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I've spent a fair amount of time around alpha/Z lately and have never heard them say rizz or any of the other buzz slang. In fact, I usually hear these words from older people proclaiming they don't know what they mean and that the new generations are indecipherable based on some article they read.

The new stand out from the old with their new words and the old stand out from the new by saying they don't understand these (foolish) new words. People are quick to claim they do or don't understand to signal their alignment with one or the other but a lot of these words aren't even used out of this or some ironic context. At least not in real life speech.

That being said, as entertaining as rizz is, prompt and parasocial are monumentally more significant.



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