"Current year" terms that piss you off

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Tuff

 

[Meth Dick]

I may have said it before in the thread but I can't remember if I sperged about it or not, but I really fucking hate the term "fandom". Maybe it's just the usual suspects using it is why I hate it so much, but it has this air of "my entire personality hinges on being a fan of this show/singer/rapper/game etc."

 

[ToroidalBoat]

women

The term itself is definitely not unique to Current Year, nor is the word "women" automatically an annoyance. But as I have observed, delusional activists of Clown World use the term "women" in this rather collectivist, reverent tone... usually in a "men bad" context. I do not see SJWs say "woman", unless they are talking about a man in a dress.

 

[Hemlock Latte]

"Ways of knowing"
as in "Indigenous ways of knowing." It is like knowledge, but different somehow.

I'm not trying to be pedantic but your way of knowing something (epistemology) is different than the thing you know (knowledge). Traditional cultures learn and teach things a lot differently than modern ones. I like the idea of "two-eyed seeing" which is basically synthesizing traditional indigenous knowledge and modern scientific knowledge.

 

[Hemlock Latte]

It is different because it’s animal worship Stone Age nonsense, not knowledge.

My inner Ted K has it that the former maintained balance with the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years, whereas the latter generated an economic death cult that has us staring down the barrel of extinction in just over 530. There's a difference between "worshipping" animals and respecting them as "other nations... fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of Earth" (to quote Henry Beston).

 

[Itchy Hemorrhoids]

My inner Ted K has it that the former maintained balance with the natural world for hundreds of thousands of years, whereas the latter generated an economic death cult that has us staring down the barrel of extinction in just over 530. There's a difference between "worshipping" animals and respecting them as "other nations... fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of Earth" (to quote Henry Beston).

They lived in balance because they didn’t have antibiotics.

 

[Hemlock Latte]

They lived in balance because they didn’t have antibiotics.

Of course, this isn't a black-and-white, zero-sum sort of thing. It's as misguided to romanticize the past as it is to romanticize "progress." I'm happy I was born after the invention of dental anaesthetics. The main problems are alienation from nature and a belief in infinite progress tied to finite resources.

Two books that shaped my outlook, neither particularly partisan, neither anti-European, were The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2015) and Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta (2019). Out of everything I've read recently on what the relationship between human beings and the natural world ought to look like, and why it matters, those two take the cake. Happy to talk about why if people are interested.

 

[Hemlock Latte]

"Yikes" as a word existed long before the redditspeak shit but I know the exact fucking inflection and implication here, the fucking "holier than thou" yikes, not actually shocked yikes.

Ditto any millennial-, Twitter-coded slang. "I was today years old," "The math isn't mathing," "adulting," "I did a thing," "amazeballs," then some variation of "fuck" every other word as though they're writing for HBO. Incredibly unfortunate to encounter otherwise intelligent people who talk like this without a shred of irony. Recently read Genocide Bad: Notes on Palestine, Jewis History, and Collective Liberation by Sim Kern (2025) and it was remarkable in its scope and explanatory power but fettered on every page by its cringey millennialspeak.

 

[DoomsdayElite]

"Who's here in (current year)?" on a video. Please touch a live power line, or at least try determining whether you have any real personality.

 

[The Hardest R]

"Partner." Apparently some non-hetero couples can't just say "spouse", they have to pretend they're JUST LIKE THE STRAIGHTS while also being unique and different and special. Fucking brainless nonsense.

In my experience, the only one who uses “partner” in real life are zoomer white girls who hope their straight boyfriends and husbands can be “queer coded” by being ambiguous in hopes she can be considered queer. By keeping it vague, she hopes there is a chance you think she’s with a person of alphabet.

Her: My partner and I went to the farmer’s market.
Me: Partner? You mean your husband?
Her: …Yes.

Takes a couple interactions before she drops the faggy pretense and just says that her and her husband went to the farmer’s market.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I like the idea of "two-eyed seeing" which is basically synthesizing traditional indigenous knowledge and modern scientific knowledge.

I do not think a worldview that makes stuff up is compatible with a worldview that figures stuff out. The former seems to think nature works via "magic" and is full of made-up deities or magical ghosts (nature spirits), while the latter figures out and describes the workings of nature via the scientific method. Either way, and despite what SJWs say, those former older ways aren't "intellectual property" of brown people, they can't be "stolen" or "appropriated" by copying, and don't need "protection" by restriction.

It's as misguided to romanticize the past as it is to romanticize "progress."

Without civilization, you get complete freedom because no laws... but life is naturally a lot more dangerous and at the mercy of the BS of nature. And with civilization, you do not have to be at the mercy of nature anymore, and can live far safer... but there are laws -- at least some of which are needed -- which can get excessive or tyrannical.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Lmao guys I was looking at memes and saw this. Behold a new tiktok-speak word...

CRINE
Definitely meant to be "crying". A lot of tiktok-speak has a theme of writing things like they sound. For example you've got:
-ion (I don't)
-imma/ima (I'm gonna)
-sum/sumn (some/something)
-finna (fixing to)

referring to websites as "apps"

I only observe this in cases of websites that have mobile app versions. So basically if you primarily use the thing on your phone, you'll subconsciously think of it as an app (while being aware that there's a browser version). And vice versa. Generally speaking. Like reddit, pinterest, tiktok, xitter, instagram, youtube, etc etc etc. It just depends on which version you were exposed to first and/or use the most.

Random extra thoughts~
Recently I've seen many ppl arguing about whether "ts" means this or this shit. We've reached a point where tiktok-speak is evolving so fast that nobody can even keep up! Lol!
Has "unc" been mentioned here yet? A term short for uncle I'm sure, but now jokingly means early gen z and older. Maybe cuz we are now old enough to be uncles and aunts lol. I've seen meme posts like "when you realize you lowkey hit unc status" by zoomers.
"Cornball" is a recent term. I mean yeah it's been a word for ages, but it's now being used as a mild insult in place of cringe.
I've been seeing these emojis everywhere especially the rose. People just attach it to the end of any sentence. I think this is due to some research going viral that those 2 are among the least used emojis, so people are spamming them.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

Baddie and similar niggerspeak

 

[Hemlock Latte]

crine, ion, ima, sum, finna . . . unc [etc.]

What's truly annoying is that this is "TikTok slang" or "Gen Z slang" to the uninitiated but it's all borrowed from AAVE (African American Vernacular English) and to a lesser extent SAE (Southern American English). I have a twentysomething white, Midwestern friend who can't stand the way TikTokers have taken to pronouncing "ahh" phonetically in the last year or so, with the / a / as in "father." Her Black friends have said it her entire life, and it's typically pronounced like "ass" with the / s / dropped. Of course language changes, that's where a lot of AAVE came from in the first place, but it's annoying to see it change because of clueless unfamiliarity.

 

[Book Thief]

It's not exactly a "Current Year Term," but it's getting a lot of use in Current Year, particularly here on the Farms, and it definitely aggravates me for very personal reasons.

"Indian."

Every time I read a post on here on complaining about "Indians taking jobs" or what-have-you, I have to pause to remember that people are talking about street-shitters. See, I grew up in the 90's and 2000's, and what we now call "Native Americans" were called "Indians" at the time, and I still feel the ramifications of that upbringing to this day. So I guess as a PSA to my fellow Kiwis, for the sake of my sanity, please stick to calling them "pajeets." Indians are noble savages who run casinos and get drunk off DIY beer, who do not deserve to be associated with tech scammers calling up grandma claiming to be John Smith from Microsoft.

 

[There Is Light At The End]

It's not exactly a "Current Year Term," but it's getting a lot of use in Current Year, particularly here on the Farms, and it definitely aggravates me for very personal reasons.

"Indian."

Every time I read a post on here on complaining about "Indians taking jobs" or what-have-you, I have to pause to remember that people are talking about street-shitters. See, I grew up in the 90's and 2000's, and what we now call "Native Americans" were called "Indians" at the time, and I still feel the ramifications of that upbringing to this day. So I guess as a PSA to my fellow Kiwis, for the sake of my sanity, please stick to calling them "pajeets." Indians are noble savages who run casinos and get drunk off DIY beer, who do not deserve to be associated with tech scammers calling up grandma claiming to be John Smith from Microsoft.

Simple distinction - injun are with feathers, Indians are street shitters

 

[Hemlock Latte]

...what we now call "Native Americans" were called "Indians" at the time...

As I understand a lot of indigenous people in the U.S. still don't mind being called "Indian" whereas in Canada it's less acceptable than "First Nations," which is also gaining traction is Australia. Ditto "Eskimo" mostly being fine in Alaska but definitely not in Canada where "Inuit" (pl.)/"Inuk" (s.) is the norm.

...those former older ways aren't "intellectual property" of brown people...

I think the whole IP thing is overblown, I don't see any of my indigenous friends seriously talking about that. I mean, granted, no matter how impractical an idea someone somewhere will be a serious proponent of it, I'm just saying, I don't see it. And I agree, European ancestors were very much indigenous, very much shared those (apologies to Dr. God) ways of knowing. The more I learn about the Celts in particular the more I'm struck by this. That's one of the parallels Yunkaporta draws in his book.

 

[The greater a'tuin]

I may have said it before in the thread but I can't remember if I sperged about it or not, but I really fucking hate the term "fandom". Maybe it's just the usual suspects using it is why I hate it so much, but it has this air of "my entire personality hinges on being a fan of this show/singer/rapper/game etc."

Fandom is a convenient short-hand to identify familiarity with a particular fan base communities.

women

The term itself is definitely not unique to Current Year, nor is the word "women" automatically an annoyance. But as I have observed, delusional activists of Clown World use the term "women" in this rather collectivist, reverent tone... usually in a "men bad" context. I do not see SJWs say "woman", unless they are talking about a man in a dress.

It's only bothersome when used as an adjective.

It's not exactly a "Current Year Term," but it's getting a lot of use in Current Year, particularly here on the Farms, and it definitely aggravates me for very personal reasons.

"Indian."

Every time I read a post on here on complaining about "Indians taking jobs" or what-have-you, I have to pause to remember that people are talking about street-shitters. See, I grew up in the 90's and 2000's, and what we now call "Native Americans" were called "Indians" at the time, and I still feel the ramifications of that upbringing to this day. So I guess as a PSA to my fellow Kiwis, for the sake of my sanity, please stick to calling them "pajeets." Indians are noble savages who run casinos and get drunk off DIY beer, who do not deserve to be associated with tech scammers calling up grandma claiming to be John Smith from Microsoft.

Blame Columbus for being a retard and not the farmers who want accurate competitive racism.

 

[Mad_Dog]

x-coded
leverage
unpack
adjacent
gaslight
trauma dump
love bombing
trigger
unnecessary censorship (eg s*icide, pdf file,...)
trauma bonding
gatekeeping
emotional labor
hyper-focus
grifter
slop

 

[AndSothisIsChristmas]

It's not exactly a "Current Year Term," but it's getting a lot of use in Current Year, particularly here on the Farms, and it definitely aggravates me for very personal reasons.

"Indian."

Every time I read a post on here on complaining about "Indians taking jobs" or what-have-you, I have to pause to remember that people are talking about street-shitters. See, I grew up in the 90's and 2000's, and what we now call "Native Americans" were called "Indians" at the time, and I still feel the ramifications of that upbringing to this day. So I guess as a PSA to my fellow Kiwis, for the sake of my sanity, please stick to calling them "pajeets." Indians are noble savages who run casinos and get drunk off DIY beer, who do not deserve to be associated with tech scammers calling up grandma claiming to be John Smith from Microsoft.

It helps that most of the feather Indians are dead or live on such tiny and useless plots of land that you’re never gonna see one.