• BoozillaEnglish
      7·
      4 days ago

      Everything has to be shorter, because gnat-like attention spans.

      • anomnomEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        We used to use spent when we were too lazy to say washed up. Or fucked.

        But you can’t use 4 letter words or your social media will get de-emphasized and your referral traffic will be washed fucked.

      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 days ago

        Ah yes I got this. Bro over here in the kitchen checks notes cooking! Wait no, he’s cooked? Cooked what? And who’s going to do the dishes? People have no respect these days, back when I was a kid you wouldn…

        • chaogomu@lemmy.world
          15·
          4 days ago

          Based actually comes from freebased. Which is what you do to cocaine to make it crack.

          Based used to mean something cringe worthy until the rapper Lil B started using it in a positive context.

          Now it’s sort of the opposite of cringe.

          • kadup@lemmy.world
            7·
            4 days ago

            Here’s a fun little curiosity that profoundly annoys me: here in Brazil “cringe” accidentally got the wrong meaning. It was being heavily used online, so a famous TV news program decided to “explain what it means” to the older generation and accidentally explained it as “cringe means everything older generations are or do” so in other words, a lot of brazilians that aren’t used to internet slang believe “cringe” means “somebody over 30” rather than actual cringe.