What words are you already tired of seeing repeated almost on a constant basis?
'Slop' - Commonly used to describe AI and is a common criticism of things people deem lacking in quality in entertainment mediums.
'Slams' - Commonly used in headlines to describe how critical someone's views are towards another.
'Slop' is fine, it's short and to the point and describes something for which we don't quite have another word yet (in the context of AI) and which definitely needs to enter the public consciousness.
Agree on 'Slams' though.
Woke, it's an American bullshit word that means whatever the speaker criticizes. It's a shame that it got exported to other parts of the world.
It started as “I understand and acknowledge that our society has systemic inequality and I would like to change that”. Perfectly reasonable way of stating it succinctly. As in, “I woke up” to this fact.
Right-wing lunatics stole the term and make it “anything I don’t like”.
I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.
Right-wing people stole 'Woke' and associated it with SJWs and along with 'snowflake' too. To them, being 'Woke' meant that you're aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you're suddenly 'Woke' to them. 'Snowflake' is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.
Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they're the ones crying up rivers over it.
Exactly right.
Trump.. as a non American, I would love to return to a world where don’t hear anything about their government..
From the US and I'm right there with you in spirit. So fucking sick of that pedo sucking the life out of our country, fucking over our old allies and being a shit talking unconscionable fuckwit. If his decisions didn't directly affect my day to day existence I'd like nothing more than to take a year long media hiatus.
The words I must filter to have a somewhat decent Lemmy experience...
I never see kamala mentioned anymore. She fell off the map hard
Articles containing "here's what we know", "what you need to know", etc in the title or headline. These "writers" should be court ordered to never post anything on the internet again.
AI.
Yeah, this one gives me a headache. Clearly the product of some marketing douchebag trying to sell the public on their LLM. Now repeated ad nauseum by talking heads on every media outlet around the world, to the point that every idiot believes there is actually some intelligence behind ChatGPT and the like. Repeat a lie often enough and the majority will believe it. The term AI is now so commonplace and misunderstood, that most people won't understand the gravity of a bonafide general AI if-and-when it actually becomes a reality. It seems like the majority is so convinced of the "intelligence" that they allow these LLMs full control over their phones, computers, appliances, vehicles and homes. WTF. FUBAR. How does it happen that we allow corporate controlled media and advertising to redefine what words mean? Makes me wanna hurl.
Yup, agree on all points and real AI is still far away and definitely not evolving from llm. But why not still go all in with the economy!
And now AI agents are the new hot shit (that nobody wants) .
(oh and we even defined AI so that llm should be called AI. 🤢)
The term AI has been around for decades. Most people wouldn't have a clue what an LLM is, even if they use one daily. It was inevitable that AI won out.
"Here's the kicker"
I really hate the whole generational thing that's going on... it started around 2020 and has been going strong eversince...
But I really hate that people deivide themselves and make fun of other generations... "That's sooo Boomer", "that's so millenial", "that's so gen z" etc are complete bullshit. Not everyone in these generations had the same experience or has the similar traits. You are telling me one guy being born in 2012 and 2013 have a complete different childhood, or 1996 and 1997...
Also not every boomer is a person of power that uses ot to undermine the youth, not every millenial cries the next beat moment and not every genz has brain rot...
I can't be the only one that feels like these narratives feel very fabricated and forced on to people, so we have another group we feel part of and other groups to be mad at. It feels like it was made to create division between people...
And it kinda makes sense that division is good for the ruling class. I mean it's easier to rule a bunch of idiots wasting the energy getting mad at each other that over people using their energy queationing your rule...
Latchkey kid here. It started before 2020. I was in grade school hearing crap about generations.
I think a lot of the annoying stereotyping is just people saying shit they know will get likes online.
Putting that aside:
Having ~5 generations simultaneously active in society is a first for our species. The effects of which are exponentially amplified by the internet and globalization.
Kinda an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
Generations was published in 1991 and this segmenting of people into these categories has only increased since then. I agree it divides people. But I think it's popularity isn't manufactured, the simplistic narrative resonates with people naturally
As ever, GenX got left out of every one of your examples. 😢
We're a really unique generation. No one else straddled the digital divide like us. Elder millennials were using the first PCs, but we went from nothing to the first home computers to PCs. Same for video games.
We didn't grow up anything like our Boomer parents, and Millenials feel like my really young sibling who I completely understand.
At 54, where would you put me? (I know, that's the exact opposite of your comment's thrust.)
Anything suffixed by 'bro' to be disparaging.
Berniebro being the most annoying one lol
Hell ya braj
brah
Bro, really, it's my favorite word, bro.
Why you gotta do me like that, bro?
Bro, it ain't cool, bro
Unprecedented. I cannot recall a single time that word was used in the past five years to describe a situation or event that was without precedent.
Since COVID, the use of that word has got unprecedented levels.
British newspaper articles that start with
"Backlash against" followed by something the government has suggested doing.
And when you read the article, they have a quote from a single person saying it'll hurt their business or something.
God am I tired of seeing backlash in that exact context. "City decides to help local residents but backlash mounts". Then exactly that, some old guy who hates change being upset
Back in the day the equivalent was "controversy", which was applied to every relevant news article and far too many inappropriate ones.
Hack. When used to describe anything that some idiot realized was possible. For example, "I just discovered this amazing hack to save on my grocery bills. I buy garlic and potatoes then bury them in my yard. Six months later, I have more garlic and potatoes! Epic!!"
STFU
'POV' - then proceeds to present something that isn't a first person perspective.
Oh, and "positive anymore". That's such a bastardization. It makes me cry.
What's the context for "positive anymore"?
Anymore is intended to be used in a negative context. You can think of it as a substitution for "no longer". Positive anymore is a blatant abuse, and would be better substituted for "nowadays" or similar.
Correct anymore: "I can't stand it anymore."
Positive (super wrong) anymore: "People's grammar is really stupid anymore."
I'm with you on "slam" and any other pseudo-violent verb to make an otherwise milquetoast headline more attention-grabbing.
What really gets me is when it is applied to the mildest of vocal objections by some politician. Like, it's not even clever wordplay, just dissent. None of this is worthy of the same vocabulary one would use to describe a WWE match, but here we are.
Sometimes, the news is kind of dull, and that's okay.
On the Slop part -- I wonder if the people that go around making inaccurate accusations about things being AI know how absolutely ridiculous it makes them sound. It's at the point where it's so absurd that I have to wonder if it's part of some kind of triple reverse sabotage effort to discredit the people who actually do take great offense to any kind of use of generative AI.
I'm at the point where I downvote every comment that's nothing more than, "This is slop." or "Is this AI slop?"
I'm reading that as, "Look how smart I am! Also, I'm part of your tribe so you should like me!"
Problematic - it's just so lazy. Makes me doubt whether the speaker has any coherent reason for why they don't like the given thing. Might as well say 'yucky'. It's the kind of word one uses when assuming everyone already agrees with you, and if they don't, well then they're probably problematic too. /rant
I love this call. It's such a thought terminating cliche at this point.
So and so "breaks their silence" on a topic. What an overdramatic way to say someone made a statement about said topic. It makes it sound like people have been waiting for a prolonged period for them to say something and they've been inexplicably silent. On Monday morning, I saw a headline saying the Reiner family were breaking their silence on their parents murder. IT HADN'T YET BEEN 24 HOURS! HOW SOON SHOULD THEY HAVE SAID SOMETHING? someone responds to a situation as soon as could possibly be expected and headlines call it "breaking their silence".
I've also seen headlines that say so and so "breaks their silence" on things nobody was asking for their thoughts on. Oh, someone hasn't commented on every little thing that happens? They must have been holding something back.
FreshParsnip breaks her silence on this annoying headline trend. It was so weird she wasn't saying anything until now!
I saw one where someone "broke their silence on attack on their house." Their house had been egged with no evidence that they were specifically targeted for any specific reason.
'.. like.... Like.. Like.... L... '
"Let's go"
"left" and "right" in the context of social or political discussions.
Instantly know it's an intellectual kindergartener speaking.
"Optics"
Optics is the study of light or the instruments involved in manipulating it.
It does not work as a stand in for "perception".
Saying "they are worried about the optics" is like saying "they are just worried about the camera" when you mean "they are worried about how it looks".
It's (yet another) dumb FOX fluff word that people have taken to use because they think it sounds smart and fancy. It's not, it's fucking dumb.
Edit: btw, it follows the pattern of other words imposed on the American psyche by FOX in the same vein as "slant", "bias", "spin" and "partisan", all of which had their heyday until people caught on, and another one was needed for projecting the idea that truth is negotiable and that all sides and opinions are "equally valid" and a matter of opinion and motivated by personal agendas. I have been trying to make people aware of this for decades, it's an impossible battle, it's been an outspoken strategy of FOX and the Republicans for decades, and it makes me sick seeing how well it works and how easily it penetrates public discourse.
Wow ok you can hate the term but I think it's nuts that you're laying its prevalence at the foot of FOX news. It's standard corporate buzz speak. There's no politics here.
You sound a bit unhinged, tbh.
It's over & bubble
flamiera SLAMS new age SLOP words for their ubiquity
“Clanker”. For… reasons.
How about the more PC "Clanka?"
/s
It’s such a Boomer word. It’s like what robots would be called in a 50s sci-fi novel. And it has nothing to do with the software it’s being applied to.
To me it just screams “I’m trying to be clever, but I’m actually demonstrating that i have no idea what I’m talking about”.
I do think it's weird how we invented a slur for something before it even exists, even if ironically.
In germany "Fachkräftemangel" "lack of professional workers". Ha! Id the job market is so bad and you're looking for workers, then why laying off a lot and not hiring? What actually "is missing" is slave workers for the CEOs. 30 years experience but only 8€/hour pay and no vacation days
"Wild"
Just tired of seeing it.
Right now, that word makes me think of the start of this song
"AI".
Back in my day, AI was another term for the computer in video games, like CPU.
Huh, usually those talks would turn into complaining about the "AS" in my experience.
I've been sick of 'unprecedented' for a long time. It isn't supposed to mean just 'shocking'.
Idk if this is just me but at my job everyone says "Correct" in this really weird way that pisses me off in a way I can't explain. Clients, workers, everyone and it's like, the same tonality consistently, nobody's ever like "uh huh" or "yeah" they say Correct" now, do they think it makes them sound smart or something?!
diabolical
You mean on a CONTINUAL basis !!!!!
Any violent or aggressive hyperbolic verb in all caps. "person DESTROYS argument for frobination", "Unpopular politician WRECKED by simple argument (not demonstrated in this article)"
Schrödinger's whatever. It's not clever or funny, it's mostly just pointless and overused.
I'm more annoyed by the posts and comments about being annoyed by words like "slammed." Sure, you might have a large vocabulary and get bored by the same language used ad infinitum; but keep in mind that more than half of people are illiterate and those are the people the media tries hardest to talk to.
Sad but true. :(
"Drop" or "dropped" to mean something's been released/made public/announced/appeared pretty much anywhere. I know it's not new. But over the last few years people have been saying it for everything. New thread just dropped. I just dropped my first album. That sort of thing, but for EVERYTHING.
"Last Christmas I gave you my heart"
based on a true story of an accident victim who signed his organ donor card just before christmas.
Tankie
Here are some words and phrases that grind my gears:
I also hate illegal immigrants being referred to as 'illegals', it's so dehumanising
Also, "the mentally ill", "the homeless"
I always found it interesting that using an adjective as a noun always sounds bad in English whereas in other languages (like Spanish) it’s not. Obviously “illegals” is a bad example because it would sound bad either way though.
"Subhuman" and "slaves" are not in anymore, ig.
I like enshittification as a concept, but I agree that it is past its prime now. I swear Cory Doctorow has made an appearance on every talk show and podcast that I watch to explain it. The people who host these things must live in bubbles to not notice this...