‘Slop’ - Commonly used to describe AI and is a common criticism of things people deem lacking in quality in entertainment mediums.
‘Slams’ - Commonly used in headlines to describe how critical someone’s views are towards another.
‘Slop’ is fine, it’s short and to the point and describes something for which we don’t quite have another word yet (in the context of AI) and which definitely needs to enter the public consciousness.
Agree on ‘Slams’ though.
Woke, it’s an American bullshit word that means whatever the speaker criticizes. It’s a shame that it got exported to other parts of the world.
It started as “I understand and acknowledge that our society has systemic inequality and I would like to change that”. Perfectly reasonable way of stating it succinctly. As in, “I woke up” to this fact.
Right-wing lunatics stole the term and make it “anything I don’t like”.
I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.
Right-wing people stole ‘Woke’ and associated it with SJWs and along with ‘snowflake’ too. To them, being ‘Woke’ meant that you’re aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you’re suddenly ‘Woke’ to them. ‘Snowflake’ is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.
Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they’re the ones crying up rivers over it.
Trump… as a non American, I would love to return to a world where don’t hear anything about their government…
From the US and I’m right there with you in spirit. So fucking sick of that pedo sucking the life out of our country, fucking over our old allies and being a shit talking unconscionable fuckwit. If his decisions didn’t directly affect my day to day existence I’d like nothing more than to take a year long media hiatus.
The words I must filter to have a somewhat decent Lemmy experience…
I never see kamala mentioned anymore. She fell off the map hard
Articles containing “here’s what we know”, “what you need to know”, etc in the title or headline. These “writers” should be court ordered to never post anything on the internet again.
AI.
“Here’s the kicker”
Anything suffixed by ‘bro’ to be disparaging.
Berniebro being the most annoying one lol
Hell ya braj
brah
Bro, really, it’s my favorite word, bro.
Why you gotta do me like that, bro?
Bro, it ain’t cool, bro
Unprecedented. I cannot recall a single time that word was used in the past five years to describe a situation or event that was without precedent.
Since COVID, the use of that word has got unprecedented levels.
British newspaper articles that start with
“Backlash against” followed by something the government has suggested doing.
And when you read the article, they have a quote from a single person saying it’ll hurt their business or something.
God am I tired of seeing backlash in that exact context. “City decides to help local residents but backlash mounts”. Then exactly that, some old guy who hates change being upset
Back in the day the equivalent was “controversy”, which was applied to every relevant news article and far too many inappropriate ones.
‘POV’ - then proceeds to present something that isn’t a first person perspective.
Oh, and “positive anymore”. That’s such a bastardization. It makes me cry.
What’s the context for “positive anymore”?
Anymore is intended to be used in a negative context. You can think of it as a substitution for “no longer”. Positive anymore is a blatant abuse, and would be better substituted for “nowadays” or similar.
Correct anymore: “I can’t stand it anymore.”
Positive (super wrong) anymore: “People’s grammar is really stupid anymore.”
Oh wow, I’ve never seen that but it makes me want to file a formal complaint.
“Cringe” used as an adjective. There’s a word for that already, it’s “cringeworthy”.
Also: “liquidy”. Runny, you mean?
No, the adjective is cringy
Agree with you on ‘liquidy’, though
Counterpoint: liquidy makes sense to non-native speakers also
So does runny. Why would they (or me, I’m a non-native speaker) know liquid but not runny?
Because liquid is a more common word (it is a scientific term too)
Yeah, I see that.
I’m with you on “slam” and any other pseudo-violent verb to make an otherwise milquetoast headline more attention-grabbing.
What really gets me is when it is applied to the mildest of vocal objections by some politician. Like, it’s not even clever wordplay, just dissent. None of this is worthy of the same vocabulary one would use to describe a WWE match, but here we are.
Sometimes, the news is kind of dull, and that’s okay.
Problematic - it’s just so lazy. Makes me doubt whether the speaker has any coherent reason for why they don’t like the given thing. Might as well say ‘yucky’. It’s the kind of word one uses when assuming everyone already agrees with you, and if they don’t, well then they’re probably problematic too. /rant
I love this call. It’s such a thought terminating cliche at this point.
On the Slop part – I wonder if the people that go around making inaccurate accusations about things being AI know how absolutely ridiculous it makes them sound. It’s at the point where it’s so absurd that I have to wonder if it’s part of some kind of triple reverse sabotage effort to discredit the people who actually do take great offense to any kind of use of generative AI.
I’m at the point where I downvote every comment that’s nothing more than, “This is slop.” or “Is this AI slop?”
I’m reading that as, “Look how smart I am! Also, I’m part of your tribe so you should like me!”
- Inked = signed (a deal)
- Ramped up = increased
“Let’s go”
