"Current year" terms that piss you off

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Lyrics to any song that is popular on Tiktok. You're a certified freak 7 days a week, huh? Why aren't you working at a sideshow? Don't even get me started on the one about hotdogs and homies.

They're shocked. It's ingrained in them that saying "nigger" is like saying "Avada kedavra" from Harry Potter; saying it will insta-kill the closest melanin rich individual.

You sure that doesn't arouse them?

I've grown to really hate slashes, hyphens, and periods in tweets thanks to Twitter. It's always used in the conjunction of shit like this:

What is it even trying to prevent? That people don't see it when scrolling down? Wouldn't they not even see the post at all???

Which brings me to my next point: What even is a "trigger" anymore? I've seen the word thrown around so much that I don't even know what said topic "triggers"; does it trigger anger? Fear? "Dissociation"? I've seen someone sperg about "dissociating" because some MYCT stan didn't tag their gross guro porn or whatever.

It's supposed to be for people with PTSD. Good intentions, awful execution.

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

"Decolonize" is an insufferably stupid sounding word.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I've grown to really hate slashes, hyphens, and periods in tweets thanks to Twitter. It's always used in the conjunction of shit like this:

What is it even trying to prevent? That people don't see it when scrolling down? Wouldn't they not even see the post at all???

Which brings me to my next point: What even is a "trigger" anymore? I've seen the word thrown around so much that I don't even know what said topic "triggers"; does it trigger anger? Fear? "Dissociation"? I've seen someone sperg about "dissociating" because some MYCT stan didn't tag their gross guro porn or whatever.

I think it started as "please let me know if i am clicking on goatse or some other degenerate august underground type shit please" which is and understandable courtesy. But now is just literally anything.

I mean, tagging some genuinely awful content under a warning is something that can be done without issue, but when literally everything is potentially tard rage inducing for someone the solution is for that person to gtfo the internet. If someone is that mentally broken they have bigger concerns anyways.

 

[A Grey Cat]

woke, if it's supposed to be a reference to they live. people who use woke unironically have clearly never seen they live.

 

[“Fun”times]

I’m already despising the phrase “stop Asian hate”. I never had hatred in my heart for any race, but now they’re gonna shove this shit down my throat and I’m upset that I might become more reluctant to interact with normal down to earth Asians. Not to mention it’s just the most obvious power grab and funny to see how quickly BLM was dropped for this shit.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

"Decolonize" is an insufferably stupid sounding word.

Fitting that it is always used to mean "dumb this stuff down for potatoes." How else am I supposed to interpret the idea of decolonizing science or math?

 

[Nero You're DeadWeight]

I’m already despising the phrase “stop Asian hate”. I never had hatred in my heart for any race, but now they’re gonna shove this shit down my throat and I’m upset that I might become more reluctant to interact with normal down to earth Asians. Not to mention it’s just the most obvious power grab and funny to see how quickly BLM was dropped for this shit.

Can't wait until Asian's fall off the bus and join "white" when it doesn't fit the agenda anymore. Asian's are only minority when it fits.

I don't hate any race either, but GOD I was not expecting to see "remember #stopasainhate" at 3 AM before my damn anime airs on toonami of all places. They had a BLM thing too, but my question is are they going to throw sounds of a gun firing or some shit on Nick in the middle of the afternoon like they did with the black screen and BLM at it's height? If so god help those poor kids if Nick pulls something like that.

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

I’m already despising the phrase “stop Asian hate”. I never had hatred in my heart for any race, but now they’re gonna shove this shit down my throat and I’m upset that I might become more reluctant to interact with normal down to earth Asians. Not to mention it’s just the most obvious power grab and funny to see how quickly BLM was dropped for this shit.

That's not going to go down well. BLM and its activists can't stand not being in the centre of attention.

 

[SneedKing]

I’m holding out for 2020 being the return to sanity when the term goes obsolete. Hopefully 2019 will see it die.

Just started looking through this thread and damn this from page 3 in 2019 is some feels shit

 

[Windows XP Home Edition]

"yOu'Re PaRt oF tHe PrObLeM" Oh fuck off! Someone not agreeing with you on everything doesn't make them problematic. Usually, the people who say this phrase are hypocrites who are also adding fire to the flames.

 

[keyboredsm4shthe2nd]

"yOu'Re PaRt oF tHe PrObLeM" Oh fuck off! Someone not agreeing with you on everything doesn't make them problematic. Usually, the people who say this phrase are hypocrites who are also adding fire to the flames.

If you meet assholes all day...

 

[The Last Stand]

GTA 6. Between the numerous clickbait articles, speculation, rabid fanbase, and overall autism surrounding it, any mention of it just irks me.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

I've come to realize it's not these terms that piss me off, but it's the people that are using them.

That’s the truth, isn’t it. Half of the “current year” dictionary has real meaning, and the people constantly using it wrong dilutes that meaning to the point of making you hate the word by Pavlovian reflex. Gaslighting is real, but disagreeing with their emotion-based argument is not gaslighting. Things that would evoke common and severe traumas might be worthy of trigger warnings, not someone saying mean words. And anything related to epidemiology comes under this due to the Wuhan Coronavirus.

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[Toolbox]

GTA 6. Between the numerous clickbait articles, speculation, rabid fanbase, and overall autism surrounding it, any mention of it just irks me.

There's not even a reason for Rockstar to make it. They continually make bank on 5 through it's online with it's pay to win garbage, and have thus chosen to just continually re-release 5 indefinitely on successive consoles. It's been on three different generations so far. It's their skyrim except it prints money at 10x the rate. The production of six would be so expensive that recouping the costs would take way longer than just updating 5. The "news" that 6 is somehow far into development has been nothing but rumors for years.

 

[The Last Stand]

There's not even a reason for Rockstar to make it. They continually make bank on 5 through it's online with it's pay to win garbage, and have thus chosen to just continually re-release 5 indefinitely on successive consoles. It's been on three different generations so far. It's their skyrim except it prints money at 10x the rate. The production of six would be so expensive that recouping the costs would take way longer than just updating 5. The "news" that 6 is somehow far into development has been nothing but rumors for years.

GTA is a victim of its own success.

 

[Meat Target]

woke, if it's supposed to be a reference to they live. people who use woke unironically have clearly never seen they live.

Are you sure about that? I always thought it was saying "those who aren't aware of the state of the world are asleep". Such a metaphor goes back to at least biblical times.

 

[Sperghetti]

Grift and Gaslight

Fuck, its like the internet is a two year old that learned a new word

Which brings me to my next point: What even is a "trigger" anymore? I've seen the word thrown around so much that I don't even know what said topic "triggers"; does it trigger anger? Fear? "Dissociation"? I've seen someone sperg about "dissociating" because some MYCT stan didn't tag their gross guro porn or whatever.

Something interesting I've noticed is that people absolutely love words and concepts that originated in therapy, self-help, or support environments.

Toxic is a good one. It used to be used in self-help and support groups to describe a person or situation that was harmful to be around and unlikely to ever change for the better, so your best bet is to stop trying to fix it or hold out for a miracle and just abandon ship. Now it gets used for anytime something is merely unpleasant or rude, to the point where you have people apologizing for "being toxic".

A safe space used to be shorthand for "yes, you can openly talk about that sensitive topic here and people won't get on your case about it".

Triggers were, as said before, something that effected people with PTSD, but they've also diluted PTSD to be more or less the state of being uncomfortable with something.

And gaslighting is no longer a deliberate attempt to make somebody doubt themselves and think they're crazy, but merely somebody disagreeing with your version of events.

There's that well-known concept of the euphimism treadmill where clinical terms become insults so people keep having to come up with nicer, less-offensive terms to replace them. Personally, I think we also have an exaggeration treadmill: Any word that's used to denote a specific (usually negative) state of affairs will become so overused by people who want you to take their mild problems seriously that the word eventually gets drained of all original meaning and becomes a red flag for identifying drama queens.

 

[Psyduck]

Something interesting I've noticed is that people absolutely love words and concepts that originated in therapy, self-help, or support environments.

Toxic is a good one. It used to be used in self-help and support groups to describe a person or situation that was harmful to be around and unlikely to ever change for the better, so your best bet is to stop trying to fix it or hold out for a miracle and just abandon ship. Now it gets used for anytime something is merely unpleasant or rude, to the point where you have people apologizing for "being toxic".

A safe space used to be shorthand for "yes, you can openly talk about that sensitive topic here and people won't get on your case about it".

Triggers were, as said before, something that effected people with PTSD, but they've also diluted PTSD to be more or less the state of being uncomfortable with something.

And gaslighting is no longer a deliberate attempt to make somebody doubt themselves and think they're crazy, but merely somebody disagreeing with your version of events.

There's that well-known concept of the euphimism treadmill where clinical terms become insults so people keep having to come up with nicer, less-offensive terms to replace them. Personally, I think we also have an exaggeration treadmill: Any word that's used to denote a specific (usually negative) state of affairs will become so overused by people who want you to take their mild problems seriously that the word eventually gets drained of all original meaning and becomes a red flag for identifying drama queens.

Right here, you got it right my man

Ive heard "Toxic" used to describe something as dumb as just being rude lol, and "Gaslight" has replaced the word "Lie"

 

[Lowlife Adventures]

"Ratio"

There's this trend on Twitter where zoomers would reply "ratio" to tweets from any popular account, as if saying 'ratio' will magically give your tweet more traction. Fortunately, they usually get made fun of. It really isn't as clever as they think it is.

 

[round robin]

Adding "-gate" to the end of any scandal/conspiracy/happening, especially because most of these retards are either unaware of Watergate or have no idea what it was about. Also it was called the "Watergate scandal" because it actually happened at the fucking Watergate complex, you mongs.