"Current year" terms that piss you off

[M0JY0]

• UwU: used by people trying to sound cute and is popular on Tumblr and Twitter. It’s a favorite word perpetual womanchildren like to add to the ends of phrases.

I didn't even realize it was used unironically, I've always said it as a joke. That would irritate the fuck out of me.

I don't think it is as common now because "cultural appropriation," but it reminds me of the hardcore weebs from high school who used to speak a combination of English and Japanese. "OoOoh! The neko-chan is so kawaii!! Sugoi!" I guess those types also throw "uwu" and "nyah~" at the end of every sentence nowadays.

 

[M0JY0]

Also, "shit's lit fam." Stop it. I think it is just me but I hate 'lit' as an adjective.

 

[Local Fed]

Also, "shit's lit fam." Stop it. I think it is just me but I hate 'lit' as an adjective.

I use this ironically all of the time with friends. I'll never not love how stupid it sounds.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Childless women calling their pets “furbabies”
The term furbaby just sounds weird, it sounds more a toy line of dolls for little girls than something an old woman would call their cat.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I really do miss the world before Clown World.

No smartphones, no social media, no face masks, no "social distancing"...

And of course, no endless new shitty buzzwords (spread by social media).

 

[sleazetown]

"Significant Other" sounds like a term a robot or alien would use to describe somebody's gf/bf/spouse.

Also, worthy video for the thread:

https://youtu.be/o25I2fzFGoY

 

[Ma Wang]

*Vegas, where * is a shortened version of another place. "NashVegas", for example.

Have some fucking pride in what makes your city unique.

 

[Very Clever Nickname]

If you know you know, used by basic, middle aged FB people for whom changing their toilet paper is something worth squawking about.

 

[MellowAdonis]

Here's some
'Enby' is really annoying. It's just slang used by trannies for non binary people, but it's just really annoying and retarded to see.
'Vaild' is used by trannies and tranny allies to basically 'validate' someone's transitioning gender from what I infer, perhaps I am wrong.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

“Practice self love” sounds like a slang term for masturbation.

 

[Jesus Swept]

Using 'Adult' as a verb.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

Big dick energy.
No comment

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Buzzwords can be invented earlier, only to be picked up later.

I just learned that "social distancing" isn't really a "Current Year" term. In the December 2009 issue of National Geographic, it's mentioned (using quotes) in section on the swine flu.

Of course I never heard the term until 2020, so it must've stayed obscure until people realized they could use it as a buzzword.

 

[Kartoshki]

Not really a "term" per se, but I absolutely abhor the very smug, passive aggressive form of typing. You know the kind; when they start a post with "ummmm," spit out some retarded shit, and then end it by holding down their question mark key.

TL;DR, I cannot stand Twitterfags.

 

[This is civil society]

"do be" used instead of "are"/"am"

 

[OvercookedBacon]

Not really terms, but things that chap my ass on social media:
- People inserting the clap emoji in - between - every - single - word.
- Repeating statements to try and make a point. Repeating statements to try and make a point. Repeating statements to try and make a point. Doubly irritating when paired with the clap emoji.
- As mentioned in the "things that that personally piss you off" thread: people who use like twelve "face with tears of joy" emoji, especially when it's discussing something like personal stories or child abuse, etc. Fuck the vast majority of Facebook.
- The very idea of trying to get MAP to be socially acceptable.

 

[Meat Target]

"do be" used instead of "are"/"am"

They think it don't be like it is, but it do.

 

[JohnLenin]

Here's one, neurodivergent. It's a pretty broad term and it's been around for awhile but recently I've been seeing it used casually on twitter. It's become just another word autists use in place of autistic instead. They've formed their own little community and typically gatekeep shit they think makes them autistic from liking rawr XD scene shit, warrior cat books and whatever else they liked as kids. Pretty autistic ngl.

Hate the rise of the word "latinx". Bring that to most places in central america and you will be laughed at.

As if latinx wasn't bad enough they're doing this with other words too and it looks ridiculous. Really hate that it's gotten popular during this whole quarantine/riots shit all of sudden everyone's an activist.

 

[Meat Target]

I really hate how any time some Blue Check or wokeist viral video gets ratio'd, or some actor or piece of entertainment gets panned on social media, the accusation of "trolls" or "brigading" is their inevitable response to the negative feedback.

"Is it possible that my opinion is shit?"
"No, it's the unwashed masses that are wrong!"

Addendum: I also can't stand it when such criticism is LITERALLY VIOLENCE. Like when Chelsea Van Valkenberg or John Walker Brianna Flynt Wu call themselves "survivors" of GamerGate.

 

[Big Brown Schlub]

As if latinx wasn't bad enough they're doing this with other words too and it looks ridiculous. Really hate that it's gotten popular during this whole quarantine/riots shit all of sudden everyone's an activi

I remember some Soros-funded NGO in my country started this campaign about how sexist our language is. Like most European languages my first language which is Slavic has all nouns gendered, as well as all nouns which relate to humans in any way, like for example occupations, can be make to be masculine or feminine, that ability also makes it possible to create nouns which are completely impossible in the real world - like for example pregnant man.
That campaign that I mentioned folded in the first month after they went to schools around the country and had kids try to "guess" what the feminine version of masculine nouns such as soldier, wise man, butcher, truck driver, statesman etc. is. Their hypothesis was that since our society is so systematically sexist that kids won't know how to make feminine nouns out of the masculine version of them because there's very few women working those jobs or having such positions. But then they did, even kids who had shitty grades solved their test with an average of 80% of their answers being correct.