"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Luke-Warm Tampon Tea]

Pretty much all the newspeak that people are forced to use by social media, like "unalived" because saying "killed" or "suicide" will get your youtube shit demonetized or flagged and how that kind of language has just become the norm on most parts of social media.

 

[ChaosReignsOnSomeSaturday]

Situationship or throuple.

 

[Adrenochrome Dreams]

"Abuse"

It used to mean seriously harmful misconduct, usually involving violence or sex crimes.

It's been seriously watered down to mean anything that hurt your fee fees.

 

[Intensening Rapeye]

One thing that does seem to have escaped from the lab is HR speak. It really feels like it’s permeated all areas of life, and words and phrases like ‘reflective practice’, ‘journey’, and ‘reach out’ have become almost baked into horrible institutional speech patterns that’re almost impossible to avoid.

AI, when it becomes the default tendril of every HR department could be an awful nightmare reality for most people.

 

[WULULULULU]

"Love yourself". I've had people tell me this in my family and I fucking despise it. Loving yourself won't make you feel better nor will it improve on your current predicament. It sounds like a fucking brainwashing technique.

 

[glass_houses]

"Love yourself". I've had people tell me this in my family and I fucking despise it. Loving yourself won't make you feel better nor will it improve on your current predicament. It sounds like a fucking brainwashing technique.

"Be more compassionate to yourself."

Why the fuck should I be? I'm the reason I'm in this mess now.

 

[Crocodylus Acutus]

"Is an experience," as in "Watching X do Y is an experience."

What a fucking trite statement, life is nothing but one great collection of millions of experiences that you face every day.

 

[Poyo Sato]

Using "cultured" or "man of culture" to normalize or even praising porn addiction.

 

[glass_houses]

"Journey"

Reading journey, food journey, fitness journey....

Not everything is a fucking journey, and trying to use the word to make your trite little life seem important is just a massive wank.

 

[Fukase]

Any of the condescending terms that far lefts always seem to use; idk how to explain it but you'll probably know what I mean. It sounds like a teacher talking to a bunch of unruly 1st graders. "Do better", "educate yourself", "listen when (x) is speaking" kill yourself

 

[A Sentient Dumpster]

"Folks" has been brought up here before but it's annoying me more and more, and I almost can't believe it's stuck around this long (people were complaining about it in this thread over 2 years ago!)

I can at least understand the excuse that it's replacing the gendered "you guys" -- I think this is a non-issue, but I see where they're coming from.
What I can't stand is when it's used instead of "people", "colleagues," "students," and other perfectly normal, genderless, and often more descriptive words.
For example, in a workplace discussion troubleshooting a software bug: "Some folks have reported that doing X fixes the problem."
I never would've used "guys" in that sentence, so I don't get why anyone would use "folks" in that context.

I find it incredibly distracting every time it's used because I'm certain no one feels natural using it.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

"Folks" has been brought up here before but it's annoying me more and more, and I almost can't believe it's stuck around this long (people were complaining about it in this thread over 2 years ago!)

I can at least understand the excuse that it's replacing the gendered "you guys" -- I think this is a non-issue, but I see where they're coming from.
What I can't stand is when it's used instead of "people", "colleagues," "students," and other perfectly normal, genderless, and often more descriptive words.
For example, in a workplace discussion troubleshooting a software bug: "Some folks have reported that doing X fixes the problem."
I never would've used "guys" in that sentence, so I don't get why anyone would use "folks" in that context.

I find it incredibly distracting every time it's used because I'm certain no one feels natural using it.

My personal conspiracy theory is that, somewhere up the chain, it's an attempt to take "folk" from righties using it in relation to family/ethnicity/nationality/race. Especially when written as "folx"

 

[Fukase]

That reminded me how much "folx" pisses me off as well. Theres no point to the 'x'. I haven't seen it used much recently though. Maybe this is just me, but: I noticed that outside of a few dumb teenagers online the weird esoteric "Tumblr speak" like folx and neopronouns that was big in the 2010s is sort of going to the wayside, probably in an attempt to get their batshit ideas to seem more mainstream and normal.

 

[The Last Stand]

>Race: White
>Ethnicity: Non-Hispanic

Why is this description necessary?

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Why is this description necessary?

Because in the US "hispanics" are considered part of the "White" race, officially. Hispanic/Latino are subsections of White for the purpose of census documents, etc.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

internalized:

When combined with a buzzword for "bad" -- like "racism", "misogyny", "white supremacy" -- it seems it's "woke"-speak for "adopting wrongthink", like with "radicalized".

 

[Joey-The-Chud]

Yikes ( easily the most insufferable woke/leftist term ever created, everytime some idiot responds to a based comment using this term they should immediately be shoved into the nearest locker ) .

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Yikes

Which can be followed by "let's unpack this", which really seems to mean "let me make up BS why I think this is bad".

 

[Cannibal Machine]

Another "word" that's unfortunately becoming more popular; delulu.
It's delusional, you troglodytes. Say the whole word and stop bringing down the IQ of everyone around you.

 

[Local Fed]

Another "word" that's unfortunately becoming more popular; delulu.

If someone ever said that to me I'd assume that they're craycray.