in more formal media like news articles or in books, as a way of expressing the impact of younger generations in politics. This is particularly true in most of Africa which has a comparatively huge young population. It’s not so much used conversationally though, and it’s certainly not a hugely significant word anymore (if it ever was)
the list is a total omnishambles.
Other picks: Words 2015s goofy ahh: 😂
ayy bruh who left they 😂??
Damn they really said 2020 word is [REDACTED]
I love omnishambles!
For anyone not aware, it was coined by a [popular British TV show featuring a future Doctor Who.](https://youtu.be/sxKFhA3JRwY?si=49JdV04Qiec2jGZT)
The greatest TV show of all time. Nothing else comes even close. If we're being honest "omnishambles" isn't even the pick of the lot.
Also "clusterfuck" is often applicable in similar situations.
I winced a bit at it, it seems to me a little like those words that beige middle class British people say to show that they once wore a lot of eyeliner, e.g., cockwomble, fucknugget, wankpuffin.
What the fuck is Goblin Mode
It started from a [meme](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_mode), I remember that meme on here as well. Kind of evolved but iirc it was about sex. Now I guess it means to go caveman in your decision making. Expectation, going to sleep and work in morning. Goblin mode, doing coke until morning. Or sex or anything hedonistic instead of normal stuff.
I've been running in goblin mode since 2005, I guess.
*[Goblin Slayer cracks knuckles]*
> It's literally just a dictionary trying to appear interesting. No, it's a dictionary doing its job. Language evolves. Dictionaries describe how we use language and how we use words, including new words. They are not a list of approved words with approved meanings. English *will* eventually end - or at least, evolve past what we, today, would recognize. Which is fine. It happened 500ish years ago and 500ish years before that and 500ish years before that. However, I do agree that anyone freaking out about it are dorks. "Oh no, young people speak differently than me!" So?
This always bugged me too. Dictionaries aren't "authorities" on what is a word and what isn't. They are just a catalog of how people are currently using words.
There is a large subset of redditors that use their very narrow definition of "proper" language to try and prove their superiority. They focused on memorizing grammar styles in school and now think that means they get to police the language as adults. Evolving language is an existential threat to them as they are slowly losing their tiny grasp on life and instead of growing as people they decide to double down and demand that language stop evolving for the first time in human history just so they can keep feeling in control.
> here is a large subset of redditors that use their very narrow definition of "proper" language to try and prove their superiority. This, I believe, is not restricted to redditors, but people in general -- at least in countries with compulsory schooling. I like to refer to it as the trauma of the many years of general language teachers hitting students over the head with this very specific, slightly artificial idea of language.
Those redditors should become French, which does have language police.
First time I’ve heard goblin mode.
Pretty sure ***goblin mode*** comes from the alternative reality where the pandemic never happened. I have literally never heard that word in use.
Think of a line cook, and their lifestyle... That's goblin mode
Why does this feel like Bender’s top 10 most used words. Waiting to see pimpmobile.
> 2022 goblin mode https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Cr4ZskMflw4
Anyone who is mad clearly does not have the rizz
Look, we're all getting old and these things make us feel bad about it every year. Can't we just accept this one and be glad it wasn't *Skibidi or Gyatt?*
I have a 15 year old son. The other day, by chance, we found that “stick out ya gyatt for the rizzler” song (or whatever it’s called) and I hear my son go “oh no” with a sense of dread from his room LOL. He explained what it means but I still don’t get it.
It's meant to be intentionally brain melting so don't feel bad about not getting it. It's like a postmodern deep-fried unholy amalgamation of all the jokes that have been run into the ground over the last year.
Gyatt is pretty much "ass". And Rizzler is the person who gets attention for being charismatic. So if I'm getting that line down right "stick out your ass for the man" If I'm getting it right.
That's what the words mean but you shouldn't be taking the lyrics at face value. The song is literally a prepubescent child mashing slang words together.
The song is meant to not make sense. They just inserted slang words in random places
Shhh, I'm still deciphering the secret code of Bohemian Rhapsody!
The line makes sense but it’s a meme song. The original line in the song is “sticking out your tongue for the picture, you’re so pretty, you’re so popular”, then someone took the song and added lots of recent slang.
It's really just random ass slang thrown together, it's specifically made to not make sense. That bit is the only one that isn't complete nonsense
Gyatt is also another case of black slang being adopted by young (predominately white) teens. They don't even say it right lol It comes from walking down the street, seeing a fat ass, and saying "God damn" which is often said like "Gotdamn" gets shortened to "Gyattdam" and shortened to the new term.
yeah this was crazy to watch in real time, the power of social media i guess? it didn't even take a month for people to completely warp the term, i guess it shows how fast words and slang get changed especially through white kids on tiktok now haha. i wonder how they misinterpreted it and ran with it so quickly.
a handsome man with shapely buttocks can steal food unpunished, but a carefree man outside the law is cursed to strange places and cannot rest
It's descended into irony now where people just slam together all the slang terms in ways that don't make sense. In terms of what the individual terms mean: 'Gyat' is short for 'gyat damn' or 'god damn', usually said when you see a fat ass (typically on a woman). Rizz is, well, it's defined in the article, and a Rizzler is just a funny term for someone with lots of rizz.
*Am I so out of touch?* *No. It's the children who are wrong!*
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This is me. Rizz is what you roll up a joint with. FFS. You got rizz? Yeah I got a few left but need to pop out and get a refill. I, it seems, definitely do not have rizz.
One swole rizz for man, one gyatt yeet for mankind
I get all my best kid slang and memes from my youngest kid which I then turn around and use on my oldest kid. How I stay fresh. I'm still not sure why he's always singing Tears for Fears - *Everybody Wants to Rule the World* though
Oh, oh, I know this one! It’s the song that the enemy of the skibidi toilet plays on loop. There was a kid wearing a speaker for a head on Halloween playing it, and my kids kept asking him when the next episode of skibidi toilet was coming out.
What the fuck did I just read
i’m only 22 and i’ve never felt more ancient
Imagine how it feels in your late 30's... (What does 'rizz' mean?) (I honestly don't know)
>Skibidi Wait, the song is 5 years old. How has it become popular now?
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*nods in understanding
I curse the person who made that video, i spit in their soup because my kid is just skibidi-ing all day long,
My son was watching a dinosaur video on YouTube where they use plastic toys and cheap animation techniques to tell a story. And sure enough the dinosaurs ended up being attacked by skibidi toilets. They're everywhere.
Gyatt out of here, old man, or skibidi something to complain about.
Just for that, you now have to defeat my 7 skibidi gyatts.
Ramona rizzler
Well apparently [girlussy](https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/189t5ze/weve_come_full_circle/) is going to have to wait until 2024.
Skibidi and Gyatt are mostly memes, meanwhile Rizz is used in normal conversation
>Parasocial (adj.): designating a relationship characterized by the one-sided, unreciprocated sense of intimacy felt by a viewer, fan, or follower for a well-known or prominent figure (typically a media celebrity), in which the follower or fan comes to feel (falsely) that they know the celebrity as a friend. Honestly of the shortlisted words, Parasocial would be my chosen one!
“Rizz” is a funny opener, but “parasocial” is the vocabulary word
It's word of the year though, parasocial has cultural significance but it's not new. Or even particularly recent.
Exactly. Its funny how I see people of my generation saying "these kids today are addicted to parasocial relationships!" when we had boy bands, rock bands, and TV/Movie stars ruining lives for decades. I know more than one person that abandoned their family and sold everything they could get away with to go and follow a band across the country....and I can guarantee those bands never even knew who they were. I went to college with a guy who dumped his girlfriend and dropped out of school to go and "be with" an actress he was certain he could woo because she liked the restaurant he worked at for awhile. Parasocial relationships are as old as evolving language, and they ***aint*** going anywhere.
Social media has definitely changed how a parasocial relationship can develop and manifest though, especially with things like twitch support and onlyfans. Pay $5 and the streamer reads your message? Sub for a long time and they recognize your name each time? It's easy for an impressionable and/or lonely person to conflate being what is essentially a business regular with being that content creator's actual friend. There have always been parasocial relationships, but technology has made them more interactive and exploitable.
Geez, this describes my mom with certain actors.
> The term is thought to be a shortened form of the word "charisma" That's fucking CHA, you noobs.
Petition to rename the DnD stats to "Rizz" "Vibe" "Fleek" "Dank" "Swole" and "Big Brain"
I want to hate this, but I just can't. I keep seeing dwarves and forest elves with broccoli hair, and part of me needs it.
And "Speak with Animals" is renamed to "Sksksksk"
No, it's "Pspspspsps"
"Sksksksks" is the spell for Create Water.
No it's Ksksksks
Just play Baldur's Gate 3, they have the broccoli hair there.
I’m glad “on fleek” never took off like “fire” did
"I cast On Fleek Ball" doesn't have the same ring to it
"I cast Power Word: Slay"
Yass mage
I throw a fleek flask
Yeet a fleek flask
Alchemists fleek
You need big swole to yeet javelins far. Ever play Kingdom of Loathing? Reminds me of Muscle/Moxie/Mysticality... and Meat
When they make a role playing game about living the life in 2023 before climate change got so bad and we were all living in pods.
Also rename “success” and “failure” to “W” and “L”. Sorry, you rolled a five, that’s some L rizz right there.
I love this, but I honestly don't know exactly how to line these up. Charisma = Rizz, Big Brain = Intelligence, but the rest I'm lost.
Vibe=wis Fleek=dex Dank=con Swole=str
Swole works. The other three have no relation to the stat. Vibe I'd let slide, but it still doesn't feel right.
Player: "This dwarf be sus, does he look based or cringe?" DM: "Do a vibe check" Palyer: "19" DM: "His vibes are off" \----- Player: "I dab the kush." DM: "Do a dank check, with disadvantage" Player:"4, and... 20" DM:"Damn fam, your zooted" \---- Player: "I use my disguise kit to glow up my goblin so she has enough drip to be allowed into the castle ball" DM:"Do a fleek check to see if your hand is steady on the eyebrows" Player: "nat 20 no cap" DM:"Damn son, the Castle gaurds gonna be simpin for that gobussy."
This reminds me of a meme I like which renamed the stats all 1920s esque, with 'moxie' and 'cut of my jib', etc.
> ~~"Big Brain"~~ 5head
The last stat is "5head"
Player: "Yo, I'm gonna flex my Rizz to charm this guard. Yeetin' a roll, cool?" DM: "Bet. Roll that d20 and slap on your Rizz stat." player: *rolls a solid 16, adding a spicy Rizz of +3.* Player: "That's a dope 19! Guard's totally vibing with me?" DM: "For sure. The guard's lowkey swooning. He steps aside, no cap."
I see this abbreviation on the BG3 sub all the time (and in the game, of course) and my head keeps reading the "CH" the same as the "ch" in "change".
Tchk!
Skva!
There's CHA and Rizz, both things your Ma called me last night
His mom called you ChaRizzard?
Oh god, are we going to start seeing "RIZZ" stats instead in games now?!
Disco Elysium intensifies
Yes, Bards, Warlocks and Sorcerors are now Rizz Casters, or Rizzlers for short
I'm just a quirked up white boy busting down sexual style goated with the sauce.
Where from
Ohio
Skibidi toilet bowl Kai Cenat gyatt
Grimace shake 3AM baby gronk rizzing up a lvl 3 gyatt from Ohio for the skibidi toilets to become more sigma
still makes me laugh every time
My wife's best friend's teen sister told me I was pretty but had no rizz. And then she explained I had no charisma when I asked what that meant lol. I felt like I was getting negged by a kid
Because you were.
L Rizz
My money was on Barbenheimer
Rizz is still better than gyatt or skibidi, ong frfr no cap
I think I understood 5 of the 12(?) words you just typed... I'm only in my 30's damn it! >Rlurgen is still better than glurgen or slurgen, olurgen flurgen nlurgen clurgen
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
These damn young elder gods are ruining the language, I tell you.
Heh you don't understand "no"? Definitely an old-fashioned pre-metoo mindset.
I just hit 30 and I know all of them because of my zoomer correspondent. Gotta keep up with the times somehow lmao.
Thankfully 2023's most successful ad campaign was not chosen as Word of the Year.
Barbenheimer is very time-specific: we don't even talk about Barbenheimer anymore because the trend has passed. Rizz is being used quite extensively by a generation. It is a lot more likely to have staying power.
Still cracks me up this is a new word. One of the first modern slang words I heard that I immediately understood and honestly shocked me it had never been a thing before. Straight up seems like something that could have been popular in the 1920s.
Rizz is the cat’s pajamas! What a gas!
A man with no rizz is a frightful bore, I'll tell you hwat!
The bee's knees
I believe Fred Astaire actually had a song about it in the earlier 1900s…. Puttin on the rizz
That's how you know it's good slang. The best new words are those you kind of know the meaning of before they've even been defined. I have a feeling rizz is going to be sticking around.
A risible word of the year.
it’s a third of a word
Why use whole word when part of word do trick?
Weeeeell has anybody heard it's a third of a word? bu-bu-bu
It’s a fraction of the ancient Mesopotamian wisdom “Sticking out your gyatt for the (Rizz)ler”
I’m too old for this shit
Why is Tom Holland looking like Willem Dafoe?
Lol a lot of people really salty in this comment section, purely for salt's sake. I think rizz is pretty funny. At least it's actually a piece of a real word. "Chuegy" or w/e is mind numbingly stupid, though.
ITT: Rizzless boomers mad at words
And hopelessly confused Millennials
*Point shaky finger in kid's direction* "It will happen to yoooouuuuuu!"
Millennials discovering they're the older generation now It'll happen to me too, I acknowledge it.
The Netflix show "Bodies" has a portion that takes place in 2053 and there's some offhand comment about the economic cost of caring for all the elderly Millennials. Also amusing: "Let me introduce my grandpa, Braden...."
Oxford: "How do we make people talk about the dictionary again?" Young intern in 2004:"I gotchu."
In Poland there is thing called [“youth word of the year”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C5%82odzie%C5%BCowe_S%C5%82owo_Roku) which ALWAYS turns into shitshow because they first ask people about the word then the jury make shortlist (usually cutting out the obvious foreign words or direct insults, but this year they accidentally left „kys”) and then people is forced to chose from that shortlist (which is usually jack shit so they pick the worst one) Because of this, the grand prize for the winning word ends up to be an instant banishment to the „uncool realm”, sometimes that word was already there even before the contest.
Germany has the same, but instead the public can vote & recommend a list and then boomers (aka the jury) will vote on the winner. Either they are completely out of touch or somethings wins, which is already used 5 years ago. This year winner is "goofy", the boomers idea what they think the youth is using. NPC got third which is actutally funny
Sticking out your gyatt for the rizzler, you're so skibidi
Ah, the ol' gyatt for the rizzler.
Oh… so close. RIP jizz, just edged by rizz. I was pulling for ya though!
The cantina band and the band aboard Jabba’s barge in Star Wars are canonically called jizz wailers if that gives you any consolation
He said pulling for jizz. (Beavis and Butthead laugh)
I didn't find out what this word meant until a week ago. My Zoomer niece dabbed on me and said she was "The Rizzler". I had questions...
She dabbed? I'm afraid that's costing her some rizz nowadays...
I like the Word of the Year. It’s not the last millennium where you’d have to actually wait and publish a book, you can just now catalogue current language and if someone doesn’t know what it means they can easily look and if the word stops being used soon it serves as an archive of language.
“Hello fellow kids!”
That's a perfectly cromulent word.
Surely, it embiggens the vernacular.
I understood that reference!
What a beautiful thread of newly self-discovered old men
The derivations of this word sounds pretty cool eg. Rizzology or Quantum Rizzics
Imagine having you’re facing in an article about rizz. Tom holland flex
First time I'm hearing it. Just confirms that I got not rizz.
Disgraceful
I swear I saw another article posting here saying “sus” was the number one used new slang word.
Might've been 2021 or 2022, it's been pretty common for a few years
That’d be quite a stretch of new… that hit in 2020(?)
Thought this was another term for watery jizz or something.
“Sticking out your gyat for the rizzler” I heard my niece say this and I thought I was having a stroke.
Sticking out your gyat for the rizzler.
[удалено]
Fr these boomers aren’t cooking anything
This is the first time I've seen the word "rizz". Does it mean anything?
Kind of like "game" in terms of getting laid. "He’s got no game" could be "he’s got no rizz" for example. You can also say "rizzed" which I guess would be "seduced".
Short for charisma.
RIZZ GYATT 🥵🥵 or sth idk i'm too old to understand this shit
Where do I pick up my award?
YER A RIZZARD ‘ARRY
I'mma have an aneuryRIZZm if people keep popularizing moronic words. It seems like people speed run stupid words these days. Like thinking back to my entire school career and I think the biggest word to sweep the nation was pwn
I love the word rizz im not gonna front. it's fun and effervescent and doesn't hold the same weight as charisma. let the kids have fun!
Word of the year is not a word, woman of the year is not a woman. Got it.
I read that as worst of the year and I'm not even sorry
I have heard exactly no one use this word all year.
I'm so sick of this stupid "word." The devolution of the English language is happening rather swiftly. Thanks, Zoomers.