Internet slang changes all the dang time, with older phrases falling out of favor and new ones seemingly appearing out of nowhere. A relatively recent phrase started to crop up around the start of the pandemic and has cemented itself as a common term in the gaming community lately, born in the fires of Twitch and competitive gaming: skill issue. Four years ago? Not a thing. Today? Most definitely a thing.
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As a 30-something now, I am no longer at the vanguard of internet slang. I no longer want to be; once I started to see the term “rizz” being used online, I knew that it was over for me, because I had less than no idea what it was referring to.