Learn Today's Teen Slang: Skibidi, Rizzler, Ohio
Generation Alpha is the name given to people born since the year 2010, and you won't be surprised to hear that these young people have developed slang words of their own.
Here are just a few of the terms that they're using online and in conversation.
This word actually has no clear meaning. It can be used as an adjective to mean cool, bad or dumb depending on the context, according to Urban Dictionary.
The word comes from a title of videos made on YouTube Shorts called Skibidi Toilet, and the hashtag on TikTok has been used more than 670,000 times.
Your favorite snack has just been "fanum taxed!" What does that mean? "Fanum tax" is the theft of food between friends. The term was made popular on TikTok but created by a Twitch user with more than 2.5 million followers called Fanum.
Fanum is known to enjoy eating and the term doesn't really mean stealing, but perhaps one friend taking a slice of pizza from another friend's plate — or just sharing food!
It's described as a "tax" because it's one person taking a small amount of something from another.
"Rizz" has become a commonly used slang term, even among older teens and young adults. It's thought to be short for "charisma" and means that a person has confidence and charm when flirting. A "rizzler" is someone who is good at that — they have lots of rizz.
The term "Ohio" is thought to have come from memes like "it's all Ohio" and "Only in Ohio" that have become popular in the last few years, according to the internet culture website The Daily Dot.
In more modern teen slang, the state of Ohio is used as a stand-in for anything that is weird or unexpected.
