“I have negative rizz,” one of my guy friends declared over pancakes one Saturday morning. It was a bleary-eyed brunch—the kind where you’re still half-drunk from the night before—when he threw out ...

“I’d love to have a modicum of the rizz that Gandalf the Grey has.” “Rizz” is a relatively young word — it’s been circulating online since 2021 — but one that’s cemented its place in the cultural ...

Catalyzed by Kai Cenat (per his “rizz tips” videos) and abetted by Tom Holland (“I have no rizz whatsoever. I have limited rizz.”), “rizz” has taken over 2023 – and even Oxford University Press, ...

A recently published study, “Measuring the Rizz Factor of Cornell Undergraduates,” by Prof. Harry Kuntz, sexual health, and Prof. Anita Dick, sociology, investigates the relationship between Cornell ...

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