Of course, the #Greeks had a word for such…

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Finally a name for the mess!
Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year is "slop" - defining the mass of low-quality AI garbage flooding our feeds.

Time to take out the digital trash! 🗑️🤖

#Funtellect #Slop #wordoftheyear2025 #USA #MerriamWebster #wordoftheyear

Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year is "slop" -
defining the mass of low-quality AI garbage flooding the web.

Finally, a name for the mess. 🗑️🤖

#TheLolgic #wordoftheyear2025 #slop #MerriamWebster #internetculture #artificialintelligence #usa #socialmedia #language

Coined in 2018, “doomscrolling” has become the native language of 2025, spoken fluently as the world collapses in real time—still, for me, the word of the year.
Any other suggestions?
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Memes & online trends remain central drivers of lexical change. Words like memeify & @dictionarycom.bsky.social choice “67” reflect how Generation Alpha is already shaping language through digital participation earlier & more visibly than previous generations.

#langsky #wordoftheyear2025

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Together, these terms chart a linguistic response to questions of authenticity, trust, manipulation & emotional labour in digital spaces.

#langsky #linguistics #language #wordoftheyear #wordoftheyear2025 #woty #woty2025

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Across dictionaries, a clear theme emerges: AI & online culture.

🔹 Vibe coding (Collins).
🔹 AI slop (Macquarie).
🔹 Parasocial (Cambridge).
🔹 Rage bait (Oxford).

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What’s especially striking about the 2025 Words of the Year is how clearly they show language shifting to keep pace with the digital & AI-driven world.

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Slop, vibe coding and glazing: AI dominates 2025’s words of the year Significant time is spent on tracking the usage of words throughout the year before making decisions on contenders.

For me, Word of the Year season is a little like Christmas — not just because it’s fun, but because it offers a snapshot of what’s been occupying our collective attention via language.

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Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.

'Rage bait' has been named as the 2025 word of the year by Oxford University Press.

"According to Oxford University Press... it is defined as online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive."

#OxfordUniversityPress
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All pointing to how digital life, algorithmic culture and AI continue reshaping the way we communicate, relate & construct identity.

#linguistics #language #wordoftheyear #wordoftheyear2025 #woty2025

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& across the dictionary world, we’re seeing a clear theme:

🤳 Cambridge chose parasocial.
👨‍💻 Collins chose vibe coding.

#linguistics #language #wordoftheyear #wordoftheyear2025 #woty2025

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OUP’s shortlisted runners-up also revealed a lot about contemporary culture:

🧑‍🌾 aura farming – curating a charismatic public persona.

☣️ biohack – optimising the body with tech, supplements & routines.

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Last year’s Word of the Year, brain rot, captured the cognitive drain of endless scrolling.

Pair it with rage bait, and you have a powerful loop: outrage → engagement → amplification → exhaustion.

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As OUP’s Casper Grathwohl explains, today’s platforms don’t just grab our attention — they shape & amplify our emotional responses.

It’s the “natural progression” in a tech-driven ecosystem where engagement metrics rule.

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We’ve moved from clickbait to emotion-bait.

Where early internet tactics relied on curiosity (“You won’t believe what happens next!”), rage bait hijacks our feelings. Outrage = engagement & engagement = profit.

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OUP defines rage bait as online content deliberately crafted to provoke anger or outrage.

Its usage has tripled over the past year, which tells us something important about the direction of our digital discourse.

#linguistics #language #wordoftheyear #wordoftheyear2025 #woty2025

Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.

Word of the Year season continues and Oxford University Press has now crowned rage bait as its 2025 winner.

It’s a choice that perfectly captures the emotional temperature of our online world.

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Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press The phrase - meaning to get angry scrolling through social media - beats aura farming and biohack to the title.

'Rage bait' named Oxford word of the year 2025

#OxfordUniversityPress #RageBait #WordOfTheYear2025 #BBC

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Do you have a parasocial relationship with a famous person?

The Cambridge Dictionary #WordOfTheYear2025 is "parasocial": involving or relating to a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous person they do not know, a character in a book, film, TV series, etc., or an AI.

Capturing the 2025 zeitgeist, #parasocial is our Cambridge Dictionary #WordOfTheYear2025.

We asked @cam.ac.uk's Professor @simoneschnall.bsky.social to explain what’s driving the rise of parasocial relationships.

🔗 Learn more about our #CambridgeWOTY: https://cambrid.ge/4if1CTq

Why has America’s economy gone K-shaped? The wealthy are doing well. Everybody else is scrimping.

The wealthy are doing well. Everyone else is scrimping.

Welcome to the "K-shaped economy."

#WealthInequality #KShapedEconomy #CdnPoli #EconSky #CanadaSky #TaxFairness #WordofTheYear2025

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First Post: Thursday, October 30, 2025 This kind of lingo has us at sixes and sevens… Good to know that the kids are still driving us toward the vibrant, vital language of our times, even if the words themselves are numerals and, …

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If the dictionaries announce a word of the year for 2025 that isn't #genocide or #antifa, they haven't been awake
#WordOfTheYear2025

It’s not a cost of living crisis.
It’s a consequences of accepting billionaires as a legitimate entity crisis.
Forget cozzie livs.
How can we get “conzie bils” up as word of the year?
#conziebils #eattherich #yeettherich #seizethemeansofproduction #killionaires #wordoftheyear #wordoftheyear2025

New nomination for #WordOfTheYear2025

#GormlessPillock

New Year’s resolutions are not my thing. Instead I choose a Word of the Year and focus on it throughout the seasons like a touchstone.

My 2025 Word of the Year is…

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Selecting a single word to focus on throughout the year is a simple yet profound exercise. Read our blog to learn about this philosophy & why we choose JOY! www.ourgiftbiz.com/blog/finding-joy-embraci...

What word will you choose?

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After giving it serious thought, my prediction for #WordOfTheYear2025 is Clusterfuck.

I just have a feeling, y’all.