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annoying words made popular through the Internet
- Thread starter seiki
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Jesus Christ
Like, do you people just not understand that these words are not popular because of the internet? That they were around long before niggas were hoppin on Twitter/Message Boards you frequent/Wherever?
I agree with you on this one. I use this with a select group of friends as well as "fam" and "bro." There is obviously a time and place for everything though!
snowflake.. It's like you're either a 60 something old man or some angsty ass teenager yelling at one another and calling each other names.
I get what you're saying, and part of me agrees with this. Unfortunately, living in Japan for three years, you do meet people who are best described as weebs. It was not uncommon to define someone with this word, like so, "Yeah, he's a really nice person, but I don't like talking to him very much. He is just too much of a weeb, so he only wants to talk about anime."
People who live in Japan or visit Japan and know nothing about the language, culture, or history beyond anime stuff. Those people are not fun to be around.
No personal attacks, please.
Quite ironic that the guy going on a multipost tirade about how literal people are being cant see those posts as anything but examples of words overheard annoyingly frequently online and not literal words invented by the internet.
Also funny that the same poster is apparently proud that they hang around people talking like a markov chain run amok through any moderately populated forum.
I know a man in his sixties who uses snowflake and libtard. He's on facebook all the time.
It's a flavor of the year type of deal. It's been "cringe" for a while now. Before that it was "salty"
Honorable mentions
Lowkey
Cuck
Deadass
Lit
Honorable mentions
Lowkey
Cuck
Deadass
Lit
The thing is some of these words do have a history, but they also became popular on the internet outside of the culture they originated from.. If that makes sense. Like, now they they've become trendy words used by pre-adolescent kids to the point of annoyance.
Much like how stuff like 'yas kween', 'snatched' and 'slay' have a background in black/gay culture but now every white girl on Twitter uses it at random.
Fam has been in the black community for way loads of years before it got picked up by others, it isn't stopping
I don't know if the internet made it famous or not but I always hate when people say "preggers" instead of "pregnant." Why? You're not even shortening the word. It's the same amount of syllables. It sounds like being pregnant is a fad like planking or Tebowing.
"OMG I am like so preggers"
"OMG I am like so preggers"
It's a pretty common word in literature and academic writing. Read more, I guess.
Yea, that's what I was saying in reply to that comment. Terms originated outside of the internet becoming trendy internet terms.
Putting the word 'egregious' into sentences when it does not match the rest of the language used by the writer in a post. This is probably used to sound superior but comes across as someone discovering a thesaurus for the first time. I now stop reading the comment once I see it.
Only thing worse that writing it is people who say it in real life. Mainly as they overuse the word and apply it to everything and thus demeaning the value of the word.
Only thing worse that writing it is people who say it in real life. Mainly as they overuse the word and apply it to everything and thus demeaning the value of the word.
Whenever I see someone use the word "problematic" I read it as shorthand for "I think this might be bad and want to appear woke but I can't be arsed articulating what's actually wrong with it".
Also, "you're arguing in bad faith" has become shorthand for "I don't know how to respond to that".
Also, "you're arguing in bad faith" has become shorthand for "I don't know how to respond to that".
Ah, condescension. Love it. Perfidious, nocuous, temerarious and, related to you, nescient, are also common words in literature, but they're rarely used in everyday life. One would consider someone regularly using them to be a little on the pompous or pretentious side, though, while gross simply makes you sound like a stunted child who can't think of anything better to describe their distaste for something.
Look, I'm not talking about using it in the context of, say, Gross National Debt or the Gross Weight of a bag of produce or even Gross Pay vs Net Pay. I'm saying that, when used by someone whose entire vocabulary seems to consist of the words problematic, toxic, fuck him/her, disgusting and optics, it's barely above using the words icky or grody (there's one you 40-somethings probably haven't heard in a while) to describe the mystery meat lunch you were served in third grade.
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Since we both hate when people use that word, I will safely assume you will find as much enjoyment out of this article as I did:
Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly
Call it a hot take if you must, but you deadass lit fams need to stop getting triggered so easily. That kind of outrage culture is problematic and lowkey toxic.
Stay lit and woke, my dudes.
Stay lit and woke, my dudes.
What do you want us to admit?
And damn, you're all over this thread.
Add: alpha, beta, and libt*rd
Edit: Also seems some people are letting their inner gator show in here...
Remember the post I made in the Feeling Young thread? It's pretty much like that.
You could make a novelty account controlled by a bot that just makes one-two word posts like "gross" "disgusting" "wow toxic" "fuck (insert person or group here)" on random topics in OT and 50% of the posters here would find that person to be a good poster.
But what if things are yummy and your wife is really cute and says it?
