The WORST Gen Z Words...

[@Pointlesss]

START A BURDIE CHAIN

[@burdieofficial]

Burdie

[@ralasamafifi]

Burdie

[@umball]

Burdie

[@empoweredempire88]

Burdie

[@KennaTV]

Burdie

[@Aaronnh]

If you brought a soundboard to school with every gen z slang out there, it would just sound like a regular middle school hallway.

[@randomperson-uj4bp]

for real

[@afriking]

im sayin

[@3arthandsky]

Middle school? Guess I'm too old and I'm suppose to be gen z?

[@jacobquiroga626]

@@3arthandsky Yeah, me too! I was in Middle School way back in the mid-2010s, & graduated from middle school in 2018, & later that same year, was my first year in High School, lol! Gen Z was born from 1997-2012, & now, I think these new slangs are mostly used by late Gen Z, so yeah you & I don't relate!... 😂🤢

[@nesquik7512]

@@jacobquiroga626 agreed, i finished middle school back in 2020, nun of these where really anything till covid hit thh

[@Bowzer2025]

One of the most sick realizations I’ve had is that rizz is short for charisma

[@MarshmallowBoy]

Holy shit.

[@rea280]

Sheeeeesh

[@AlicornHana]

Nicknames for words are weird

[@VeryRGOTI]

dude its like richard and dick all over again

[@jrodd13]

Gee thanks a lot Bowser way to give us the sick realization too

[@veryrealperson3694]

"I forgor" is a direct reference to a meme of the same name from around 2020-2021. Basically its a twitter screenshot where a guy tags the Walmart twitter account saying they have a question, and then when walmart responded they just said "I forgor 💀".

[@timilodeon526]

ok

[@bosco_]

i thought its from the kanye tweet

[@therealf.b.i9468]

@CristianoFooty Bro only roast is "NPC"

[@thenono48rayan]

Bruh that why now ppl use the skull emoji as a "laughting emoji" like bro imagine 2030 the "😂" emoji will be the angry emoji bruh

[@veryrealperson3694]

@@thenono48rayan Its bc it means "I'm dead" as in like when someone's "dying of laughter"

[@DWG1125]

I'm a gen z and i'm so embarrassed to be part of this generation.

[@tabletgenesis3439]

Trust me, bro, next generation will be worse. In the next generation, 9 to 16% of women will be karens.

[@dinglebord]

It makes me so disspointed tbh yaknow, but we ain't so bad compared to gen alpha..that's another worse generation

[@julijasimonovska8442]

​@@dinglebordGen Alpha got it from Gen Z

[@TaseenAlim]

I am just happy i am not a part of gen alpha

[@lovecupcakex642]

​@@julijasimonovska8442No you got I from yourselves, don't blame another generation for your own faults.

[@AyushTH]

"Skill issue" is literally the easiest to understand joke ever made tho

[@phosphorius7537]

Its funny when you use it ironically to roast your friends but you must not overuse it

[@Korixon.]

@@phosphorius7537 I use it too much so I have tried to stop useing it

[@phosphorius7537]

@@Korixon. good idea best jokes are still those that are your own creation

[@Korixon.]

@@phosphorius7537 i can still make some of my own good jokes and i dont really saw anything else in the video at all but idk why i formed skill issue has a habit when someone says something bad

[@powerjolt7215]

​@@Korixon.Not being able to stop using it is a skill issue, no cap

[@TheZapdos]

As a gen z born male, i can say this entire video is true. but fr, LET HIM COOK

[@Zanos960]

I agree

[@elaineofhouston]

I also agree

[@JohnMcLoughlin06]

“Double it and give it to the next person”

[@Bb_marjuana]

When you hate the word “s|@¥” so damn much that you censor it if you have to mention the word and end up going on around a 2-3 year streak of not saying it.

[@luciferdontreadmydescription]

Yall being servipors for real

[@rmn070]

As a Gen-Z kid, the term 'NPC' really grinds my gears.

[@shineymcshine5026]

What grinds my gears is when people say “Naur” or text it. Correct me but Isnt that a UK 🇬🇧 thing?! Isnt that disrespectful or whatever?😭

[@cctproductions6976]

@@shineymcshine5026 🇬🇧

[@candicelau5233]

@@shineymcshine5026 its jus basically mocking the way aussies say no but tbh no one finds it offensive

[@rmn070]

@@candicelau5233 Sounds more like how the character Death speaks in that one South Park episode.

[@jenkathefridge3933]

​@@shineymcshine5026 tf naur?

[@PortalBreaker]

"Everyone is the main character of their own story." - Tsun Zu

[@jdoubleclutch3952]

I agree…..I’m Gen Z and I hate the stupid words that we make…I don’t even say them 99% of the time it’s too annoying and feel like people who say ( Rizz, W, etc.) makes me feel like they are clones and act the same…I will not put myself into that category 👍🏾🤦🏾‍♂️

[@Sammykyt]

TikTok has ruined this generation

[@KennaTV]

glad im not the only one who believes that

[@thesergius2295]

yez!1!1!1!1!1!!1

[@Rajaniaveerinder]

Yeah and in a future war china gets an advantage genz has given the CCP so much information

[@belstar1128]

Why do zoomers use tiktok its just worse youtube.

[@paulaboatright256]

totally AGREE! i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks that!

[@KennaTV]

i cant go to a single classroom without seeing atleast one person do the NPC wave, this generation is messed up

[@paulaboatright256]

💀💀💀

[@xianthefurcorn3855]

I can’t go to a single classroom without seeing at least one person sexually moaning in class, i agree

[@thatnnoob6109]

@@xianthefurcorn3855 Hormones be like:

[@steakfilly5199]

You in middle school or something 💀

[@thatnnoob6109]

@@steakfilly5199 he probably is, my middle school was the same way lol. It’s chill af now in high school.

[@JOE-oe9it]

my understanding of Gen-Z vocab Rizz = charisma/appeal zesty = acting gay slay = an encouraging cheer NPC = somebody whose vocab is robotic cap = aint no way I forgor = you forgot something, but you make a light-hearted joke about it. generally does not deviate from the severity of the absent mindedness. off the top of my head, those are the ones I hear most often, although im sure there are more.

[@molcat_doma]

People talk about gen z vocab like boomers talked about lol, lmao and XD in 2004

[@amrateparic659]

​@@molcat_domaexactly

[@theraccoon1246]

thats so zestable

[@Sammykyt]

Not quite lol

[@crocs_pookie]

I thought people refer NPCs to “people who are nonexistent” I literally dont know i was born in generation z but don’t understand shit about it

[@WesternOhioInterurbanHistory]

0:46 as someone who used to live in Ohio, and often goes to Ohio for trips and vacation This one is too accurate. I hate it so much.

[@wagawaga2010]

I can confirm that burdie is the main character. The TRUE main character.

[@aidenmason5269]

Birdie is Him.

[@TideFloof252]

Oh god my class always say “open the noor!” 24/7 and it’s getting very annoying

[@itzramisha]

same 💀

[@paulaboatright256]

open na noor 💀

[@Xavier17.5]

I never found it funny until I realised he sounds like Walter Junior. But TBH it's kind of dead now.

[@PurrplePencill]

Same I hate it

[@paulaboatright256]

@@PurrplePencill bro, I HATE IT TOO! there has got to be people out there who are annoyed with the same meme. where i hear a kid repeat that meme, i'm like "wow, this kid definetly watches tiktok."

[@ICR_Frizzstroyer]

At School people call me rizzel because it's a play on words with my real surname "Frizzel". They do it to make fun of me for being to ugly to get girls. I hate it

[@Batard42069]

Skull issue is often used in War Thunder community when you get Gaijined (like when someone shoots your engine and then your ammo that is not even near the engine explodes, killing you) , then you start complaining and people call it skill issue. In short it is used to describe situations that have nothing to do with your skill

[@2bluetru]

My friend called me Adolf Rizzler and I don't know how to feel.

[@schemesthefox1255]

Ummm.. no… just no.

[@palpatinedark8086]

🥶 you going to rizz up Poland

[@jenkathefridge3933]

​@@palpatinedark8086 he gonna rizz up the jews 😏

[@glenhaven721]

Bro bout to rizz up all of Europe.

[@cameroncampbell6635]

I am almost 20 and I am realizing I’m old, because I never heard half of these.

[@TheGaara802]

That's another thing with gen z you're 20 you're not old. Why you guys act like y'all old 20 is still a baby

[@lightblood65]

I turned 22 on March 3 so I was like 2 when you were born😮

[@cameroncampbell6635]

@@lightblood65 To young to be 90s kid, to old to be a cringe TikTok Fortnite dance kid. Let’s do go early Gen Z ( born between 1997-2005 )

[@belstar1128]

I am almost 30 and i know like 50% not bad

[@jacobquiroga626]

Same! I was also born in 2003, so I definitely relate! Yeah us early Gen Z, definitely don't relate to late Gen Z!...

[@Miruble82]

Ya know it’s a good day when burdie uploads

[@dillywills.]

YASSSS

[@jehkobisemmens5125]

NPC

[@wutguy]

bot boy and lava girl

[@De_Gekke_Lamas]

Bad bot

[@frog532]

Burdie is the rizzord of oz

[@mikel2976]

2:09 That sounds like a skill issue to me.

[@Mohamed-Taha-Abd-Allah]

I forgor is a meme where you forget something so much that you even forget basic vocabulary

[@JohnMcLoughlin06]

My favorite slang term has probably been “cracked” for a while now. I had a friend tell me I’m the only person he knows who says it, and that’s rubbed off on one more of my friends, but I still say it all the time and tbh I feel like it fits. In a close second for me is “bruh moment,” but more specifically just “moment” as a word to describe a situation via an analogy. Both top tier slang terms for me.

[@theeternalsuperstar3773]

2:12 "Period" isn't even slang. It's been a phrase used to emphasize speech since long before you or I were born.

[@tabletgenesis3439]

7:25 Rizz sounds like radically sliding down a slope breezing through everyone who is trying to. It is radically attracting all the girls breezing through every other guy who's trying to.

[@evanmilby6995]

Most of my generation’s jokes make me want to jump out of a moving car.

[@skylerbogacki7345]

Rizz comes from Charisma so it does have a meaning! 😊

[@4y000]

ur right charizzma

[@umball]

This man knows too much, he's epic

[@jozek3820]

its him

[@umball]

@@jozek3820 who me

[@afriking]

@@jozek3820 himmy neutron

[@jozek3820]

@@umball no, him

[@umball]

@@jozek3820 yes

[@main_character1]

In your perspective, you are the main character, and your friends and family are just side characters, while the randoms people are just NPCs. But they are in your perspective. In Burdie's perspective, he's the main character, your perspective, you're the main character, and in my perspective, I'm the main character. It really depends on what perspective it is.

[@SmilerStrike]

Instead of 'Skill Issue', use a variant for when someone has bad luck: "Luck correlates with skill."

[@1EmuFan]

1:46 sometimes i ask my sibling to help me with something because i dont know how to do it and she is just like “SKILL ISSUE”

[@paulaboatright256]

sounds like something a gen z would say. your sibling is not funny.

[@johnnytheyoungmaestro]

​@@paulaboatright256I know. TikTok is making kids so disrespectful now.

[@cobrobbob320]

I feel like I'm surrounded by people that use AI to craft their sentences.

[@Doxxonblock2]

The table meme was mad popular back in 2016😭 when someone said that recently I cringed so hard

[@johntory8330]

"Why the heck ohio is a meme?" Brazil man, 2023

[@Zoomydoomy]

2:19 Period has been around for decades so it's not really a gen z thing

[@callangb7652]

As a part of Gen Z I hardly understand some of these words myself

[@rgonzalo511]

How old are you?

[@callangb7652]

@@rgonzalo511 old enough to hear these words but not entirely know their meaning

[@milogang3440]

​@@callangb7652 im also a gen z and i can relate

[@jenkathefridge3933]

Same I got confused what they mean most of the time

[@SG2048-meta]

@@callangb7652 tbh that could be any age as 1 year olds are now on social media

[@AmProBirb3822]

3:20 bruh this literally happened yesterday. yes i am in year 7

[@navalpeanut7432]

4:51 He has turned to the dark side

[@rblxdani]

oh no

[@ErnonFloundee23]

I think that Slay is the female alternative to Let Him Cook. Also, I never heard of what ‘Twizzie’ or ‘Jit’ was until now, thanks Burdie

[@m1ntykassitea7936]

That being said, is there a female alternative to him, Himothy, Himmy Neutron, etc? (Sorry if this sounds stupid 😅)

[@ladyalicent705]

Whenever someone uses those phrases in real life and then calls me or someone else an NPC I shout *”NPC? YOU’RE USING THE SAME 12 PHRASES, YOU’RE THE FUCKING NPC!”*

[@Mangooooooooooooooooo]

One of my friends uses NPC ways that make no sense. Like someone could forget their wattle bottle and he will call them an NPC.

[@o_s-24]

I'm pretty sure most people using "NPC" don't even know what it means

[@Queen_Katt]

Nah because there was this dude in my flex period that VERBALLY said: “L + Ratioed” and I hade to explain to him that it’s just something you should never say out loud unless you wanna be a social reject.

[@EdgyCraft]

as a gen z'er, i can confirm that 95% of these make no sense.

[@rgonzalo511]

How old are you?

[@EdgyCraft]

@@rgonzalo511 15, why?

[@rgonzalo511]

@@EdgyCraft Because my theory is that most of these words are only said by the youngest gen z the ones who are still in elementary and middle school

[@EdgyCraft]

@@rgonzalo511 ah, gotcha

[@rgonzalo511]

@@EdgyCraft my theory valid or nah? do high schoolers say this things

[@TheCat500]

Okay, so yesterday in school, the kid who sits behind me in class said, "skibiti rizz." I turned around and asked him, "WHAT!?" And he just said "skibiti rizz," he couldn't even define it... What is this world coming to..?😮‍💨

[@westmezzanine4321]

As a Gen Z, I love 'skill issue' and I'm known to kind of like 'I forgor', but most of these are shit I agree. I use goated and him unironically though And ratio isn't bad but it needs to be online exclusive. Apps with likes/votes especially

[@joecooledits]

I can’t get if they have severe dementia or they just can’t finish the word. “Forgo”

[@fwflygon14]

"I forgor" came from everywhere at the end of time where people will make memes about I forgor as the idea is that you have dementa and I forgor

[@micahjenkins6881]

7:37 "Category 5 natural rizzaster" got me crying 💀

[@Gabrielmaragh228]

1:19 oh c,mon open the noor deserves more

[@acidusk]

seeing “it’s giving ____” everywhere literally made me feel like i was going insane.

[@JlMMY728]

0:40 exactly i fucking hate it

[@Gabrielmaragh228]

Wolfsburg? Young kdb

[@JlMMY728]

@@Gabrielmaragh228yessir

[@PurpleGuy661]

Someone finally said that 😑 like tf

[@CBUCASTT]

Same I hate ganz words even tho I say it

[@ovrxpsd]

lmao bro i started cracking up with the "COUNTER ratio hehehe". i rarely laugh. usually it's just a chuckle but that was good haha

[@MartyDoesStuff]

As a GenZ I speak for all GenZs here, I have no fucking what half of these are. Maybe because I’m the only GenZ that doesn’t use TikTok

[@crystalseth97]

Gen Z wants to be as cool and creative as 90's kids. We actually had a real childhood. Gen Z life only exists on fucking discord chat and fortnite lobby lol. Brutal truth.

[@FittedHvH]

6:48 I must be stuck in 2016 cuz i be hittin the *_dab_* all the time

[@evanmaldonado9799]

4:14 Drake is the type of guy to say hip hip horay.

[@sea_muffin]

There's this crusty-ass girl in my class with no friends that hits the dab, and every time she does it, I look around to see everyone cringing.

[@LeylandCullen-Wood]

open the noor- a disabled man came to his door trying to get in- 10 days later- he came back saying "im sorry i apologize:( open the noor!" people just making fun of the disabled man.

[@mrbigbrain368]

0:20 I forgor💀 comes from this guy messaging another person that they forgot but they misspelled it as I forgor💀 with a skull emoji

[@jacobquiroga626]

Wow, even though I'm Gen Z myself, born in 2003, I've never heard of them, & this made me feel a little old!... I think a lot of these new Gen Z words & phrases are mostly used by late Gen Z, & I definitely do not relate to late Gen Z!... 🤢

[@lovecupcakex642]

What was the point of the disgust emoji? And not all late Gen-Z (which one of them is me, 2009) speaks like that, dingleberry. You're taking this generation crap too seriously.

[@isaacgould5974]

I don't understand why people say "slay". Seriously if I just said kill it would be weird but the version of kill used in fantasy is ok.

[@TheRival-_-]

It’s the ___ for me- I think most people at least me and my friends for sure use it to emphasize something that was funny like “it’s the awkward silence for me”

[@michaelkaye1799]

"The 2010s just hit different. 🥲" Like 30 seconds later: "Bro's definitely stuck in 2016. 🤦"

[@gabrielelrandom6493]

I just got back from Winterfest in Pigeon Forge and that restored my faith on my generation a little bit, well at least down here in the South XD

[@Cdeutsch07]

7:18 rizz doesn’t just sound right it’s actually short for charismatic cha(rizz)matic

[@Peruvianyellowleggedcentipede]

It’s so annoying when I say something and I feel creative, and then the next day it’s a viral joke that everyone uses and I’m unoriginal

[@casonwells9930]

What's sad is I'm in high-school and I can't relate to my friends or Gen Z at all because I don't know what these words even mean. And when I ask them what they do mean they can never give me a straight answer

[@mysticreaper896]

I happen to be studying the same math formula that birdie showed on screen, very fun I must say.

[@SloEdits]

💀

[@roundabout-host]

@@SloEdits That's GEN Z slang And no I don't use 😂 I use 😅🤣😹😸

[@SloEdits]

@@roundabout-host it is gen z slang but i actually use it bro. better than saying "slay" or "periodt"

[@Dead_Metal]

The quadratic formula... useful when you dunno what to do, so you just use it and pray to god it has the answer.

[@Voltar_99]

7:11 they just be diagnosing her with type 2 diabadies

[@suchacap22003]

4:30 thanks for putting me in the video

[@hudsonbakke8836]

"I forgor" is a common typo people make when saying "I forgot" because t and r are next to each other on the keyboard. So for some reason it became a meme

[@KryselITG]

Millenials called, they want Lil B back. Please don't take Swag Like Ohio from us, those were good ass days.

[@PotatoGaming107]

3:09 get out of the whip!!!

[@Aaronnh]

I wonder what is burdie’s thoughts on group chat culture?

[@Lernrnrbebenehrhrnrn]

Bad news guys: kids in my grade are using these words (skibidi, what the sigma, rizz) THESE ARE FRESHMEN IN HIGH SCHOOL!!

[@Itsjettondon05]

Someday we just gonna go back to grunting noises

[@A_Unique_Name]

7:55 no it's Rizzy Neutron

[@OverHeed]

I am very happy that I understand almost none of these, despite being born in 2006

[@thenono48rayan]

The dab was good... Much better than the new trends that people do.

[@overdinky420]

As someone who doesn’t use much social media, i dont know like half these terms

[@sawsleyer1295]

All of this mans videos are so 🔥I always have them playing on the background

[@schemesthefox1255]

5:34 Is “jit” short for legit? It makes sense but I’m not sure.

[@rblxdani]

Jit from Tiktok means person or someone looking or acting stupid.

[@rblxdani]

Also, idk

[@SpaceAnaster]

1:44 I am very offended. It spawned from a vine Rip

[@TeleKamptiA]

No it spawned from America’s Funniest Home Videos.

[@ProudFemaleFBIAgent]

As a African American person, I see gen z using my peoples' dialect very wrong such as "slay", "no cap", "period", and "bad". I notice gen z's obsession with African American culture.

[@rachelfritz8002]

The “I Forgor” probably started with a typo since [R] and [T] are next to each other.

[@alex.xx3]

As a gen Z, i say that we are just having fun, like you guys did :) one day, we’ll grow up, just like you, and we will all laugh remembering those fun times where we said random slangs

[@phosphorius7537]

The art of fun is uniqueness gen z slang is nothing special if you wanna be funny create your own jokes like in our friends group i'm the god of white bread and when my bestfriend and i watch an anime it just randomly appears that white bread god needs to save the day or another one that is a bit more recent we just casually talk about to kill the president i like that one too

[@alex.xx3]

@@phosphorius7537 maybe for you, that slang isn’t funny. But for most of us, it is. Even if jokes aren’t unique, knowing that so many people feel the same thing when hearing makes us feel more “accepted”, in a certain way, in the gen z community. Of course, inside jokes are always with us, like every friend groups. Having more common jokes are just something we enjoy, who ever the kid is and where ever they are. It’s kind of bringing all gen z’s together. For exemple, i’m french, but i know a lot of those slangs!

[@julijasimonovska8442]

​@@alex.xx3So you say you're just having "fun" while making fun of Gen Alpha for doing the exact same thing and calling what Gen Alpha likes cringe? Because thats how bratty Gen Z is.

[@Chloe4656.]

​@@alex.xx3 No I won't it's painful like there's things that I still mind painful and forget it's existed.

[@Patrick-xe1li]

Little known fact, the term “Rizz” comes from the word charisma😁

[@idontknow20404]

GenZ Mfs saying they’ve “deceased” or “Died” after reading the worst joke in history

[@BTG_gamer]

I remember when you could actually enjoy yourself without being told "you're not that guy", like who tf is "that guy" is you keep telling everyone they're not "that guy" Goddamn I hate being born into gen z

[@thatonechillgamer]

7:34 “Rizzard of Oz” “Wolverizz” “Ms frizzle” “Common back from the dead with a rizzurrection” “Tyrizzosaurus rex” “Get a rizztraining order” “Rizzmatology” Are just some of the rizz puns I got 😂

[@Maniax64]

3:59 yes yes i agree with that statement

[@Dot878]

What could be funnier than playing every funny meme in existence after playing the “OH NO OUR TABLE” meme?

[@Arabicat.]

i once went to a funeral with my mom when i was a kid and i could hear some random ass kids shouting at the to of their lungs "RIP L BOZO+RAYTIO+ GET GOOD" and it was someone's grandma that died 😂😂😂

[@sonicfan12e]

2:29 yea for real

[@DropsofJupiterReal]

I actually like the skill issue one lol, the rest of them I don't really care bout them. Oh except for Slay, I like that one too.

[@OrbitalDropper]

Some of the 9th graders call me an NPC. Sometimes my classmates say I have "left the auto-clicker on" because I am repeating a word or a phrase.

[@TdwtK]

The "Open the noor" meme was a guy who had a disability, and couldn't say "door" properly, so he had to say "open the noor". But I think that's how it went, if I'm wrong, let me know

[@realtwistyfresh]

Its from Breaking Bad

[@Sintaj.]

The table meme has been around since Vine idfk why people suddenly caught traction with it

[@of4950]

the "1, 2 buckle my shoe, 3, 4 open na noor" meme makes me 1 step closer to taking a break form tiktok. it was never funny in the first place yet it's still a thing

[@LDXReal]

Gen Z here, I've never actually heard that take on that nursery rhyme prior to your comment but it's got me rolling 💀💀💀 My humor may be beyond repair but at least I don't use TikTok 🙏🏾

[@paulaboatright256]

since when was some guy saying OPEN NA NOR funny! like wth tik tok?? whats so cool about some guy asking to open the door in a western accent?

[@of4950]

@@paulaboatright256 it never was

[@of4950]

@@LDXReal I never really heard until this ass trend and tiktok is not what you think

[@paulaboatright256]

@@of4950 EXACTLY! you are preaching FACTS! i don't take any tik tok bs anymore. and i will never watch it.