"Current year" terms that piss you off

[ToroidalBoat]

Never forget how good things used to be.

Movies are overall worse.

Vidyas are overall worse.

Western comics are worse.

One would have to be either too young to recall the world before Current Year, very much "gaslit", or both to think this world is merely changing rather than getting worse.

 

[Wot Zit Too Yah0996]

"They don't make music like this anymore!" It's one that never seems to fuck off. There were times when "old" music sucked cock, too.

 

[Brain Power]

COVID.
uwu teh pandemic do u remember it and teh COVID so heckin scawy 2020 lockdowns haha

 

[DoomsdayElite]

Based. It's overused, and now I see it as the mark of a moron.

 

[Lone Star]

"Doubling down" which isn't bad on its own. It just seems like I hear it fucking constantly. Especially when someone triples or even quadruples down.

 

[Local Wordmason]

When women say shit gives them "the ick". Not only does it sound retarded, its just as a copout so they don't have to say they dislike something for shallow reasons. Its always shit like men being vulnerable, like showing strong emotion or doing something deemed "un-masculine" too. Never actual shit that would be justifiable use of the term.

Also I have heard the terms "rhetoric" and "dogwhistle" used to death and I'm convinced 90% of the people using them don't know what they actually mean. (e.g. Redditors)

 

[Turquoise]

Sports stars saying, "I'm just staying humble".

What could be less humble than announcing your own humility?

 

[AspieNextDoor]

-Fuck Around Find Out/FAFO - every time I see it it's used is by the biggest, lamest faggot imagineable. In the US politics thread I once saw a post of some Twitter talking head calling his grandma a dumb bitch for voting for Trump and saying thet she is not invited to Thanksgiving, which he ended with "FAFO".

-Slams, sometimes Blasts - used in news headlines (often capitalized) in place of 'disagrees' or 'doesn't like', for example "Kamala Harris SLAMS Republicans' new budget proposal". No, you sensationist faggot, she didn't SLAM anything, she made passive-aggressive gotcha reply nobody gives a shit about.

-Community Standards/Guidlines - implies that whatever is written there was collectivelly made by everyone using the site, instead of a bunch of jeet technocrats and their janny golems.

-Community instead of Fanbase/Fandom - you're a Discord tranny jacking off to characters' fanart, we're not a community, we have nothing in common, I don't know you, FUCK OFF

-Can we talk about X - used in youtube comments not even to start a discussion, to point something obvious out and get asspats for it. Like under a video of someone playing cello "Can we talk about how much skill and determination it takes to play like that?" No we can't retard, there is nothing to talk about, what you just said is obvious to everyone with a brain.

-Anything said in a exaggerrated British accent online - I think anyone in this thread knows at least one British youtuber/tiktoker/whatever who speaks in this extremely fake-sounding, elongated accent (I can't describe it any better) because they think it makes them sound smarter or funnier. It grinds my ears whenever I hear it. This could be the example.

 

[Psyduck]

"Bing Bing Wahoo" has to be a reference, i dont understand why else would people here type that instead of "game"

Staying on that, people typing references in place of actual words, even worse when it's some obscure shit no one other than you knew about. Recently saw someone refer to a guy's balding as "norwooding", because of the Norwood scale of baldness patterns iirc.

You dont have to be le witty all the time. Just communicate like a normal human being

 

[⚞⛇⚟]

Not a word in particular, but I hate it when people start repeating shit that short-form video algorithms push.
If it is a joke, then come up with something unique rather than taking something that you saw from the internet.
If it is anything political or deep, DO RESEARCH RETARD!!!!! Watching a 60 second video where someone that thinks that they are better than you smugly explains their boring and/or batshit-insane views doesn't count.
If it is general phrase that you use consistently, such as unalive, than your brain has already been grinded into some weird ground beef. You have no future, so you should immigrate to Canada and MAID yourself as soon as possible.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

-Anything said in a exaggerrated British accent online - I think anyone in this thread knows at least one British youtuber/tiktoker/whatever who speaks in this extremely fake-sounding, elongated accent (I can't describe it any better) because they think it makes them sound smarter or funnier. It grinds my ears whenever I hear it. This could be the example.

Blame Jeremy Clarkson for popularizing this presenting style. Though his fellow presenter Tiff Needell was probably the genesis for it:

 

[AverageQuarianEnjoyer]

Anything said in a exaggerrated British accent online - I think anyone in this thread knows at least one British youtuber/tiktoker/whatever who speaks in this extremely fake-sounding, elongated accent

Ryan Hollinger always says hyowever and it drives me crazy

 

[The Hardest R]

"Queer" is such a meaningless word now that I automatically assume someone unironically using it or "identifying" as one is a giant attention whore (swapping the words with some filter barely changes anything). Actually, add "identifying as (insert "le kweerky gendershit term" here)" too.

Queer just means you’re sexually attracted to attention.

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

"Muscle Mommy/GF" Any man who unironically uses this term is both gay and Freudian oedipus complex manchild.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

"Muscle Mommy/GF" Any man who unironically uses this term is both gay and Freudian oedipus complex manchild.

Are you fucking gay? What is gay about liking physically fit women, or are you convinced that nice abs and toned arms are the same as slapping tits on the Hulk?

 

[Mexican_Wizard_711]

Are you fucking gay? What is gay about liking physically fit women, or are you convinced that nice abs and toned arms are the same as slapping tits on the Hulk?

It's fine if people want to be healthy and fit. But the moment you constantly talk and drool about it, makes it me think that your abdude that wants to get fucked in the ass by a muscle ogres futa penis

 

[ToroidalBoat]

"Our Democracy™ is dead!"

It seems to be "woke" doublespeak for "Woke is eroding!" (which is a good thing). That or "the community" did not vote how SJWs want.

 

[Meth Dick]

Abbreviating season to "szn". I keep seeing it in ads and it makes the advertisers look trashy and illiterate.

Reminds me of when Mountain Dew became "Mtn Dew". It just struck me as lazy and retarded. I think I saw Pringles dumbed down to PRNGLS awhile back. This fucking modernized simplified logos trend is gay and retarded.
Also reminds me of when Sprite started putting nigger rapper and basketball player quotes on the bottle because they figured out blacks love Sprite for some fucking reason. I forget who it was but one of them quoted I think Lebron James and they actually spelled out the quotes in ebonics like nigger twitter speak. "Culture" was spelled out as "Culcha" for example.
Coke discontinued the ad campaign after not too long and I think it was because all it did was embolden blacks to steal Sprites more than they already did in the first place.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

othering

There are different kinds of people, and different ways and traditions. Acknowledging that reality -- "othering" -- isn't always bad.

 

[Willie B. Hardigan]

It's probably been said before, but "Slop" has become the new "Cringe" in the current-day internet lexicon.

At the start, I sorta liked the term when it was originally meant to describe unmistakably mass-produced products for mindless consumption. That all changed not even a year later once contrarian midwits found out about it and started using it to describe everything they don't like for whatever contrived personal reasons that they desperately feel the need to "legitimize" as anything beyond their basic-bitch personal preferences. It's not enough to call something garbage and leave it at that, no the world must know how above their intellect is to the common man. Give me a break dude, calling the Mona Lisa slop doesn't make you a misunderstood genius, just an insecure asshole not confident enough to live with their opinions quietly without babbling like a fool to every stranger they pass by online.

Since we're on the topic of language crutches I would also like to express my hatred of the word, "Mid" which is in a similar boat as being a word that a majority of people use to call something garbage, but without the stigma of actually calling it "bad" since that would cause conflict or a dialogue that they probably can't handle. You see it a lot on the more normie side of the internet with content creators because they are always walking on eggshells with their audience who will go livid at any signs of disagreement with popular opinions on pieces of media.

"You can't get mad at me calling that game or movie mid, because mediocre doesn't actually mean awful!" then they slink away like a pussy. Have the balls to call it garbage and stand by that opinion for fucks sake. People will have more respect for you if you don't mince your words like a scared child.