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Title: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 23, 2016, 10:54:09 AM
2016: Threat or Menace?
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Momo on December 23, 2016, 10:59:37 AM
Problematic is like from 2012 isnt it? Still this anyway.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Atramental on December 23, 2016, 11:01:08 AM
Cummies  :doge
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: ToxicAdam on December 23, 2016, 11:38:39 AM
Fam



Just getting ahead of the curve.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Ichirou on December 23, 2016, 11:46:16 AM
2016 is the worst word, and also number.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Himu on December 23, 2016, 11:51:20 AM
bae is years and years old
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Samson Manhug on December 23, 2016, 11:53:18 AM
bae is years and years old

This poll, like everything, is biased for straight, cisgendered, white people.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Himu on December 23, 2016, 11:56:43 AM
bae is years and years old

This poll, like everything, is biased for straight, cisgendered, white people.

woah woah hold your horses, biz.

fam is like two decades old or some shit too
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 23, 2016, 11:59:08 AM
bae is years and years old

This poll, like everything, is biased for straight, cisgendered, white people.

That's the way dad it, that's the way America does it, and it's worked out pretty well for us so far. :american
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Ichirou on December 23, 2016, 12:06:08 PM
Great Rumbler, are you a woke bae?
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: sarslip on December 23, 2016, 12:08:42 PM
oppo
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: etiolate on December 23, 2016, 12:54:26 PM
this needs woke
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 23, 2016, 01:21:13 PM
I nominate 'tribalism'
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Human Snorenado on December 23, 2016, 01:24:12 PM
Bigly, duh.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: bork on December 23, 2016, 01:26:03 PM
Gross
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 23, 2016, 01:41:27 PM
Triggered (as used by redditors et al, e.g.  "Oh, are you triggered, bro?")
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Phoenix Dark on December 23, 2016, 01:42:29 PM
Normalize, with problematic in #2.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Let's Cyber on December 23, 2016, 02:12:30 PM
Too many, can't pick just one. Most in the poll are awful.

Fuck 2016

 :sheik
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 23, 2016, 03:35:20 PM
Fam.  It is the worst.

It's been around forever, dude. First time I encountered it was in a Mobb Deep album.

Yeah, but back then it was lit. Now white people are using it and it's wack.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: etiolate on December 23, 2016, 03:43:29 PM
Tribal/tribalism
Optics
Establishment
Change election
Neoliberal
Server
Toxic
Disliked
Unfavorable
Pay-to-play
Quid-pro-quo
Disqualifying
Careless

I think you forgot electoral votes and polling
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: etiolate on December 23, 2016, 04:01:18 PM
I use fam and lit because I learned I have the power to kill words. You have to embrace your inner dirty old man and happily use shitty words. You can suck the cool out of them.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 23, 2016, 04:07:37 PM
isnt fam london slang
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 23, 2016, 04:53:34 PM
It's a 2014-2015 word per Urban Dictionary but fleek/on fleek is the worst.

Also I know of boring catladies who have been using "fam" for years.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 23, 2016, 05:22:43 PM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?ebc=ANyPxKrOZMTzt1bknX9zTKBCCmcWlIxA-y44Nf0_uZwsD1ZDN0VI0zlH924NSeiIlXqwH722lrAoTBjFFzoKxV6Ir4HksPHzjg&v=jIYjGNq9zO8
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: jakefromstatefarm on December 23, 2016, 05:45:58 PM
Triggered
this has trickled down into pleb usage. my ~18 year old cousin says this all the time
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Syph on December 23, 2016, 05:54:41 PM
Post-truth would've been my top choice until I noticed problematic up there.
The most Orwellian in its connotations and unfortunately very relevant today. Not to mention completely a product of the worst parts of the left.
Truly, problematic is a problematic word.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Beezy on December 23, 2016, 06:19:16 PM
isnt fam london slang
:lol

This whole thread is just... :cac
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Himu on December 23, 2016, 06:23:47 PM
Receipts is old as shit

:crazy

Most of this is basically "I hate black and LGBT slang"

Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Dickie Dee on December 23, 2016, 06:32:28 PM
Post-truth would've been my top choice until I noticed problematic up there.
The most Orwellian in its connotations and unfortunately very relevant today. Not to mention completely a product of the worst parts of the left.
Truly, problematic is a problematic word.

I think you heard the word Orwellian but have never read Orwell.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: PlayDat on December 23, 2016, 08:02:58 PM
I don't like problematic just because of how vague it is (and like most of the options it's been around for years).  It usually means "something about this is harmful, but I don't know the word for it".  Subjugation is much harder to overcome when you can't clearly define the variety you're experiencing.  Those in power like it that way.  Sometimes the right term doesn't exist yet and you have to invent it.  Ignorant people will make fun of you for using whatever you come up with, but they were probably doing that already.

"Cuck" is the worst one on the list by far, not because it's "problematic", but because it's racist.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: PlayDat on December 23, 2016, 08:11:40 PM
The Vine that popularized "fleek" (https://vine.co/v/5DazAheAthT) was a classic.  Like most good things on the internet it got run into the ground quickly.
2016 was the year white people ruined "woke".
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Mr. Nobody on December 23, 2016, 08:45:01 PM
isnt fam london slang
:lol

This whole thread is just... :cac

Whole board really  :doge
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Valkyrie on December 23, 2016, 10:03:26 PM
Yassss queen, slay dat poll.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Himu on December 23, 2016, 11:07:13 PM
I dunno, maybe because I'm in the South?

 Receipts has never been a thing.

 I've only heard it from White people recently on campus and I was born and raised in a poor Hispanic/Black community in a Hispanic family all my life.

Been seeing it for years and years. Really big in LGBT community. Whitney used it and LGBT folks starting using it because of YAS QUEEN pop culture
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Cerveza mas fina on December 24, 2016, 01:26:35 AM
ive haven felt this white since I walked down malcolm x boulevard
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Himu on December 24, 2016, 01:29:43 AM
I dunno, maybe because I'm in the South?

 Receipts has never been a thing.

 I've only heard it from White people recently on campus and I was born and raised in a poor Hispanic/Black community in a Hispanic family all my life.

Been seeing it for years and years. Really big in LGBT community. Whitney used it and LGBT folks starting using it because of YAS QUEEN pop culture
Yeah, I get YASS, it's been a thing forever and was recently picked up by LGBT peeps.

 None of my LGBT friends have ever used receipts though. I've only ever heard it from a few stereotypical valley girls in passing.

did you lgbt friends use stuff like tea, werk;etc in front of you?
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: naff on December 24, 2016, 03:36:30 AM
Joe and Beezy really summed it up
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: recursivelyenumerable on December 24, 2016, 04:44:30 AM
Cuck is the real answer but it feels too on the nose for a Bore poll so I have a hard time voting

I always thought of problematic as kind of an effete milquetoast academic word from the 90s so it was weird to see it used in the vulgar mainstream
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: curly on December 24, 2016, 06:25:24 AM
I use fam and lit because I learned I have the power to kill words. You have to embrace your inner dirty old man and happily use shitty words. You can suck the cool out of them.

You are the anus of the digestive system of linguistic appropriation, through which slang passes after all use value has been extracted. Just as you are the anus in all things you do
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Beezy on December 24, 2016, 10:43:46 AM
I use fam and lit because I learned I have the power to kill words. You have to embrace your inner dirty old man and happily use shitty words. You can suck the cool out of them.

You are the anus of the digestive system of linguistic appropriation, through which slang passes after all use value has been extracted. Just as you are the anus in all things you do
:dead
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: etiolate on December 24, 2016, 10:47:30 AM
tell me how you really feel
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: doctavius bonbon on December 24, 2016, 01:36:42 PM
tell me how you really feel

Shut up you fucking cuck

spoiler (click to show/hide)
jk it's all love fam :playa
[close]
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 24, 2016, 02:08:32 PM
I'm still fully in the appropriation camp, thank you. I try to to sound as much like Alyssa Edwards as I can get away with, gworl
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 24, 2016, 02:27:54 PM
I put like one black person word in the poll and suddenly I'm the bad guy?  :cmonson
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 24, 2016, 02:46:44 PM
But for real, though, cuck is definitely the worst. I'd rather all words be replaced with bae, fam, and lit than to hear cuck, like, once.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: nudemacusers on December 24, 2016, 03:10:51 PM
a lot of coded thug language itt  :doge
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: etiolate on December 24, 2016, 08:30:53 PM
I'm pretty sure there is an actual cuck or two on the board.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: CatsCatsCats on December 24, 2016, 09:44:29 PM
(http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/bizarrosgr/C7D7AE36-0EB6-4747-A833-9275456F22EE.jpg)
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: thisismyusername on December 25, 2016, 12:18:30 AM
Fuck you, Rumbler for adding options without the option to redo the vote. :maf Add one to "cuck," I guess.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 25, 2016, 01:13:40 AM
Well...it is Christmas...
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: tiesto on December 25, 2016, 02:21:46 AM
How about 'intersectionality'?
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Momo on December 25, 2016, 03:26:51 AM
I dont operate in circles where I get exposed to the word cuck often so I dont really care about it, this thread for example has quadrupled my yearly cuck intake.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Coax on December 25, 2016, 09:39:16 AM
The only meaningful context in which I've seen cuck used is to describe when someone is watching a situation get figuratively fucked and they have the ability/duty to stand up and do something but they instead become submissive/passive. An analogy based on the cuckolding fetish. In most other contexts it's a misused and annoying term.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Himu on December 25, 2016, 09:43:03 AM
How about 'intersectionality'?

what's wrong with it
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: thisismyusername on December 25, 2016, 09:53:58 AM
The only meaningful context in which I've seen cuck used is to describe when someone is watching a situation get figuratively fucked and they have the ability/duty to stand up and do something but they instead become submissive/passive. An analogy based on the cuckolding fetish. In most other contexts it's a misused and annoying term.

Lol no way was it ever used that way, at least not to my knowledge. It's mostly used as an insult against people not being racist because apparently that means wanting to see black dudes fuck your wife.

It morphed into "Cuckservative" which was amusing as hell. But then the internet morphed that into a general insult and it lost all meaning.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Vertigo on December 25, 2016, 03:31:54 PM
Do 'alt right' people actually use the word 'cuck' in real life not just the internet? I've always felt it's something shut ins use on the web to try and feel provocative.

I've noticed 'Savage' has now entered the mainstream which should hopefully kill it off quickly by early next year.

Yeah Fam and Lit have definitely been overused beyond acceptance, when the whitest guy at work starts describing his weekend as 'lit' it's time to retire that word.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Positive Touch on December 25, 2016, 04:00:12 PM
I use fam and lit because I learned I have the power to kill words. You have to embrace your inner dirty old man and happily use shitty words. You can suck the cool out of them.

You are the anus of the digestive system of linguistic appropriation, through which slang passes after all use value has been extracted. Just as you are the anus in all things you do

quoting this again so we can all bask in its pure majesty
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: D3RANG3D on December 25, 2016, 05:21:18 PM
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1327997
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Huff on December 29, 2016, 07:56:13 PM
2016
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Van Cruncheon on December 30, 2016, 11:40:46 PM
same as every year since 1985: nintendo
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Samson Manhug on January 04, 2017, 06:54:04 AM
https://twitter.com/craigsj/status/816042046825840640
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Momo on January 04, 2017, 09:44:16 AM
^ i have no idea what the fuck these kids are talking about
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: tiesto on January 04, 2017, 09:46:24 AM
Gotta agree with Zedd on this. WTF is AAVE?
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Yeti on January 04, 2017, 09:59:26 AM
African American Vernacular English
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: CatsCatsCats on January 04, 2017, 10:10:06 AM
Who incredulously asks wtf something is in 2017? We "post google" now too?
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Joe Molotov on January 04, 2017, 10:12:26 AM
It's 2017, lemme Bing that for you
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Valkyrie on January 04, 2017, 10:36:01 AM
^ i have no idea what the fuck these kids are talking about
ur an old fart
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: Coax on January 04, 2017, 10:36:09 AM
in tdaa y'all could post like this, obvs. jfgi.
Title: Re: Worst words of 2016
Post by: benjipwns on January 06, 2017, 03:10:29 AM
I considered it deeply, read all the opinions in the thread, and decided to go with "normalize."

I wanted to consider it within the scope of the year only. And it came late, and it was a reaction to it all and used as an explanation of it all and seemingly came about just this year. And it was utterly perfect.

I think it's because in the end your answer to things being yelling "this is not normal!" at events you can't control is pretty good encapsulation of exactly why events aren't "taking" the way you want. It probably helps that much of the year politically and culturally was spent voxsplaining just how "normal" things would be in the end.

Something I am guilty of as well. I helped to denormalize reality. Sorry for being a cuck in 2016, The Bore.