Are you gigachad? Gen Alpha slangs are taking over the internet, leaving millennials scrambling

The world of Gen Alpha slang has become a maze of new phrases that is leaving parents and adults struggling to keep up. From the viral “slay” to “rizz” and “sigma,” today’s youth have created an entire vocabulary that even their own parents find baffling. “This is a whole vocabulary that we’re trying to decode.” For example, Kim’s niece, Avery, a 10-year-old trendsetter, referred to a gift of colored pencils as “slay,” a term that Kim correctly deduced meant “good.” However, Avery’s response to her husband’s claim of having “rizz,” or charisma, was less kind. Kim recalled that Avery gave him a look of disapproval, as she humorously accused him of lacking “rizz.” To make matters more complicated, Avery also called her uncle “omega,” which, according to her, means “the lowest rate you can get.” As a result, Kim was branded as “beta,” a label that denoted a lower status than her husband’s alleged “alpha” position in their family dynamic. Despite his best efforts, Murray admits that understanding this slang has become “kind of like a foreign language.” Some parents, like startup founder Carleen Haylett, have given up altogether on understanding the ever-changing slang.