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The following is a list of slang that is used or popularized by Generation Z (Gen Z), generally those born between the late 1990s and early 2010s in the Western world. Generation Z slang differs from slang of prior generations. [1] [2] Ease of communication with the Internet facilitated the rapid proliferation of Gen Z slang. [2] [3] [4]
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, [1] [2] [3] is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years and the early 2010s as ending birth years, with the generation most frequently being defined as people born from 1997 to 2012. [4]
The term Internet Generation is in reference to the fact that the generation is the first to have been born after the mass-adoption of the Internet. [71] The Pew Research Center surveyed the various names for this cohort on Google Trends in 2019 and found that in the U.S., the term Generation Z was overwhelmingly the
The term Zillennial is a portmanteau of "Generation Z" and "Millennial". [1] A similar portmanteau, Zennial, is also used. [12] Other names that have been proposed for these cuspers include the Snapchat Generation by authors Ubl, Walden, and Arbit, [4] and MinionZ by Smit. [13] GenZennials was used to reference the micro-generation by Ketchum. [14]
Further development of the word "rizz" includes "Rizzler" or "Rizz God," [7] meaning highly charismatic, and "Unspoken Rizz", meaning a person's ability to attract a person without speaking. [8] The term may also be used to modify names, such as "Walt Rizzney" or "Rizzard of Oz" as word plays on Walt Disney and The Wizard of Oz respectively. [7]
According to a May 2021 article on youth news website The Tab, "some people have suggested" that the trend betrayed an underlying misogyny. [3] An article on CNET said that whether the word cheugy was sexist was "a good question", since girl bosses were female; contrariwise, the article noted that cargo shorts and Axe Body Spray were "cheugy stuff you might associate more with men."
The generation is often defined as people born from 1997 to 2012, and is the last generation to be born in the 20th century. Pages in category "Generation Z" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
I Am Gen Z is a 2021 documentary film about the impact of the digital revolution on our society, our brains and mental health, and how the forces driving it are working against humanity. This has huge ramifications for the first generation growing up with mobile digital technology - Generation Z, born between 1995 and 2012.