Rizz Memes: 12 That Defined The Internet

"Baby Gronk rizzing up Livvy Dunne" in July 2023 was the peak viral moment — a 10-year-old football prodigy meeting LSU gymnast Livvy Dunne, captured on video and remixed into thousands of rizz variations. It's the moment "rizz" fully crossed from Gen Z slang into mainstream internet culture.

Streamer Kai Cenat popularized "rizz" on Twitch around 2021. It spread through Twitch clips to TikTok in 2022, then exploded in 2023 with the Baby Gronk moment, Livvy Dunne discourse, and eventually Oxford naming it Word of the Year.

Unspoken rizz = attracting someone through presence alone, no words. A stare, a nod, body language. It's half-joke, half-aspiration — the idea that true rizz doesn't need to say anything. In practice, unspoken rizz is what we used to call "charisma" before Gen Z rebranded it.

Yes, but the valence shifted. In 2023 rizz memes were ironic and absurd. By 2025–2026, the word entered general slang — people say "rizz" earnestly now. The memes still work, but they're more reference than rallying cry.

You can generate rizz content (replies, openers, comebacks) with AI tools like Rizzly — that's the underlying joke of the "AI rizz" meme itself. For meme-specific generation (captions on images), any LLM works; for actually effective rizz in conversations, use a dedicated tool.