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A millennial mom has left the internet in stitches after asking her 10-year-old daughter to explain Generation Alpha slang to her.
Differences between Millennials and Gen Z are often joked about online but the generation after or Generation Alpha (those born between 2010 and 2024) will be next to take the reigns and dominate the online space.
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A 10-year-old put her mom Jennifer Maxwell (@splendidlysmittenjen) to test her on seven different slang terms.
In a hilarious video that amassed 371.2k likes and 9.6m views on TikTok, Maxwell shows her bewilderment at the younger generation's slang.

Maxwell from North Carolina said on TikTok: "Help me decipher my kid's slang, she's 10, I love her, but I have no idea what she's saying half the time anymore."
The first word on Maxwell's video was Sigma.
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The baffled mom recognized the Greek etymology of the word, with Sigma being the 18th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the S sound.
The mom said: "I feel like I should know that, I was not in a sorority, I was in the army, um I don't know Sigma. Sigma, what is that in the Greek alphabet?"
She asked her daughter to use it in a sentence, and her daughter said: "I'm Sigma."
Her mom then guessed: "I'm cool beans."
Her daughter was disgusted by her statement but revealed her mom was close to guessing the answer.
She said: "It's like the best and like the Alpha and like, popular, the best of the best."
Maxwell then lovingly said that the word applied to her daughter and kissed her daughter on the head.
The next on the list was Rizz, which the mom guessed correctly as being an abbreviation of Charisma.

The mom said on camera: "I know this one 'cause this one's been kind of around for a while, charisma, it means charisma."
Amusingly, the 10-year-old then asked her mom to explain what charisma meant.
The mom explained: "I don't know, it means like you are cool, you're a smooth talker, I don't know, you can talk some game. You're a player, maybe not a player, you got game."
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The girl then revealed the meaning as having game and being able to "pull someone."
Maxwell then questioned who she was pulling at the age of 10.
The next on the hit list was Rizzlers.
The mom guessed it was a team or crew of people with "rizz" or a pack of players.
She then asked if it was people who aspire to have rizz, but do not.
Her daughter explained that one would say the expression: "Where the rizzlers?" It means where is the rizz or it refers to someone with optimum rizz.
The confused mom admitted she did not understand the term.
According to wikiHow's page on internet slang, a rizzler is a compliment paid to extremely charming and confident individuals.
The mom pleaded for half a point, but the daughter did not reward her.
The next noun on the list was Ohio, a U.S. state.
The mom said she hears her daughter saying it after the phrase "skippity, skippity", but then associates the term with the state's prominence in the sporting and football world.
She guessed Ohio meant good.
The daughter revealed it is, in fact, an insult. She said: "Ohio means like you're dumb and you are so weird."
Maxwell appeared slightly shocked and asked where the insult came from since people from Ohio are probably not the biggest fans of the term being used in that way.
The next item on the slang list was 'Skibbidy' or 'Skibiddy toilet'.
The mom said Natalie, presumably a friend of her daughter's, walked in and said: "Ohio skibiddy toilet."
The mom guessed it was "doubly bad" after learning what the slang phrase Ohio meant, and then guessed it meant you're bad.
The Gen Alpha girl then explained the origin of the phrase came from a meme, which started with a head coming out of a toilet.
Now, the word has taken on many different negative meanings, she added.
The 10-year-old said: "Now it means you're weird and also if you're like 'oh why are you so skibbidy', and also if you say 'oh you got that Ohio skibbidy toilet rizz', that means you don't have any rizz.
And 'what the skibbidy' is like what's going on, like 'ew, what are you doing?'"
Her mom joked she was going to say the phrase to all of her daughter's friends.
The daughter said: "Honestly the boys in my class will think you're cool."
The next on the challenging list was: "Mewing."
The mom said she did not know the definition but had seen her son and daughter using a hand gesture where they stroke their jaw with their index finger when using it.
The daughter corrected her mom and said she puts her index finger to her mouth as a "shushing" notion, before stroking the jaw.
The puzzled mom attempted to mimic the action.
She said: "So what is it, your tongue is gonna be quiet, your cat."
The daughter shared: "No, it means like work on your jawline."
The concerned mom then asked if her daughter was calling people fat, and told her daughter to never use that insult.
She said: "What kind of kids are we raising?"
The final item on the test was "Chad Alpha."
Using what Taylor Swift has written in her songs, Maxwell deduced that Chads are bad.
She was left confused since she had previously learned Sigma was good.
She came to the conclusion the term meant "the number one loser."
The daughter explained: "Chad is like the leader aka like the best person."
The mom said as Swifties, she thought Chad was bad and joked that her daughter better drop the slang out of respect for their favorite pop star.
The game concluded, and the daughter won by a landslide.
Commenters shared similar experiences with their children and their bewilderment.
One mom said: "I banned my kids from saying this entire list because they couldn't explain it or use it in a sentence...brain rot."
Another said: "Yep definitely gen alpha child.. I'm gen z and have no clue what they mean."
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Lydia Patrick is a Newsweek Life and Trends Reporter based in London, focusing on emerging trends, human interest stories, and ... Read more