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The Brainrot Glossary: 67, Rizz, Aura, Sigma and Friends

A field guide to the vocabulary that surrounds 67, for anyone who has been handed a phone and asked to understand it.

· 2 min read · by the 67 team

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67 did not arrive alone. It lives in a vocabulary that changes monthly and that adults are not meant to keep up with. Here is the current state of the dictionary, no guarantees.

67 (six seven). A reaction, a greeting, a vibe. Means nothing. Comes with a hand gesture. You are on a website about it.

Brainrot. The genre. Content so meaningless and repetitive that it supposedly rots your brain. Used with pride.

Rizz. Charm, specifically the ability to attract someone. From "charisma". "He has rizz." A verb too: "he rizzed her up".

Aura. A person's invisible coolness score. Gained by doing something impressive, lost by doing something embarrassing. "That cost him 500 aura." Aura points are not real and everyone tracks them.

Sigma. A lone-wolf type who does not care what anyone thinks. Started sincere, now almost always ironic. A "sigma" doing the 67 gesture is a contradiction, which is why it is funny.

Skibidi. From a series of absurd animated videos about heads in toilets. Means nothing, like 67, but sounds sillier. Often combined: "skibidi 67" is a sentence that has been said out loud in a classroom.

Gyatt. An exclamation of admiration, originally for a specific body part. Do not say this in front of your parents.

Ohio. Adjective meaning strange or cursed. "That's so Ohio." Nothing against the state.

Cooked. Finished, doomed. "We're cooked." Often said after a test.

Lock in. To focus completely. The opposite of brainrot, said in the language of brainrot.

Fanum tax. Taking a bit of someone's food. Named after a streamer. Yes, really.

Mewing. A jaw exercise that became a joke gesture: a finger to the lips, then tracing the jawline. Means "I can't talk, I'm mewing".

Huzz. Plural noun for women, in the most ironic register possible. Every use is a joke about the word itself.

41. The other number. Nobody agrees on what it means. It exists mainly to be compared to 67.

How they combine

The words stack. "Bro locked in, hit a 67 in the last second, gained aura, skibidi." That is a real sentence, and if you understood it, you no longer need this glossary.

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