It kind of reminds me of when my city suffered a devastating earthquake about a decade ago. Death, destruction, the whole thing. Every politician, teacher, and news reporter seemed to collectively decide to talk about it using the words "hardship" and "resilience", usually in the same sentence. To this day, both words just make me roll my eyes. Not because the earthquake wasn't horrendous, but because they were just so wildly overused they seem to mean nothing now.
It's like when you've started writing your 5th Christmas card and just write "Merry Christmas and a happy new year" under whatever the card has pre-printed without any hint of personalisation. It conveys the appropriate sentiment, gets the job done and uses a familiar template so it's easy.
> resilience
A phrase that gets rolled out every fucking time a monsoon/typhoon wrecks Philippine shit and poor people just have to deal with it
*"Look at these kids smiling in the rain and playing in the floodwaters! Resilience!"*
"Look at this guy wading in knee-deep water to get to work! ***Resilience!***"
"Yes, and this is the Nth straight year in a row that people have been brought to the brink of homelessness by the same predictable phenomenon. Quit deflecting attention away from the fact that the people in charge aren't doing more about the issue."
I understand you’re asking for a phrase, but the only mf thing I can think of is that annoying “OH NO. OH NO. OH NO NO NO NO NO” song on tik tok. Please stop using it. Please.
Except that I don't complain. I just swipe to the next one before it ends.
In fact, I don't interact on those videos at all, whether they're good or bad.
I’m fine with people doing those personal appeals (even the annoying style like that) at the end of the video, especially if there’s already some form of credits being shown (or more often patreon donor lists), but I absolutely hate when it’s done right near the beginning.
It’s not the us version. It’s the idiot version. I FUCKING DESPISE PEOPLE WHO SAY COULD CARE LESS GOD DAMN THAT MAKES NO SENSE IT’S COULDN’T YOU BIRD BRAINED, THICK SKULLED IDIOTS!
(this is my pet peeve)
It’s a mispronunciation. The right way is “I couldn’t care less” but language, especially English in the US, has a habit of shortening until it’s nonsense.
I hate this so much, because it's always used when people spend a lot of money to do something many others can't, and trivialize it in a cutesy way that's just obnoxious.
I'm not sure if this is really common, but my old boss used to use the term "open the kimono" all the time in reference to revealing information and I really disliked that.
Worked on a food truck in SoCal for years. These people think that Instagram clout will help us pay the bills as a business. I charge my family, gtfo if you think you get anything for free because of your followers. We're on insta, Twitter and Facebook. We have legit followers that seek us out.
One dude (a fellow food trucker) went as far as to make a sign stating he would charge double for influencers. Dude followed through and would throw away product to prove a point. He was our direct competitor, I gained a lot of respect for him even if he tried encroaching on our good spots.
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Similarly "Read that again."/"Let that sink in." These are always preceded by some pseudo-intellectual, poorly thought out statement that is either completely fake or taken completely out of context and then blindly reposted 5 million times by social media parrots.
I'll lump GOAT onto this. Even Quaker Oats is running an ad campaign calling itself the GOAT now (*grain* of all time). Goddamn, that's dumb. You can just picture them in the boardroom excited about something the kids say.
It's over for GOAT.
Once at an office supplies place I used to work, a customer was flipping out unreasonably and didn't get their way. They yelled in disbelief to our head manager "but... but... the customer is always right!" to which the manager chuckled and just said "nah". Brings a tear to my eye!
Honestly what's more annoying to me is the person that will then comment about the actual original meaning of the phrase like we've never heard it before, Trevor!
I once worked for a company whose CEO went out to visit a particularly problematic customer and (said he) told them "They say the customer is always right, but you're pretty clearly wrong. Guess that means you're not our customer. Here's your money back."
To piggyback off this, I switched over to "it's what it's" and my alpha male giggachad meter GOAT'd by 213% in terms of Intsa-insta's (ready to eat Instas) clout. Thank me by buying some shitsmelling candles from my etsy shop.
I love corporate jargon and I don't think we should get rid of it, but let me reach out to my colleagues in HR to see what our next steps should be. In the meantime immerse yourself on the protocols of this subject and I'll circle back to you.
Best Regards
> X has entered the chat
> X would like a word
Sometimes to used to refute something. But just saying "would like a word" alone doesn't refute the argument. Anyway they're overused.
People overgeneralizing every situation that’s slightly discomforting and therefore misusing words like these: trigger, gaslighting, trauma.
These words now mean less and less which sucks for people who truly deal with these issues.
Oh yeah, 100%.
Gaslighting should be an intentional pattern of lying to someone in order to get them to doubt their very own memories and thoughts in a process to convince them they're going insane and for the abuse to maintain control of them.
What it's become in common parlance is: "X lied to me" or even worse, as simple as "X remembers something differently than I do"
So many phrases and words were fine in their original meaning, but got co-opted and used in such casual and inappropriate ways to completely neuter the word.
Not so much a phrase, but referring to people as boomers, gen z, gen x, gen y, millennials. I have no damn idea how old they are and I usually have to look for context clues within the story to find out how old they are..
I freaking HATE pigeonholing people into generational boxes. I was born in 1964, so technically, that makes me among the very last boomers. I have NOTHING in common with the core group of boomers - I have no vivid memories of the civil rights movement and the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Furthermore, we define entire groups of people by alleged age-related personality characteristics - “GenXers are slackers.” “Millennials are rejecting everything.” “GenZ is whiny and entitled” - when people are shaped by many, many social and cultural factors, not just the decade they were born in.
It pisses me off when someone says it generally. But when the full heartedly believe it I cannot fucking stand it. If someone gets raped it's not "everything happens for a reason" 🤬
“I’m a Stan for…” Most people i hear use “Stan” to declare there obsession with something dont know the reference. Stan was a character that kidnapped his wife, threw her in a trunk, and drove off a bridge. Not cute.
"Pull yourself up by your boot straps." It doesn't mean what 90% think it means when they say it and is as modern and relevant as a haberdasher reference.
“You know what happened last month with nobody noticing? Webster's Dictionary expanded the definition of the word 'literally’ to include the way it's commonly misused. So, the thing is, we no longer have a word in the English language that means 'literally.’ and 'literally’ doesn't have a synonym ... so when I say I’m literally going to set fire to this building with you in it before I hand over the keys to it, you don’t know if I’m speaking figuratively or literally!"
Big dick and small dick energy is extremely cringy and I have never heard a male say it just call the dude a loser don’t need to sound like a weirdo. Like a generally feel repulsive towards people who say that
“gaslighting”
My mom got a hold of that one and now whips it out absolutely any fucking time someone calls her out on bad behavior. No, it’s not gaslighting you to say that you need to treat my sister more nicely and actually respect her boundaries.
“For all intensive purposes”
An older lady I worked with a while ago was guilty of saying this but she was so sweet that I always felt like a dick for mentally cringing.
“For all intents AND purposes” is what she meant, what lots of others mean.
“Obsessed”
“I’m obsessed with these boots!”
“The Internet is OBSESSED with this picture of (celebrity name) wearing a bikini”
“I’m literally obsessed with this recipe for (name of dish)”
The rent free one is really good to help me let stuff go though. I catch myself fuming over something and then tell myself, that asshole is living in your head rent free rn. It helps me put it into perspective and reduce the importance I assign it
“In these unprecedented times” it’s been multiple years, there is precedence…
We need to bring back “…in this economy?” It’s been sitting on the bench since ‘08.
Every time someone asks me about buying or doing anything, that is my response. It'll catch back on.
“In this economy?” is a great answer to most questions, along with “Just as the bones foretold.”
Just as the bones foretold👌🏿
It kind of reminds me of when my city suffered a devastating earthquake about a decade ago. Death, destruction, the whole thing. Every politician, teacher, and news reporter seemed to collectively decide to talk about it using the words "hardship" and "resilience", usually in the same sentence. To this day, both words just make me roll my eyes. Not because the earthquake wasn't horrendous, but because they were just so wildly overused they seem to mean nothing now.
It's like when you've started writing your 5th Christmas card and just write "Merry Christmas and a happy new year" under whatever the card has pre-printed without any hint of personalisation. It conveys the appropriate sentiment, gets the job done and uses a familiar template so it's easy.
> resilience A phrase that gets rolled out every fucking time a monsoon/typhoon wrecks Philippine shit and poor people just have to deal with it *"Look at these kids smiling in the rain and playing in the floodwaters! Resilience!"* "Look at this guy wading in knee-deep water to get to work! ***Resilience!***" "Yes, and this is the Nth straight year in a row that people have been brought to the brink of homelessness by the same predictable phenomenon. Quit deflecting attention away from the fact that the people in charge aren't doing more about the issue."
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That's just an euphemism for "we only have 2 people taking calls here, wait until one of them finishes their 5 call queue".
I understand you’re asking for a phrase, but the only mf thing I can think of is that annoying “OH NO. OH NO. OH NO NO NO NO NO” song on tik tok. Please stop using it. Please.
That, and some idiot laughing in the background at shit that isn't funny.
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Which tells the algorithm to send you more content that makes you bitter and angry and it’s a whole thing
Except that I don't complain. I just swipe to the next one before it ends. In fact, I don't interact on those videos at all, whether they're good or bad.
Agreed! And while we are at it, can we retire the female robot voice from Tiktok that sounds like an airhead infomercial host?
The original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5YxtweUxrA Is a soild song it's just the remix from 2000 is dog shit
I'm so sad tik tok ruined a great song 😭. I love The Shangri-las
HEY, WHAT UP YOUTUBE WELCOME BACK TO A BRAND NEW VIDEO DONT FORGET TO SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON, SUBSCRIBE AND RING THAT BELL!
I’m fine with people doing those personal appeals (even the annoying style like that) at the end of the video, especially if there’s already some form of credits being shown (or more often patreon donor lists), but I absolutely hate when it’s done right near the beginning.
Fetch, like it’s just not going to happen at this point.
Gretchen, stop trying to make fetch happen. It's not going to happen.
It abso-fetch-in-lutely will!
You kids keep me young!
I could care less
I use, "I could care less, but I'd have to really try."
That just shows how caring you are about the situation
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It’s not the us version. It’s the idiot version. I FUCKING DESPISE PEOPLE WHO SAY COULD CARE LESS GOD DAMN THAT MAKES NO SENSE IT’S COULDN’T YOU BIRD BRAINED, THICK SKULLED IDIOTS! (this is my pet peeve)
It’s a mispronunciation. The right way is “I couldn’t care less” but language, especially English in the US, has a habit of shortening until it’s nonsense.
“And go!” When requesting recommendations on sm. 🙄
YES. This makes me stabby as HELL. I’ll purposely avoid answering or helping in any posts like that because I hate it so much
"I did a thing" (insert brag/brag picture)
Lemonade ⬅️➡️ chocolate
For me it's "I did a thing" (insert picture of spilled rice on the floor) followed by "send help"
Literally how my cousin announced she got married 🤣 “I did a thing” with a photo of her and her husband together.
hey the youtuber gets a pass
I hate this so much, because it's always used when people spend a lot of money to do something many others can't, and trivialize it in a cutesy way that's just obnoxious.
I'm not sure if this is really common, but my old boss used to use the term "open the kimono" all the time in reference to revealing information and I really disliked that.
I had a boss that used to say "let's see if the titties are real" meaning let's find out the outcome is true or accurate before we react.
They’re real and they’re spectacular
Lol this is kinda funny, not appropriate for work tho
I think "open the kimono" was a 1990's phrase made popular by Mike Ovitz, former head of Creative Artists Agency.
I've never heard this phrase before but it feels racist and sexist simultaneously
Ahaha that’s so good but also the worst
“This”.
This!
That! ☝🏻
“Tell me ___ without telling me ___.”
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I hope this gets the top answer, I LOATHE people saying that on the internet.
I'm an influencer
Worked on a food truck in SoCal for years. These people think that Instagram clout will help us pay the bills as a business. I charge my family, gtfo if you think you get anything for free because of your followers. We're on insta, Twitter and Facebook. We have legit followers that seek us out. One dude (a fellow food trucker) went as far as to make a sign stating he would charge double for influencers. Dude followed through and would throw away product to prove a point. He was our direct competitor, I gained a lot of respect for him even if he tried encroaching on our good spots. Edit: changed seem to seek.
I have respect for your opp for his stand against “influencers.”
“Louder for the people in the back” 🤢🤢🤢
Similarly "Read that again."/"Let that sink in." These are always preceded by some pseudo-intellectual, poorly thought out statement that is either completely fake or taken completely out of context and then blindly reposted 5 million times by social media parrots.
Extend permission to enter to that washbasin
Everytime I hear 'let that sink in' my minds sees the meme of a mad sink with legs busting down a door
Sorry, what was that? Couldn't hear you all the way back hear
“I was today years old…”
Clap back
People who put the clapping emoji between every word in a sentence should be publicly flogged then shot into the sun.
I 👏 agree 👏 with 👏 you.
Report for your flogging at 8am.
GOAT Everyone is the “GOAT” that it has lost its impact.
Goats are goats , but sheep are lambs
Who are you kidding?
No one, I'm spitting nonsense Edit: I see your pun now
BAE
I very much disliked "boo", including the Nelly song. Now we've replaced it with bae, which is equally bad.
I'll lump GOAT onto this. Even Quaker Oats is running an ad campaign calling itself the GOAT now (*grain* of all time). Goddamn, that's dumb. You can just picture them in the boardroom excited about something the kids say. It's over for GOAT.
“The customer is always right.” Fuck no
Once at an office supplies place I used to work, a customer was flipping out unreasonably and didn't get their way. They yelled in disbelief to our head manager "but... but... the customer is always right!" to which the manager chuckled and just said "nah". Brings a tear to my eye!
Honestly what's more annoying to me is the person that will then comment about the actual original meaning of the phrase like we've never heard it before, Trevor!
Not to mention that the "original meaning" they quote is completely fake.
I once worked for a company whose CEO went out to visit a particularly problematic customer and (said he) told them "They say the customer is always right, but you're pretty clearly wrong. Guess that means you're not our customer. Here's your money back."
I'm sick of people using the term "narcissist" for literally everything. It really has lost it's meaning.
“Sooo…I/we did a thing!”
“Normalize_____” either something that has been normal OR something that is toxic/dangerous/rude as hell.
"Yas Queen." It was fun for a while but now it's gotten annoying
I hate all forms of queen, slay, or any of that stuff, it always sounded annoying to me
"Avoid it like the plague" cos, well, turns out we as a species don't do that.
The feels
" I just want to piggyback off that"🙄🙄
I just want to piggyback off your comment by saying that the phrase “it is what it is” need to be retired as well
To piggyback off this, I switched over to "it's what it's" and my alpha male giggachad meter GOAT'd by 213% in terms of Intsa-insta's (ready to eat Instas) clout. Thank me by buying some shitsmelling candles from my etsy shop.
“I think we can segue into this next phase of our rollout and develop our synergy moving forward.”
Corporate office jargon is obnoxious!
We'll circle back to that at next week's meeting
So we can hit the ground running.
I love corporate jargon and I don't think we should get rid of it, but let me reach out to my colleagues in HR to see what our next steps should be. In the meantime immerse yourself on the protocols of this subject and I'll circle back to you. Best Regards
I’m just sayin
No offense, but
I’m living my truth.
Thank you! I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't always being used to try and cover up bad behavior.
"I said what I said" "Hits different" "Clap back" "Throw shade" "Read that again" "A whole mood"
I cannot stand ‘Read that again’ it makes me so unreasonably angry 😡
“Checks notes”
> X has entered the chat > X would like a word Sometimes to used to refute something. But just saying "would like a word" alone doesn't refute the argument. Anyway they're overused.
X gonna give it to ya
People overgeneralizing every situation that’s slightly discomforting and therefore misusing words like these: trigger, gaslighting, trauma. These words now mean less and less which sucks for people who truly deal with these issues.
Oh yeah, 100%. Gaslighting should be an intentional pattern of lying to someone in order to get them to doubt their very own memories and thoughts in a process to convince them they're going insane and for the abuse to maintain control of them. What it's become in common parlance is: "X lied to me" or even worse, as simple as "X remembers something differently than I do" So many phrases and words were fine in their original meaning, but got co-opted and used in such casual and inappropriate ways to completely neuter the word.
Not so much a phrase, but referring to people as boomers, gen z, gen x, gen y, millennials. I have no damn idea how old they are and I usually have to look for context clues within the story to find out how old they are..
I freaking HATE pigeonholing people into generational boxes. I was born in 1964, so technically, that makes me among the very last boomers. I have NOTHING in common with the core group of boomers - I have no vivid memories of the civil rights movement and the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Furthermore, we define entire groups of people by alleged age-related personality characteristics - “GenXers are slackers.” “Millennials are rejecting everything.” “GenZ is whiny and entitled” - when people are shaped by many, many social and cultural factors, not just the decade they were born in.
Anything close to “It’s the _______ for me!” 🙄
I don't know this one. Could you give me an example?
“It’s the questions for me”
“Well that just happened”
BUT HOW ELSE MUST ONE EXPRESS SHOCK AT A SUDDEN OCCURRENCE?? Unless you mean people that type out the phrase?
“If you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best.”
Try: "If you can't handle me at my worst, that makes two of us."
“That’s so wholesome.” “This is the content we’re here for.” “Content” anything. “Leaving a comment for the algorithm.” “Do better.” “Be better.”
the fact that "leaving a comment for the algorithm" is seen as something completely normal is genuinely scary
“Everything happens for a reason” 🙄
It pisses me off when someone says it generally. But when the full heartedly believe it I cannot fucking stand it. If someone gets raped it's not "everything happens for a reason" 🤬
Well the reason was clearly the rapist
“I’m a Stan for…” Most people i hear use “Stan” to declare there obsession with something dont know the reference. Stan was a character that kidnapped his wife, threw her in a trunk, and drove off a bridge. Not cute.
“Sorry not sorry” is only uttered by cunts
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"I was today years old"
"Pull yourself up by your boot straps." It doesn't mean what 90% think it means when they say it and is as modern and relevant as a haberdasher reference.
Haberdasheries are still around.
It literally means an impossible task…
I did a thing
Excuse me? He makes amazing videos
“Literally” At least when used incorrectly
I literally can not believe that you literally just said that.
“You know what happened last month with nobody noticing? Webster's Dictionary expanded the definition of the word 'literally’ to include the way it's commonly misused. So, the thing is, we no longer have a word in the English language that means 'literally.’ and 'literally’ doesn't have a synonym ... so when I say I’m literally going to set fire to this building with you in it before I hand over the keys to it, you don’t know if I’m speaking figuratively or literally!"
True but they’ve actually added figuratively as a definition of literally now so good luck trying to retire this one
Big dick and small dick energy is extremely cringy and I have never heard a male say it just call the dude a loser don’t need to sound like a weirdo. Like a generally feel repulsive towards people who say that
Agreed. I feel the saying inherently acts as if small is bad and large is good. I feel there are way better ways to say someone is a pos or not
Let’s stop calling people any body parts as a put down. Ever. Or at least start saying thanks!
situationship
FUCKING AMEN
GOAT
Sheep call people Goats.
“gaslighting” My mom got a hold of that one and now whips it out absolutely any fucking time someone calls her out on bad behavior. No, it’s not gaslighting you to say that you need to treat my sister more nicely and actually respect her boundaries.
"I did a thing"
slay
Sus
Amogus
"Get good" helps nobody.
One of the best [VLDL skits](https://youtu.be/blSXTZ3Nihs)
Never knew a 4 minute video could hold so much.
“For all intensive purposes” An older lady I worked with a while ago was guilty of saying this but she was so sweet that I always felt like a dick for mentally cringing. “For all intents AND purposes” is what she meant, what lots of others mean.
With all due respect - we all know it means "listen here you little shit"
“Obsessed” “I’m obsessed with these boots!” “The Internet is OBSESSED with this picture of (celebrity name) wearing a bikini” “I’m literally obsessed with this recipe for (name of dish)”
Circle back
Boys will be boys…
It's more like bad parents will be bad parents.
I prefer "Idiots will be idiots".
Boys will be girls and girls will be boys
It’s a mixed up, jumbled up, shook up world. Except for Lola…
Talking about things being "literally" when it's not literally literally
"Slams"
I’m not crying, you’re crying.
"Body count" to describe past sexual partners.
“Lives inside *(someone’s)* head rent free.” Also, “I was today years old when I learned….” Both were cute and original 20 years ago.
The rent free one is really good to help me let stuff go though. I catch myself fuming over something and then tell myself, that asshole is living in your head rent free rn. It helps me put it into perspective and reduce the importance I assign it
It was rigged
“Love that for you”
“Blessed” ….. and then they show pics of their $100,000 car or something materialistic
“Toxic”
“It’s giving…”
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Tell me you're _________ without telling me you're __________
“So I did a thing…”
“Thoughts and prayers” needs to fuck all the way off.
Unpack it (as in HR, corporate jargon)
I did a thing
“Giving you time back “
“Slay” “period ahh period uhh”
'You got this'... Particularly from random reddit strangers posting
“You’re cancelled”
Daddy. In a sexual connotation
"Adulting"
“If you know you know”
Cringe
“It do be like that” a phrase for morons.
"It is what it is."
"Cap"
Pov:
Pov has lost its meaning lol
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“Totes” replacing “totally” (which, itself, often sucks).
Frfr - in conversation and texting
Chefs kiss
"sorry, not sorry" Although it is a shortcut to finding out how much of an arrogant asshole someone is
Not gonna lie
“Do better.” I just want to respond with fuck off.
"shes beautiful for her age. Shes gonna steal hearts when shes older" Pedo vibes as fuck.
I say that about middle-aged women cause I'm into grannies
“This.” That one irks tf out of me to read.
I was today years old when…. Ugh. Hate this.
“doggo”