On that vein, companies calling their employees by their name suffixed with -er (or similar). Anything to fit in culturally or whatever the hell they want.
It always comes across as insincere and disingenuous.
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2025
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Companies 'speaking' is always disingenuous.
"israel"
Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with 'grifter' at this point as most 'influencers' are trying to run a grift of some kind.
I would prefer buyer or customer. Not Consumer.
If I could just quickly split this hair: there is a semantic difference. The buyer or customer paid money. The consumer needn't have. If I buy my kid a Switch 2 I'm the buyer and my kid is the consumer.
I don't disagree with your take that it gets overused though.
Virtue signaling, the question.
- "Normies" as I associate people who use that word a lot to be pretentious.
- "Lolcow" which has history of Kiwi Farm user using that word to describe someone and cyberbully as well as dox them.
- "Chav" as I feel classist to still use that term but as someone that's both working-class and lives in a rough area in UK, it hard to not describe some people as that term as christ.. they are aggressive, homophobic and transphobic.
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Moist
The word βmoistβ comes up really frequently in lists of peopleβs most hated words. Can you explain why? To me it seems like just any random word.
It just has a sweaty sticky swamp water feel to it..like being on an all day float trip..