If you woke up this morning and were scrolling through social media with bleary eyes, you might have caught a glimpse of terms like "Baby Gronk," "Livvy," and "rizzed up." Those words don't mean anything, right? Well, actually, they do. But don't worry. Practically the entire internet is confused about exactly why Baby Gronk and Livvy are trending and what the heck rizzing means.
Actually, if your kids are athletes, they may understand all of this better than you do. The buzz is surrounding college gymnast Olivia Dunne and 10-year-old football sensation, Madden San Miguel, aka Baby Gronk, and we're here to break it all down for you so you'll be in the know. Knowledge is everything after all.
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A TikTok video claiming that Livvy 'rizzed up' Baby Gronk recently went viral.
Louisiana State University star gymnast and social media influencer Livvy Dunne evidently met 10-year-old youth football sensation Madden San Miguel at Louisiana State University a few months back. But it wasn't until TikTok user Henry De Tolla, known as h00pify on the video-sharing platform, reposted the meetup video that was originally shared on San Miguel's Instagram and YouTube accounts, along with some slang-peppered commentary, that it really started to get attention.
A couple of months later, De Tolla's TikTok was reposted on Twitter and ended up going viral, which is why we're all hearing about it now. “Livvy just convinced Baby Gronk to commit to LSU,” De Tolla says in his video. “Livvy rizzed him up.”
Evidently, his choice of words has thrown people for a loop.
Baby Gronk has already conducted tons of college visits.
According to De Tolla, he's the No. 1 college football prospect in America, even though he's nearly a decade away from actually attending. The kid is good, hence the nickname. He's apparently being compared to now-retired NFL superstar Rob Gronkowski.
Baby Gronk's dad has been taking him around the country to visit various colleges as part of his plan to establish the young athlete as a social media influencer and build a savings account for him long before he starts playing professional sports.
So the visit to LSU wasn't all that unusual. As of one of the university's most prominent athletes and the highest-paid college athlete in the country — Livvy is a veritable social media celebrity — it was only natural she meet with Baby Gronk.
In the video, Livvy suggests Baby Gronk attend LSU.
In the quick video clip of Baby Gronk and Livvy's encounter, Livvy approaches the boy and asks him what he's doing at LSU. He explains that he might go there one day, to which she replies, "You have to come here. It's awesome." Then she butters him up, saying, "You're so cute," and gives him a big hug.
De Tolla says she "rizzed him up." That's where things get really confusing. Maybe if you're a college student or obsessed with TikTok and YouTube you might know what that means, but for the rest of us, it just sounds like nonsense.
"Am I going crazy or is this all gibberish," someone commented on TikTok.
"New language just dropped: TikTokanese," someone else wrote.
"This feels like ai," another comment reads.
And even De Tolla gets it. "If you don’t know what these words mean, it just sounds like I’m speaking gibberish almost,” the 21-year-old told NBC News.
OK, OK. You want to know what 'rizz' means.
Now you know all about Baby Gronk and Livvy, but what the heck is rizzed? It's actually just a slang term derived from the word "charisma."
Makes total sense, right? Livvy appeared to charm the socks off of Baby Gronk with her charisma. She "rizzed him up." Oh, and you should probably know that #rizz has 15 billion views on TikTok. Yes, billion!
According to De Tolla, Livvy isn't the only one with rizz, though.
In another video, he claims that Baby Gronk is the one who "rizzed up" Livvy. Kind of uncomfortably given their 10-year age difference, he also suggests that the 10-year-old "stole" Livvy form her boyfriend, another influencer known as the "Drip King" and that the two are dating and "so in love."
And in yet another follow-up video, De Tolla says Baby Gronk may have competition for Livvy in another youth football player, Baby Diggs. If you ask us, it's all a bit inappropriate, but De Tolla is getting hundreds of thousands of views and likes off of these Livvy and Baby Gronk videos, so we don't think he plans to quit any time soon.
