Have you ever wanted to be more than just friends with someone? Or thought that someone was really attractive, but didn’t know how to approach them? The answer to your predicaments lies in the one word: rizz. Some say they struggle with it, others claim to be a natural. Regardless, if you are a young person, it is hard to not have come across this word. This year, Oxford picked “rizz” as the 2023 Word of the Year. After battling closely with other contenders like Swifties, situationships, and parasocial, “rizz” came up on top. But what exactly is rizz? On the scale of Stevens students to Jack Harlow, where do you fall in terms of rizz?
A word popularized by the Twitch streamer, Kai Cenat, rizz can be interpreted as charisma, or your ability to attract someone and make them interested. Often used as a verb, “rizz” can have many conjugations and ways of usage. Someone who is really good at rizzing may even be called a Rizzler. However keep in mind, if you call yourself a Rizzler unironically, you may just turn off every person you talk to.
Research shows that being good at rizz may not be an innate characteristic, but instead something you can build up with one key trait: confidence. A lot of people, especially at Stevens, are too self-conscious about the way they behave. They have to learn how to stroll up with confidence. Shoulders back, chin up, strong eye contact. That is the key to rizzing someone up. Lay back and casually ease into a conversation. A common misconception that people tend to have is that confidence equals conceited. No: that is just narcissism. Over the past couple months, a lot of YouTubers and TikTokers have risen up to fame through their content focusing on how to become better at attracting people. The problem with some people is that they tend to follow the wrong types of influencers to learn how to rizz, such as someone by the name of Andrew Tate. From a female perspective, I would like to assure anyone who is reading this that if you act like Andrew Tate, you will not attract anyone for long term. That just might be my opinion, though, which is something beyond the scope of this news article.
Regardless, this year a lot of the top words included relations to other people. It seems as though many people wondered how to exactly label their relationships with others. As the year approaches its final days, we hope that all those who searched up “rizz” learned something new and hopefully rizzed up someone for the new year 😉.
