The following is excerpted from an online article posted by Parents
If you’ve heard your teen talk about winning or losing “aura points” lately, you might have some questions. And unfortunately for the rest of us, asking what aura means might make you lose a few points yourself.
Aura is a real, dictionary-defined word that refers to the type of atmosphere, energy, or vibe someone exudes, but, as always, teens have taken to social media to put their own spin on it.
Aura describes someone’s cool or “it” factor; it’s like a Gen Alpha version of swagger. If someone “has aura,” it means they are so cool that when they walk into a room, you feel their presence.
Someone with aura is confident, cool, collected, and suave; someone without aura is insecure, cringey, or generally uncool.
The teens and tweens of TikTok have created a system to quantify how their actions merit literal cool points by awarding and docking each other “aura points.”
The system almost mimics the way experience points work in a video game. If you spill coffee on your shirt or trip in front of your whole class, you might lose -100 aura points. But if you ask someone out and they say yes, or you get a good haircut, you can easily earn +100 aura points back.
The hypothetical number of aura points you have at any given moment doesn’t actually matter and usually isn’t even counted. It is just a silly way to compliment or make fun of someone’s actions.
Source: Parents
https://www.parents.com/what-do-aura-points-mean-12057367