Hi, welcome back to eat your crust podcast.
I'm crystal.
And I'm Jisoo.
I have a confusing gen z word for us to discuss today.
Okay.
Actually, I'm not even sure if this is a gen z word.
It might be Gen alpha at this point.
I'm not, like, sure where the slang is coming from anymore, but the word is sigma and I only know part of it.
I don't see it as much now on TikTok, but for a period of time, I was seeing it a decent amount.
And from my understanding, there's, like, the phrase alpha male, right?
And, like, beta or whatever.
And so sigma is almost like an alternative to alpha without the, like, baggage of that word almost.
And I feel like when I do hear it being used, it's a little more, like, sarcastic or maybe like, ironic.
It definitely doesn't carry that, like, really heavily gendered or, like, baggage, as I mentioned, of the word alpha.
And I think it's supposed to be a good thing.
Like, if you're a sigma character, you're supposed to be.
It's like, kind of a positive thing, slash, like, funny thing, dude.
I actually didn't know the connotations of the word sigma that much, but I do see it used in the wild, kind of like a synonym to alpha, like you said, or to chad almost.
So it's like, oh, he's a sigma male or sigma woman or whatever.
Just means that they're really on top of the food chain almost.