"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Darksy DePhil]

not really a term but every time i see stupid fav-whoring take tweets with emojis (specially those popular among k-pop stans, like , and specially ) i feel allowing women use the internet was a mistake.

 

[Max Doof]

I've seen people either on twitter or Instagram write "sweety" as "sweaty" and it irks me on multiple levels.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

"Gender essentialist". It's a good way to pick out who's a total cunt.

 

[AprilRains]

"Gender essentialist". It's a good way to pick out who's a total cunt.

what even is that

 

[Eris!]

Counter-point: it's finally socially acceptable to opt out of surveillance cameras and automatic facial recognition. Masks are a huge step back for 1984.

Faces have irregular coloring which a computer can confuse for shadows and all kinds of shit like that. A mask has uniform coloring or a textured pattern which a computer can more easily read the contours of. If anything, face masks are a conspiracy by the surveillance state to get better data.

 

[Dick Justice]

Faces have irregular coloring which a computer can confuse for shadows and all kinds of shit like that. A mask has uniform coloring or a textured pattern which a computer can more easily read the contours of. If anything, face masks are a conspiracy by the surveillance state to get better data.

You can't just take off your face and wear a different one whenever you want (yet). Further every face is unique, how low do you have to go to tell the difference between two different surgical masks?

 

[Eris!]

how low do you have to go to tell the difference between two different surgical masks?

If it fits tightly on your face the mask will give excellent data on the physical shape of your face without any of the potentially corrupting inputs of an irregularly colored and ambiguous face would. If they could make us all be textureless magenta and black checkerboards their technology would work better.

 

[Cybertonian]

"Gaslighting". While it is a real phenomenon, it's become so far removed from its original meaning in usage that it's ridiculous. It's used to refer to any type of negative interaction or disagreement at this point

 

[Eris!]

what even is that

Essentialism is the idea that things have inherent natures. Gender essentialism is the belief that gender roles are inherent to genders themselves and not socially constructed. It's also used to refer to people who view gender and sex as indistinct from one another, and that human beings have essential genders which are not up to them and which they cannot change.

It's also known as being sane.

 

[Anja Din]

lit, fire, fam, toxic (toxic has to be the most irritating, it’s the go-to for any sjw who throws a tantrum that someone is laughing at them).

I've seen people either on twitter or Instagram write "sweety" as "sweaty" and it irks me on multiple levels.

ugh when the trashiest sperglord hits on you online and being mostly just annoyed he can’t fucking spell

 

[Eris!]

lit, fire, fam, toxic (toxic has to be the most irritating, it’s the go-to for any sjw who throws a tantrum that someone is laughing at them).



ugh when the trashiest sperglord hits on you online and being mostly just annoyed he can’t fucking spell

It's a meme dude. People spell it that way on purpose.

 

[Evil Betty]

"Heteronormative"

Gee, it's almost as if straight people are the overwhelming majority.

 

[Totally Awesome]

Companies like Amazon and Facebook are already developing face scanning technologies. Everybody wearing masks is just fucking it up because these companies can't scan the full face in public.

 

[Clockwork_PurBle]

This is one of the worst. I can imagine the people who support this don't live anywhere near Latino/Hispanic people or interact with them unless they're doing their yard work or bathrooms, and had this uncontrollable rage that both Hispanic men and women would be called "Latino" despite it being masculine while it can be gender neutral when describing both sexes.

Yes exactly. Male lions are called lions, females are lionesses, but they're both "lions." Latino is actually a gender neutral term that just also refers to males specifically, but that's not good enough for them.

Also @doof it is very common for people to spell "sweetie" as "sweaty" to be ironic, or at least a lot of people do that on tumblr.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

at least a lot of people do that on tumblr.

That must be an in-joke referencing how nobody on there showers.

 

[Lapis Lazuli]

When people give their emojis dark skin.

Like, what's the point? Actually, why did Apple even add this feature in the first place when the yellow skin worked just fine?

 

[The Wizard]

Not a term, but I get annoyed when people intentionally pronounce non-English words in whatever-the-fuck accent, just to sound culturally enlightened or something. By nature, these pronunciations are always wrong and always in the context of the speaker trying to virtue signal.

E.g., The word Iroquois is generally pronounced like "Ear-row-kwah," but I learned from a green-haired girl in a college English class that the correct way is something like "Ur-w0w-kwo-wee." The weird inflections are burned into my memory because she had to mention that she once dated an Iroquois boy, no fewer than three times every time the topic of Native Americans came up.

not really a term but every time i see stupid fav-whoring take tweets with emojis (specially those popular among k-pop stans, like , and specially ) i feel allowing women use the internet was a mistake.

Emojis were a mistake.

 

[FluffyTehFennekin]

“Everyone I disagree with is an SJW”
It’s just “everyone I disagree with is a nazi” but on the opposite side of the autism political spectrum.

 

[FuckedUp]

Not a current year term per se, but "virtual" has become a word that makes my skin crawl over the past seven months.

 

[Nig ward]

"New normal"

Getting tired of NPC's always saying "Wear the mask!".