How the Rap Internet Ruled 2023
What language do teenagers speak? Parents, as always, seem to be at a loss. Last month, The New York Times published a helpful guide to the slang terms growing in popularity online. Words like “Sigma” (a stoic guy), “Gyat” (a nice butt), and “Rizz,” (basically “charisma”), topped the list, and most of the words seemed to emerge from platforms like Twitch and TikTok — terms like “Rizz,” which the Oxford English Dictionary named Word of the Year. “Rizz is a term that has boomed on social media,” Oxford Languages…