I'll start.
I know there's nothing inherently wrong with "based" as a slang word and it's said plenty of times on Hexbear about good things, but when I see it in the online wild, it is 95% of the time about something bigoted or hateful.
:frothingfash: MECCA SHOULD BE GLASSED
:le-pol-face: BASED
:stupidpol: BASED
:jordan-eboy-peterson: BASED
:grillman: BASED
As weird as it may sound, people that say "vitriol" a lot in online discussions tend to be vitriolic themselves. It's commonly used among civility obsessed :LIB: s when they want to superficially follow the rules while baiting dissenters into getting selectively enforced bans.
:maybe-later-kiddo: "Um, what you just said about entrepreneurial philanthropists was so full of vitriol that I will not dignify it with a proper response. sigh I wish more of you ungrateful kiddos would stop LARPing as tankie fascists and would crack open an Econ 101 book instead. Maybe you would have less vitriol then. Vitriol much?"
:fedposting: "You have been banned for posting on /r/bootlicking. You may contact the moderators if you believe this was in error. No vitriol will be tolerated."
The last one is "human." Yeah I know, weird. But its most common online usage in my experience isn't far off from the usage (and users) of "feeemale" when referring to women (or girls). Also it tends to said a lot by creepy techbro types, both in advertising ironically dehumanizing and alienating tech products and when fanboys go to bat for the same.
:capitalist-woke: "Remember the human!" as a slogan, for example, instead of maybe "don't be an asshole."
Or my least favorite kind of usage:
:so-true: ":melon-musk: is just a better human that wants us all to be better humans! Humans must become an interplanetary species!"
Gaslighting. It has truly transcended it's original meaning to just mean "You're abusive for disagreeing with me"
Gatekeeping. Actually if I like something, it's good, and if you disagree you're gatekeeping.
Gatekeeping. Actually if I like something, it’s good, and if you disagree you’re gatekeeping.
Gatekeeping gets an unfair rap in my opinion. Like yes: I think a lot of us would agree that a bunch of neckbeards arguing vehemently about whether or not fans of the sequel trilogy are real star wars fans are complete wastes of human beings but "Nazi Punks fuck off" is also gatekeeping and is actually pretty fucking cool.
Edit: with Gaslighting people have basically just completely forgotten that the person doing the gaslighting has to actually be aware that they're lying. Two or more people having divergent memories or views on an experience they both share doesn't automatically mean one person is gaslighting.
Gaslighting. It has truly transcended it’s original meaning to just mean “You’re abusive for disagreeing with me”
I mainly find gaslighting annoying when it's used to refer to just lying.
I’ve been trying to limit it to people telling me to “relax” just because I’m disagreeing with them
Influencer is such an antisocial, malignantly narcissistic word. Pure :stalin-gun-1: :debord-tired:
It’s a distillation of the value those people provide to capital. Their influence is a conduit to multiply attention and therefore value
It's a mostly made up word that didn't have any use until malignant narcissists starting getting paid to be malignant narcissists on the internet. I wouldn't consider it benign or harmless since no one that I know of said "influencer" until we had Onision and other monsters.
Content is the bane of my existence, like i sometimes just don't feel like drawing because i feel like if i draw something i should make something good so i can POST CONTENT ONLINE, you know, just hate how it feels like everything is in name of making a brand
this shit is so ingrained in younger people (particularly in LA). Any time I'm working with a group of people under 25 damn near everything that happens thats mildly interesting someone in the group will shout "CONTENT! thats content!"
my mom is like 50+ and sometimes she says stuff about content and she DOESN'T EVEN POST it just is so present in online media that you get it big bummer
The word "content" really lays bare just how much disdain the capitalists have for art. They literally see it as just the thing contained between ads
Content is a psy-op by media companies that want to convince us that art needs containers.
Content
https://twitter.com/ThatLittleDemon/status/1483193806015057922/photo/1
I find "problematic" really grating, I think because it's usually civility libs saying it and they'll never elaborate beyond "problematic". Like if something's racist or homophobic or otherwise bigoted just say it's that, don't try to put the Star Wars prequels and Tina Fey and Stalin in one bucket and make me understand what point you're trying to get at.
It only has meaning if the person you're talking to is already on the same page as you so what's the point?
This one went over my head for the longest time. There’s always an intended implication that, not only is the thing problematic, but the person responsible is usually bad and the audience should already understand why
For sure — I think part of it is that the person who says it can't be bothered to unpack what exactly is bad about it, and "x is problematic" doesn't lead to any further discussion of the problems with it.
it's such a clumsy appropriation of a critical theory buzzword lmao.
also sometimes the point is absolutely to cause problems.
"problematic" has the same vibes as "disenfranchised" or "institutionalized racism"
it's just libspeak that makes things sound less offensive than they really are
"Cope". I'm guilty of using it sometimes and others here use it :cope: we have it as an emoji, but it comes from incel slang, used to mock people who are ugly but have made peace with it. Generally it was used to mock anyone who's come to terms with something bad in their life. I don't think I'll ever really be happy with seeing it like redeemed by the left like based has been. I hate based too.
I can relate. I even find the concept of "copium" hilarious, especially as an imaginary gas pumped through a respirator. Yet, when I see "cope" in the wild it's almost always a lazy thought terminating cliche about pretty much anything. It's the new "u mad."
:doomer: "The obsession of "getting back to normal" in the midst of a worsening pandemic is hurting and killing a lot of people and driving many 'essential workers' into quitting their jobs."
:maybe-later-kiddo: "Um, sweetie, maybe if you had a life and some actual friends you would understand why that wine won't taste itself. Cope much?" multiple donut emojiis
:grillman: cope endless string of laughing crying emojiis
:stupidpol: cope string of cryptofascist frogs
Coping is good actually and healthy coping is a sign of a mentally well person. It's literally apart of natural human shit when we're confronted with loss or tragedy and how our brains work around it. The USA is literally a prime example of unhealthy coping skills in the face of a pandemic, instead of protecting people and letting those who've lost loved ones grieve, we've gaslight an entire population and told them to get back to work. It's no fucking wonder more than half this country is addicted to opioids.
The implications of the incel usage of "cope" are disturbing. If coping is bad, what is supposed to be the "based" response to whatever upsets them? Shooting up their schools?
As sick as it is, yeah, that's what they want you to do. Black pilled incels think the healthy response to this society is to go lone wolf and do spree shootings, they egg each other on hoping someone snaps. It's sick as fuck and nuclear waste dump levels of toxic. Instead of doing the right thing and coming to the correct conclusion about western beauty standards and alienation under neoliberal capitalism and building solidarity, they just fight each other and have a bleak outlook on life and humanity, where the end result is snapping.
I don't think I've personally seen "cope" used in contexts like these, but I'm sure fascists are warping language like they usually do and I just don't keep up with them. When I see it people usually seem to mean "you are in denial about problem X and are making up fantasies to avoid confronting it", not "you are aware of problem X and don't want to think about it literally 24/7 so you do something to cheer yourself up instead". I would say antivaxxers are definitely coping, as are libs who say that covid is over now.
Based was always left.
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This is actually a really good point and I've noticed myself using it in my head in a way that makes it harder to, well, cope. I gotta strike the slang meaning from my vocabulary, I think.
I watched"epic" go from a word typically reserved for Homeric works and Gilgamesh to "double plus good" back in the aughts.
“Partner” used as a verb. “Help,” “collaborate,” “Share” would all be perfectly cromulent words. Edit: most of the time it just means “advertise”
People go to one therapy session and suddenly everything and everyone is toxic (except themselves)
Drip sounds gross to me and definitely doesn't bring to mind someone with good style. "That person has drip" makes it sound like they're sweaty or they peed their pants or something lol
I don't even know what drip means in modern slang. This is actually the first time I heard that the word has such usage. :chomsky-yes-honey:
It's basically the new way to say swag. I think it's only been around for like a year so don't feel bad lol
I know language moves on but I'll just politely decline to say something has drip. :punished-bernie:
Me too lol. Hopefully, it's replaced with a better word soon.
Hell I'll make up a better one now
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Yo that guy has some serious dangle
Just makes me think about Reno 911
That or people who are really into feet
think it came initially from jewelry since there's a thing about saying jewelry is "ice" or "water" and that just grew to include outfits as a whole, but tbh i dont really know, i just work with rappers all day every day. At this point i just let the new slang words come and go as they please like transitory migrating birds.
Singular “diverse”. The word “diverse” is a description of a group of things. If you call a single thing or person “diverse”, it sounds condescending as hell. I’ve seen this more in radlib pseudoacademic circles online
yeah, smh @ people other than me on this site calling each other comrade, I am the one true leftist.
fr though I don't think that one's a problem — if feckless libs and succdems want to launder historically communist terms to make them more main-stream palatable, that's fine with me. Makes it easier to talk to them and move them left, and I don't think they'll be able to change the meaning of "comrade" in any meaningful way the same way that they might water down or misuse terms like "imperialism" or whatever
Lol yeah fair enough. In my experience, "liking communist aesthetics" is a pretty good gateway to "liking communism" so personally I find it easy to engage with that type of person, but finding that exhausting is super fair.
"Iconic" is often associated with the sorts of pandering marketing of old IPs that is the bread and butter of RedLetterMedia heckling.
The word is useful as a warning, if nothing else.
