I am 51, so Gen-X, but I have been a skater, surfer, gamer and chronically online most of my life (BBS old schooler!). In other words, my speak has always included current terms which I use unironically. Except rizz. Rizz is just cringe AF.
There is no such thing as generational slang. There is just slang.
I’m gen-x and I am at the point where I don’t know if I say anything unironically any more.
(But you are spot on, slang is there, always, and it mutates as it is needed, but it isnt generational so much as sociopolitical and regional.)
Me after reading the article:
What boomer wrote this
Seriously. Can we stop this ridiculous obsession with “generational” comparisons, please, and the click bait that goes with it? Let’s instead start learning empathy and stop trying to force fit everything into an arbitrary category. Can we really not, collectively, as a species, grasp nuance and the eternally changing state of everything?
Probably not, but here’s to hoping.
nassim taleb calls it “over-platonification,” expecting everything to meet some platonic ideal. it is absolutely pervasive. this is another great example of it
TIL rizz is for chaRIZZma.
Nah, its for “grizzled tanman”. You oldies just don’t get it.
I keep a little bottle of tanning lotion under my pillow for the Tanman in case he comes to town.
Mr tanman bring me some rizz.
No it’s for sounding stupid, but that’s okay. Everybody’s an idiot - me, drunk Steve, everybody - kids are no exception.
I dont care for this, no cap
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Gen alpha? I thought rizz and ratio are gen z stuff
I’ve never heard a gen Z unironically use “rizz”
i’ll take ragebait content that everyone falls for for 100 alex
I visiting cringe article island and everyone there knew you
