They called it “Giving Tuesday.” This year, on Dec. In 2012, some kind folks decided that, as an antidote to the consumerism of Black Friday, the Tuesday after Thanksgiving should inspire people to donate to nonprofits. Let's stop embarrassing ourselves by bothering strangers and leave the rizz behind in 2022. I was already annoyed with those TikTok videos of guys doing man-on-the-street–style interviews in NYC, but the word has inspired more of these videos to pop up on my For You page. NYC Twitch streamers Kai Cenat, Silky, and Duke Dennis brought the term into the mainstream last year, when they watched each other go on virtual dates to see who had the most “game.”īut the term “rizz” has done more harm than good in 2022. Having “rizz” by definition means being able to attract people effortlessly, but having the “unspoken rizz” is the ability to just charm someone or multiple people with your presence alone, usually with a glance or body language. If you've been on TikTok this year, maybe you've seen or heard the word “rizz” either as a caption or hashtag under videos of a man trying to seduce another person in the cringiest way possible. Like, uh, okay, “this tweet just sold my brain to a bloated real estate developer and is turning it into a shoddily built windowless apartment complex populated exclusively by teenage TikTok influencers.” I don’t know! Mix it up a little! Get weird! Or at the very least - please, I’m begging you - stop saying this. You’d think angry anti-landlord Twitter would have done something about this by now, but I guess I have to do everything myself around here. I’m craving something weirder and more specific about the legal and economic realities of housing. We need “this video has squatter’s rights in my mind” or “this moment is now my landlord and I live in ITS head and rent is astronomical.” Not these, but I’m just spitballing. This one was cheeky at first, but it’s just gotten tired. Stop calling men who are misogynistic and anti-gay a “Top-G.” Let’s leave this term that never should have been created in 2022.
Comply or goodbye, it’s really simple.” (An actual quote by Andrew Tate.) “What a Top-G!” The toxic male influencer culture has started to make an impact in the wider world, especially as it relates to increased violence toward women and the LGBTQ+ community. An example: “I don’t argue with my girls - they are either complying and doing as I say or I disappear for a week. You’ll see this one typically on any video that belittles women or features an individual expressing their misogynist takes/support of the patriarchy. The descriptive word and condensed version of “Top-Gangster” was adopted from Andrew Tate, an influencer and former kickboxer, who created the label for himself and others who showcase their alpha-maleness. The term “Top-G” made its way to TikTok and into the vocabulary of young men on the app in late August - it continues to flood the comment section of most videos today. meeting on a Friday” as they could “Not a triple pandemic.” Combining wryness and a grammatical flexibility that enabled the speaker to disapprove of anything - whether it was just one word, a person’s actions, or a structural concept - it easily seeped into conversation during a year when it was possible, even necessary, to protest basically any circumstance, object, or idea. It didn’t matter how big the thing was: One could as easily say, “Not a 5 p.m.
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(Programmer Colin Morris has a very thorough post on the origins of the “ironic not” here, which includes a supercut of examples from TV shows like Real Housewives of Atlanta and RuPaul’s Drag Race.)īut “not this” was just so suited for the overall vibe of the year: being anti-everything. Like many other highly useful, gorgeous, and popular phrases, this method of refutation emerged years ago from AAVE, gained popularity in the queer community, and thereafter filtered out to every basic bitch ( me) who spent any time on the internet. To be clear, I take no issue with other people using the “not _” formulation. Not me using this phrase about 100 times a day.
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