Words that have been ruined by the internet?

[nobodyworthwhile]

Basically, thanks to the internet, what's a word you have trouble taking seriously?

Maybe this topic will be therapy for some. Or just good for a laugh.

..... I'll start with the obvious one, "Pride." These days you never hear about any type of pride other than the rainbow-colored kind. (On that note originally I was gonna include symbols in this topic and the rainbow is one that is totes corrupted).

..... MtG, meaning Magic the Gathering, because I sometimes accidentally misread it as MGTOW.

..... Whenever I'm reading an old adventure novel and they talk about a Witch Doctor's fetish....

Anyway, yours?

 

[AnusSquirt69]

Astroturf. Apparently, any time a group of people like something and talk about it its now a psy-op or some shit lol

 

[BurnerAccount333]

• Toxic.
  • Literally cannot hear this word without instantly thinking: "Oh jesus fuck, here we go again."
• Map.
• Inflation.
• Mommy.
• Goon.
  • Do I really need to say?
• Pussy.
• Transition.
• Scathach.
  • You already know.

 

[Slaughter]

Problematic

"Speak your truth/my truth"

Gaslighting

Disassociative Identity Disorder...not a word but the whole alters thing is pure retard cope

Kin

Victim

Trauma

CBT is cognitive behavioral therapy, not cock and ball torture.

....there's a theme here, it's all coming together.

 

[The Gays From LA]

Definitely BBC, which apparently no longer stands for "British Broadcasting Corporation".

 

[nobodyworthwhile]

• Toxic.
  • Literally cannot hear this word without instantly thinking: "Oh jesus fuck, here we go again."
• Map.
• Inflation.
• Mommy.
• Goon.
  • Do I really need to say?
• Pussy.
• Transition.
• Scathach.
  • You already know.

I've legit never heard the word "Scathach." In ANY context.

"Transition" is funny because I see it (and use it) in contexts other than trans people, only to remember "oh right, that means something else now."

 

[BurnerAccount333]

I've legit never heard the word "Scathach." In ANY context.

Scáthach - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I play a lot games, some table talk, set in celtic settings. Scathach is a figure in said mythology.
And because she's an old mythological figure you'll see her name in games and fiction every so often.

 

[The Gays From LA]

Here's another word I remembered today: I really fucking hate the term "fedposting". "Fedposting" is the far-right version of far-leftists assuming everything is "COINTELPRO". It's the same shit. Like, how the fuck do you know it's a fed? Unless you can conclusively prove it's an agent provocateur, it's better to assume that people are just being raging assholes on the internet. You can either time them out with a specific cooling down period, or to just ban them if they keep doing it.

I also suspect there's a kind of narcissism behind the idea of "fedposting", the idea that someone is high-profile or considered dangerous enough to warrant the attention of the feds to the point of actual infiltration. I suspect that prospect is secretly very alluring to a certain kind of "activist narcissist" with a prosecution complex.

Even if a site was swarming with infiltrators, that shouldn't matter to anyone who's just there to laugh at cows. By all means let them infiltrate and waste their fucking time and the tax payers' dollars.

 

[Freya]

OCD
Mofos think because they see an upsetting image online they have a medically diagnosed disease that controls their life.
+1 for gaslighting too

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Among Us and Sus/Suspicious

 

[youthful_ shannel]

Definitely BBC, which apparently no longer stands for "British Broadcasting Corporation".

So when I hear BRITISH people say BBC I hear "British Broadcasting Corporations", when Americans say it I hear Big Black Cocks...

 

[Crimson Fucker]

The word cunny was definitely ruined. Mommy and daddy too. Also kitten and furry.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Tranny as well.
Back in the day it was short for "transmission" as in a car's transmission.

Back then if you said "I've fucked a tranny." one would assume you fucked a car's transmission after doing god knows what. Nowadays...you'd end up with Jordan Peterson throwing an autistic tantrum at you as part of his crackhead (akshualy benzohead) rampage.

And Escort.
It basically referred to the Ford Escort.

If you said "I just fucked a 15 year old escort." it would be assumed that you fucked a 15 year old Ford Escort after a bad episode of rally driver LARP-ing. Nowadays...you'd be asked by Chris Hansen to take a sit, to say the least. And EDP would become your friend.