‘Skibidi, sigma, gyat’: Millennial parents struggle to decode Generation Alpha slangs
Live MintThe rise of Gen Alpha slangs has left parents and older adults confused. Terms like “sigma”, which meaning cool, also stirred the internet recently after “Sigma boy” song by young Russian bloggers went viral on TikTok. While “gyat" means someone attractive, “gigachad" refers to a person who is exceptionally masculine, physically attractive, and muscular and “rizz” implies charisma. Millennial parents struggle to decode Gen Alpha slangs Baffled with the new terminology, many parents shared their experience with The Wall Street Journal. Alleging that vocabulary shift has become harder for parents to keep a track, Kim said, "This is a whole vocabulary that we’re trying to decode.” Recalling an incident, Kim’s 10-year-old niece named Avery called her uncle “omega,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
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