Scroll through a tween's TikTok feed these days, and you're likely to stumble across a surreal parade of AI-generated creatures: a ballerina with a cappuccino for a head, a crocodile fused with a ...

Collage of various Gen Alpha slang words in different fonts: "Sigma," "Rizz," "Skibidi", "Gyatt", and "Brainrot" (Leila Register / NBC News; Getty Images) In the beginning, there was “skibidi.” It ...

A look back at 2025 through Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang, from 6-7 and brainrot to aura farming, and what these phrases reveal ...

In a Japanese shop selling pocket-money trinkets, there is a rack of toys, stickers and keyrings based on a global crew of AI-generated characters that almost every child knows about -- and very few ...

Bondi Beach hero awarded $1.6M for disarming alleged shooter ...

It appeared abruptly in the lexicons of kids under 14 — the first slang term unique to Generation Alpha. Parents’ ears perked up as they began to hear it around the dinner table. It could mean bad, ...