I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.
Karen.
If you tell me someone in your life is a “Karen”, then I just assume you are a asshole who didn’t like being told to stop.
The joke has been overused and beaten to death back in 2020 imo, but there are absolutely obnoxiously entitled and loud complainers out there. This is just a shorthand for it.
I’m progressive, so I’ve always just called them cunts (in the non American gender neutral way), but what do you propose people call loud, obnoxious entitled complainers in your life?
loud, obnoxious entitled complainers
loud, obnoxious entitled complainers
You Had it right there. Just use that.
yes: it’s wordy. But it is on topic. And it will never fall out of meaning or relevance. Because it’s practically a dictionary description.This is what communication is. It relays your actual meaning with clarity.
loud, obnoxious entitled complainers can’t wriggle of it with side arguments and assumptions about your narrative of the situation . They don’t take offence to it for the reason you think they are taking offence to it. They are taking offence to the blatant sexism you think you just got away with. And you’re making them look right when they point it out. So using ‘Karen’ as an insult is doing more damage to you than anyone you think you’re describing. Same could also be said about ‘cunt’ too. It just sounds like you’re trying to be an edgy 12 yr old gamer who just discovered the ‘n’ word and have become obsessed about it for no other reason than to push buttons. You can come up with all the Aussie backstory you want about it but then it turns into a story about you struggling to not look bad. It’s no longer about the loud, obnoxious entitled complainers. If anything, shorthand is false economy when you have to spend 40 more words to explain yourself on what you could have done with just 4.
Asshole? Jerks? Something other than an existing person’s name? I know two Karens, and they’re some of the nicest sweetest people I know.
nothing, free for all
Oh and a big one I rather spun into another comment.
This one makes me cringe so hard - when YouTubers ask to “leave a comment down below”, or even “in a comment section down below” or refer to “description down below”.
Good grief, does this “Down Below” fellow pay everyone for advertising? Can you just fucking stop? I know there’s a comment section, I know where it is, down and below is redundant, and in fact, don’t tell me what to do, I’ll comment if I feel like it, thank you very much. Also how about some originality? At least some keep trying to come up with new synonyms to tell me to “smash” the like button, but the comments, same shit everyone.
Gawd I hope YT starts penalising this at some point.
The only reason they do it is because their analytics tell them it works. Same with the subscribed vs not subscribed graph that so many of them flash on screen nowadays. Granted the ones I watch at least get creative with the commentary surrounding that one.
Rental property owners, especially corporate apartment building owners, referring to their property as units. It completely dissociates it from the notion that those are people living in there.
People on the internet give me shit for the “woke” word, even though its meaning has really been lost right now into the bs american culture wars, while it was originally used in a positive mater it kinda has turned the other way around to describe a piece of media that has been compromised due to forced inclussion of a side message or hint of it to appear inclusive, and it feels manipulative and corporate aproved just for the sake of cheking demografic boxes for either trying to apeal to more demographics in a nearsighted way or just so that they get more money from weirdo investors like black rock or some other clowns. I like using it due to it describing very well what i just wrote in a single word, not because i dont agree with inclussion (i do), but most of the time its made in a corporate nearsighted way that ends up doing more damage than good.
Spot on, depending on context it takes on slightly different meanings. I feel like its use to call out corporate pandering in order to paint themselves in a good/progressive way to the rest of the public eye, solely because they realized it would artificially boost their bottom line, is justified
The vast majority of people frothing about woke can’t even begin to define it. I call them sleeple.
“Slut”. Especially when used in porn. I just find it so cringey how it’s used to describe any woman with an active sexual appetite. “Whore” is another one.
Porn denigrates women? Shocking!
Some porn does. Some doesn’t.
When people describe something as a “vibe.” I can’t really put my finger on why. It just annoys me. Maybe it’s the vagueness or that people who say it seem desperate to sound cool.
Mood.
“Woke”
It’s been misused by so many people so many times that it’s lost all meaning
I think it’s started to mean “person I think is left-leaning and whom I don’t like”, same with “wokie”
I don’t like the casual use of the word “hate”
Maybe it’s just me but hate is quite an extreme emotion. It basically means you want something killed/destroyed. I know people don’t often really hate the thing they claim to hate but I’m far enough on the spectrum to not take words literally.
I think it’s problematic when used in political contexts. Complex societal problems, like racism etc., are reduced to a feeling, thereby ignoring all the wider implications, histories and contexts while also reducing it to a mere individual problem.
I know. I hate it so much I just want to see it burn!!
Yummy. It inflicts 20 points of psychic damage every time I hear it used unironically whithin earshot. Other than that, no particular reason.
It makes me laugh to think of the fake bad language that was invented for the comedy ‘Father Ted’, feck this and feck that
That’s just Irish slang though
You’d be surprised at the number of Irish people that say feck. Not even sure FT invented it at this point.
‘Ass’ is a huge turnoff word for me. It could be one of the nicest part of the human body but also one of the worst, and is usually used to describe an awful smell and/or taste. Or a bad personality type. Even a mood. There aren’t enough useful euphemisms in English to call a nice butt
Praise the derriere!
I hear the word “freak” in movies and it rubs me the wrong way. Not because it’s bad but it’s because people don’t call each other that IRL. It’s only an insult in movies. It’s weird.
Might just be where you’re from. People definitely use freak as an insult irl.
I still hear it, just not as commonly these days. Personally I decided to enjoy hearing it applied to myself; that means I’m on the right path.
You want to be a freak?
Much more interesting than being “normal”, if I had to choose
We said it a lot in the 90s
I think it’s very interesting to go back and look at those movies. Many words were used that are not allowed today. :)
Even Seinfeld has jokes that would upset some people today.
Yeah, I mean, I kinda feel like it’s fair now to admit that Seinfeld kinda sucked the whole time.
Early 00’s definitely used that term a lot, too. It sounds cringy now because it’s outdated.
Ride share. It’s supposed to mean “Hey, I’m going this way and if you are too, you can ride with me.” It is currently used to mean ride hailing. You hail or call the ride with the apps and then pay for the ride. The driver and app developer isn’t sharing anything.
The only thing being shared is the expense on the drivers car.
Referring to artists as ‘creatives’.
It implies to me that some have the capacity to be creative and some don’t, which is simply ridiculous. It’s also pretentious as fuck.
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Don’t stop using anything just because of this thread, lol. Except insults probably. Most of the general stuff here like “creative” or “gamer” or “content creator” are things very specific people have some gripe with that’s not at all how most people see those things.
It all depends on how you mean it. If you use words descriptively, most of all of them are fine to use. Only if you have derogatory or whatever intent behind it may become a problem.
I just find it annoying, not offensive. I never hold it against anyone using it and I can see why it gets used. I personally think using creators instead of creatives just comes across way less pretentious.
I don’t mind creatives because i don’t know what else to call a group of people who do different creative things.
I think using “creators” is fine because it implies someone using their creative abilities instead of people that have creative abilities, which is everyone, whether they think they do or not.
Ok. That sounds good.
