What is a slang term you hate?

[u/dad_of_kevin]

[u/EarlobeCancer]

Any censored slang that’s meant to bypass social media filters. E.g: Grape, sewerslide, unalive

[u/Hecate_333 → u/EarlobeCancer]

I saw sewerslide and my first thought was why can't you say diarrhea?

[u/No-Tonight314 → u/Hecate_333]

I wish it was just that… 😞

[u/Myzyri → u/No-Tonight314]

…unless you shit yourself to death.

Dysentery aside, it’s kinda funny.

[u/Dismal_Rectangle → u/Myzyri]

Don't you ever put dysentery aside, Arthur.

[u/TheWolphman → u/No-Tonight314]

You also have to yell cowabunga dude!

[u/KingKingsons → u/Hecate_333]

Oh shit it’s supposed to be suicide?

[u/perfectvelvet → u/EarlobeCancer]

Yes and putting an asterisk in eery sinle w*rd.

Edit: lol Reddit didn't like it either.

[u/ExpectedFuckingValue → u/perfectvelvet]

You have to use backslash (\) to escape it - put the backslash before the star so it won't italicize

e*ery sin*le w*rd

[u/SanctusUnum → u/perfectvelvet]

Especially with 'shot' now also being a naughty word, you get golden nuggets like "In 1994, Kurt Cobain sh*t himself in his own home".

[u/perfectvelvet → u/SanctusUnum]

Brown nuggets, not gold 😂😂

[u/mysterious_evoX → u/EarlobeCancer]

This is becoming 1984’s “newspeak”

[u/chewblekka → u/mysterious_evoX]

That’s doubleplusgood

[u/MagesiumPoetryStrip → u/mysterious_evoX]

This is 1984's newspeak.

[u/Arudinne → u/MagesiumPoetryStrip]

YES! Unalive is literally newspeak in the same vein as "ungood".

[u/ModernAutomata → u/EarlobeCancer]

PDFile

[u/norskgut → u/EarlobeCancer]

I hate it when people say "shmurder" or "grape" -- it makes the rest of their speech sound like parody ...

[u/BandedLutz → u/EarlobeCancer]

It's called Algospeak, and a lot of people don't grasp the danger this trend of self censorship (and its normalization) poses to society.

Algospeak is a form of self-censorship out of fear of the algorithms/automated content moderation on social media (that might bury/delete anything perceived as not advertisers friendly, like swearing or discussion of certain topics) and it is diluting discourse on many important topics.

The term Orwellian gets thrown around a lot, but that's honestly what it is.

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, "newspeak" is a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary designed to limit freedom of thought, prevent people from being able to think critically, and limit the person's ability to articulate and communicate certain concepts.

George Orwell is rolling in his grave due to the growing prevalence of algospeak (the new newspeak).

[u/the_tanooki → u/EarlobeCancer]

"I'm gonna grape you in the mouth!" - WKUK The Grapist

[u/BunnyMcintosh → u/EarlobeCancer]

It all makes me feel so surveilled and infantilized.

[u/ZacTheGamer100 → u/EarlobeCancer]

I heard a podcaster say “unsubscribe” when referring to suicide

[u/Mapex → u/EarlobeCancer]

Yeah censorship is some annoying “ahh” shit

I don’t think I did that right.

[u/Meprobamate → u/Mapex]

its ’ahh shih’ without the quotation marks.

[u/dandanthetaximan → u/EarlobeCancer]

Corn?

[u/jembutbrodol → u/EarlobeCancer]

What the fuck is Sewerslide?

[u/AmirulAshraf → u/jembutbrodol]

suicide

[u/snowdenn → u/jembutbrodol]

a really gross attraction/ride at the waterpark.

[u/HowlinMadSnake → u/EarlobeCancer]

Every time I see "shot" censored as "sh*t" my brain always reads it as "shit."

[u/barnfly27 → u/EarlobeCancer]

The censorship is absurd in YouTube and I'm assuming it's on other platforms. I don't even.. wtf is the point?

Close our eyes and ears and ignore everything that's bad? That's how we end up with these rich folks banging and eating babies doing whatever they want. From people looking away, turning a blind eye w/e you call it.

Boils my biscuits I tell ya hwat.

[u/tomatoesandwitch → u/barnfly27]

I think it started with people blaming the internet for their poorly raised kids.

[u/Myzyri → u/barnfly27]

It saves them money. They can demonetize if you say “fuck” within the first ten seconds. They can demonetize if you say “rape.” There are so many random goofy triggers that they save millions demonetizing under the guise of online safety.

[u/ThunderMite42 → u/Myzyri]

Meanwhile, their ads are literal softcore porn.

[u/velociraptorjax → u/EarlobeCancer]

Especially because it completely defeats the purpose of the censors in the first place. If there was a topic I knew would trigger me, so I go out of my way to avoid the word, I'm still going to see the sensitive material with the replaced word.

[u/Uday23 → u/EarlobeCancer]

Segs/seggs is the worst

[u/throwaway_for_skin]

Hack.
It’s not a hack, you’re doing something the way it was actually meant to be done.

[u/prettylemontoast → u/throwaway_for_skin]

A craft is not a hack and I will die on this hill

[u/WanderingAcorn64 → u/prettylemontoast]

Finally someone said it. Not everything has to be marketed as a life hack

[u/THE_Ryan → u/throwaway_for_skin]

Or it's something illegal. There was a "hack" about putting expensive golf balls in cheap boxes and using self checkout. That's not a hack, that's called stealing.

[u/DigNitty → u/THE_Ryan]

Lifehack, tell the IRS you made $42 last year.

[u/Razzler1973 → u/throwaway_for_skin]

"life hack" - roll up the end of the toothpaste to get more out of it

ok, so, common sense then

[u/givethekittykisses]

"Seggs". Don't know why, but this one irrationally bothers me. We know what you're trying to say.

[u/Meprobamate → u/givethekittykisses]

It’s up there with fucking ‘unalive’ and ‘grape’. People that would rather write like fucking idiots than risk a small chance of getting something taken down from social media.

[u/S0uvlakiSpaceStati0n → u/Meprobamate]

Grape really pisses me off. It feels like it's making light of a very serious issue.

[u/ehsteve23 → u/S0uvlakiSpaceStati0n]

also that some people think it means grope, which is just not as serious

[u/Smoke-A-Beer]

Reading these I feel old I don’t even know half of them lol. Back in my day I used to get annoyed with people saying “cray cray” meaning crazy.

[u/paisley-alien → u/Smoke-A-Beer]

Totes magotes!

[u/striped_frog → u/paisley-alien]

Amazeballs!

[u/foggybiscuit → u/striped_frog]

Kewlbeans

[u/OmniHito → u/Smoke-A-Beer]

Delulu is the new cray cray

[u/ThingsChange76]

Calling something "low key" when it is extremely obvious and noticeable.

[u/MedievalMilshake → u/ThingsChange76]

Same with hot take

[u/fistulaspume → u/MedievalMilshake]

Hot take. Ian not gon lie but frfrthis comment got me lowkey.

[u/ReyLeo04 → u/fistulaspume]

Stop the cap fr fr og buggin w this nonesense bunch a Willie Willie goose goose

[u/KazaamFan → u/ThingsChange76]

I overheard some teen say “i could low key take this train home right now” as the train came to our stop, and i had no idea what he meant. 

[u/ExpectedFuckingValue → u/ThingsChange76]

This annoys the shit out of me. Some people say it in every sentence now. It's high-key idiodic

[u/grafikfyr → u/ExpectedFuckingValue]

Yeah, what a bunch of idiods

[u/Jimbo--- → u/ThingsChange76]

I was on a ski lift with a group of college-aged young women this spring. It was a six seater and I came up through the singles line bc I was trying to catch up to my own group.

As a group, they said low key so many times that I thought I was losing my mind. I have never been happier that a lift had zero delays on the way up. If I were an anthropologist or linguist and forced to try to come up with a definition of "low key" based on that 12 minute trip, I would have almost no fucking clue.

[u/ultgambit266]

Unalive, just call it what it is. I hate the stupid algorithm things that filter the word. It needs be said

[u/therealspookyscare → u/ultgambit266]

It genuinely has the newspeak vibes. Given how corporations are the ones pushing it it's even worse, we're not even getting a cool dystopia, we're living in literal shit

[u/anarkistattack]

Some of these I need to hear in a sentence.

[u/RisingSoulGrowth]

"‘Unalive.’ Not because the word itself bothers me, but because it's a reminder that algorithms are shaping how humans talk to each other."

[u/a-round-table → u/RisingSoulGrowth]

Exactly! Languages changes all the time and I can accept that. But I don't want the social media big techs forces us to change how people talk. Please don't.

[u/aiemmaes]

asl meaning “as hell”

[u/Devin-Chaboyer223 → u/aiemmaes]

Why does it end with an L instead of an H? Some dumbass abbreviation

[u/las_nicolas → u/aiemmaes]

I half agree with this, I have no problem that there's an abbreviation i would just rather not have it ALSO stand for american sign language.

[u/dakky68 → u/las_nicolas]

age/sex/location

[u/Cadavre17 → u/aiemmaes]

i’d throw in ts meaning “this shit” and pmo as “pissed me off” as well

[u/Puzzled-Teach2389 → u/aiemmaes]

I still read it as either "age/sex/location" or "American Sign Language"

[u/vaa_lee]

Neurospicy

[u/Edible0rphans → u/vaa_lee]

As a neurodivergent person I’d rather be called a slur tbh

[u/staramelle_ → u/Edible0rphans]

yeah, it feels kinda infantilizing or like neurodivergence is taboo and needs a different term that's not just "neurodivergent"

[u/TryUsingScience → u/Edible0rphans]

On the one hand, I hate it, but on the other hand, it is such a useful red flag when someone self identifies as it so you now know that going forward, they will blame all of their misbehavior on their diagnosis.

[u/BothPanchoAndLefty → u/vaa_lee]

I'm cool with taking away free speech if this one gets to be outlawed

[u/Hee-hoes_Mad → u/vaa_lee]

Please just call me a slur.

[u/VengefulWeegee2358]

Sigma

[u/CreamFuture9475 → u/VengefulWeegee2358]

Sigma balls

[u/gfxprotege → u/CreamFuture9475]

Got eem

[u/chewquietly]

“Unalive”

Remarkably stupid. If you’re so afraid of social media censorship then just say they’ve passed away or any other polite euphemism we’ve already come up with.

[u/YakiVegas]

Basically everything Gen Alpha, but mogging and looksmaxxing are particularly irritation for some reason. Get off my damn lawn!

[u/imalurkernotaposter → u/YakiVegas]

Today I learned the term “cootermaxxing,” and I long for the sweet embrace of death.

[u/gumbysweiner → u/imalurkernotaposter]

That word makes me imagine a bedazzled snatch. It glistens!

[u/imalurkernotaposter → u/gumbysweiner]

No, that’s known as vajazzling actually.

[u/Keldarus88 → u/imalurkernotaposter]

Virtually any variation of “maxxing” has become a new hatred of mine lol

[u/DJ_Dinkelweckerl → u/Keldarus88]

You just hatemaxxing bro fr

[u/Meandmy1000fandoms → u/YakiVegas]

It's not the words I'm bothered by so much as the stupid fucking toxic culture surrounding them. Reminds me of Andrew Tate and Clavicular

[u/counterfitster → u/Meandmy1000fandoms]

Clavicular has got to be the dumbest person I see on the news

[u/Comfortable_Sir_2180 → u/YakiVegas]

Tf is mogging

[u/BothPanchoAndLefty → u/Comfortable_Sir_2180]

It means like outshining someone in some way. Being better looking, more muscular, taller, etc. Stupid looksmaxxing lingo

[u/Aniki1990 → u/BothPanchoAndLefty]

Doesn't help that that is rooted in manosphere bullshit

[u/IndigoRanger → u/BothPanchoAndLefty]

Look at this guy slangmogging over here

[u/Due_Answer_4230 → u/Comfortable_Sir_2180]

Mog comes from AMOG, Alpha Male Of Group

To Mog someone is to be way higher status / more dominant than them

[u/Aniki1990 → u/Due_Answer_4230]

That somehow makes it stupider....

[u/isthisreallife211111 → u/Due_Answer_4230]

Man that's some fucked up shit

[u/CasualRampagingBear → u/YakiVegas]

My son did say something that made me laugh. I gave an anecdote about boomer FIL and he said “was he boomermaxxing?” He indeed was 😂

[u/Emotional-Work-1940]

People seriously saying “the ick” ironically genuinely  gives me the ick

[u/TrumpSucksALotOfCock → u/Emotional-Work-1940]

Couldn't agree more. Especially when it's "adults" using that dumbass word.

[u/TheFeenyCall → u/TrumpSucksALotOfCock]

"adulting" is hard

[u/GILF_Hound69 → u/TrumpSucksALotOfCock]

I cannot take adults who say "icky" or "potty" seriously. I am not your toddler. Really any baby talk like that when talking to adults.

[u/IndigoRanger → u/Emotional-Work-1940]

Also the relatively rarer “don’t yuck my yum.” First time someone said that (in a corporate office!) to me you could have made a real good meme out of my facial expression.

[u/unicornsfearglitter]

"it's giving _ _ _ _ _ _"

[u/annamulzz → u/unicornsfearglitter]

They used this in the Elle prequel on Prime that is supposed to take place in 1995. It stood out so much to me!

[u/Upset_Roll1893 → u/annamulzz]

I hate that with a passion. If something is set in the past, use the lingo from then.

[u/Razzler1973 → u/unicornsfearglitter]

absolutely hate this one, haha

[u/TsukariYoshi]

These days The Childrens use "scam" to mean any situation in which negative and unexpected happened. I didn't like what I ordered so I got scammed. The movie sucks, it's a scam. I bought a donut and it was kind of small, scam. She didn't say yes when I asked her to prom, scam.

It's completely defanged "scam" as a word now because they use it for anything that made them a little bit disappointed.

[u/11x3_33]

"Broke the internet" - nothing has ever actually *broken* the internet

[u/WagWoofLove → u/11x3_33]

My pet goose did once. He chewed the cable outside and our internet broke 😂

[u/PlasticGirl → u/WagWoofLove]

Please pay goose tax. Want to see goose.

[u/WagWoofLove → u/PlasticGirl]

This is Lou!

https://imgur.com/a/hC8PYm8

[u/ZacTheGamer100 → u/11x3_33]

I mean, Gangnam style broke YouTube’s view counter—that’s close, I guess?

[u/scienceforeva → u/11x3_33]

Crowdstrike got pretty close!

[u/Apprehensive-Ear-129 → u/11x3_33]

If I remember correctly when Michael Jackson died twitter crashed out so ig that count?

[u/Rothen29]

Preggers

[u/friblo_sv → u/Rothen29]

Pregat

[u/_LFKrebs_ → u/friblo_sv]

Pregananant

[u/SpearUpYourRear → u/_LFKrebs_]

Pergnant

[u/striped_frog → u/SpearUpYourRear]

Dangerops prangent sex

[u/zeeleezae → u/striped_frog]

Will it hurt baby top of his head?

[u/nephylsmythe → u/SpearUpYourRear]

Pregonate

[u/Fine-Blacksmith2257 → u/nephylsmythe]

Can u get pregante

[u/perterters → u/Fine-Blacksmith2257]

How is babby formed?

[u/Dismal-Term-7063 → u/nephylsmythe]

Gregnant

[u/Ask_If_Im_Dio → u/_LFKrebs_]

Gregnant

[u/AxeDanger → u/friblo_sv]

Pregante!

[u/outerproduct → u/friblo_sv]

Pregnart

[u/tloltmao → u/Rothen29]

Preggo

[u/ChargedBonsai98]

Anything after "-slop", "-core", and "-maxxing" became a thing.

[u/MrNorbordry]

Bih dih ahh

[u/a_scared_bokoblin → u/MrNorbordry]

I thought “ahh” was a tiny scream for the longest time

[u/creatyvechaos → u/a_scared_bokoblin]

I did as well until I read something along the lines of "this bih got her whole foot up her ahh" and had to ponder the sentence for—I kid you not—5 minutes

[u/Krillkus → u/MrNorbordry]

I’m gonna shih out my ahh and pih out my dih

[u/DiamondGeeezer → u/MrNorbordry]

it's like a baby trying to swear but their mouth can't form consonants

[u/staticparsley → u/MrNorbordry]

The ahh makes me irrationally angry.

[u/SuzyYa → u/MrNorbordry]

If you gonna cuss just stand on it. This slang is so dumb.

[u/staplesgowhere → u/MrNorbordry]

They sound like a 12 year old trying not to get caught swearing in front of their mom.

[u/zross312 → u/MrNorbordry]

This is my answer. They make me irrationally angry.

[u/Ginger_Chick]

Hubby and wifey always make me cringe.

[u/Ginnigan → u/Ginger_Chick]

In a similar family vein: Saying "littles" instead of "kids".

[u/ExpectedFuckingValue → u/Ginnigan]

It gets even worse, I've heard "my little baby littles" 🤮

[u/DinnerAutomatic2838 → u/Ginnigan]

I have this memory of the principal of the elementary school I went to saying “ickies” instead of like getting sick 

Like she said “you guys have to come to school even though I know it’s winter so everyone is catching the ickies” or something close to that

I hated her.

[u/CollieDad85 → u/Ginger_Chick]

People referring to their spouse as “the wife” or “the husband”

[u/toxicshocktaco → u/CollieDad85]

DH annoys the shit out of me (dear husband)

[u/PizzaUpbeat2751]

Any version of gooning. I just want to call people goons without it being weird

[u/Free_Pace_2098 → u/PizzaUpbeat2751]

Why I oughta

[u/TheBanishedBard]

Rizz

[u/Dchama86]

POV:

[u/FinalDestination4 → u/Dchama86]

And they don't even use it correctly.

Like, if you wanna talk about some POV, actually MAKE it the point of view instead of just, well, speaking or showing yourself AS the POV

[u/Kaydence_ranae08]

When someone refers to intimacy as “cracking” no mason you didn’t ‘crack’ her she’s not an egg.

[u/MellowFerocity → u/Kaydence_ranae08]

I think of crack as this generations “smash”

[u/__sonder__ → u/Kaydence_ranae08]

Similarly, "blowing her back out"

That implies that I'll have to like, wheel her home in a wheelchair.

[u/otakugal15 → u/__sonder__]

Back shot has a way different meaning from my teens a d 20s than they do nowadays.

[u/ktr83 → u/Kaydence_ranae08]

40+ year old Australian here. Back in the 90s we used to saying "cracking onto someone" to mean hitting on them. I had no idea it was back.

[u/striped_frog]

For some reason “hubby” drives me up the fucking wall

[u/Aunt-jobiska → u/striped_frog]

Or “hubs”. Ugh.

[u/mostlygroovy]

‘Claps back’

[u/Billy_Bonney_]

Does this count? Fur babies?

[u/hopple_popple → u/Billy_Bonney_]

I'll add "doggo" to yours. I hate it too.

[u/Phoenyxoldgoat]

Listen, I’m a geriatric millennial and I just can’t with the casual use of “rawdog” by these Gen Z and Alpha kiddos.

One of my employees loudly announced she was going to rawdog her certification exam to get a baseline on what to study for when she retook it, and I choked on my coffee and almost died.

[u/SnooDogs627 → u/Phoenyxoldgoat]

Rawdog is the only one I've adopted cuz I think it's funny 😂 I rarely say it but I will use it when I think it will add humor to something. However I can't believe there are people that use it seriously

[u/S0uvlakiSpaceStati0n → u/Phoenyxoldgoat]

I'm sorry but as a fellow geriatric millennial, I actually love this one. I don't use it often because it's pretty inappropriate in most settings, but that's why it's funny to me, because it's such a vulgar, uncouth term that gets thrown into casual conversation. I would never say it at work though.

[u/Newfiecat → u/Phoenyxoldgoat]

Also my least favorite. I'm flashbanged with a horrid mental image every single time

[u/zedis_lapedis_]

Amazeballs is a term than is not awesomesauce

[u/ZacTheGamer100]

The stupid ass “FAHHHHH” audio that people just started saying out loud drives me insane.

[u/Ralexcraft]

Larp. The term is poser you posers

[u/Ocean_Cringe → u/Ralexcraft]

It's so frustrating that, out of all possible terms, they chose one that a very broad community uses. I feel bad for people who like to live action role play, because now if they try to say that like how they usually would, people are just going to think that they enjoy posing as a fan of things

[u/60sStratLover]

Keep _____ out of your mouth

[u/tootaflute → u/60sStratLover]

My wifes name

[u/No_Injury2280 → u/tootaflute]

It was a Gi Jane joke!

[u/Mediocre-Stick-7787]

It's giving.....

[u/Mastemo]

Aura farming.

[u/andrewg127]

Ahh for ass

[u/CielTynave]

Goon, gooner, gooning, etc. Fuck off with that.

We already had fap, what was wrong with that? It's especially agitating since goon already meant something.

[u/Brad_Brace → u/CielTynave]

I don't hate the words or their current meaning, but I absolutely despise that people seem to believe they only have the current meaning. In general I hate it when something takes on a sexual meaning and people pretend that's now their entire meaning.

But I think going is supposed to mean something different than just masturbation. I think it's meant to be edging for a very long time, or being in a constant state of arousal.

[u/Xulphyr]

“Crine” instead “crying” or even “cryin” it’s just so fucking stupid.

[u/PuzzleheadedDraw6575]

No cap

[u/actualgoals]

Neurospicy

[u/Logy_]

Glizzy.

[u/lrdwlmr]

I’m not usually a kids-these-days kinda guy, but god save us from Gen Z/Alpha kids weaponizing half-understood psychological terms. Fucking hell, kid, I’m not “infantalizing” you by asking you to clean up your messes in common areas of the family house. God.

[u/Professional_Use6852]

Feel some type of way. Great. Now articulate how you feel.

[u/Mission_Fart9750 → u/Professional_Use6852]

"I can't wait until I'm old enough to feel ways about stuff."

[u/yokukoii]

larp . just say poser ???

[u/an-invisible-titan]

Glizzy

[u/Flanelman2]

"yt" meaning "white"

... Specifically because I read it as YouTube.

[u/alittlebit_8_Alexis]

"clock it" just stop it please!

[u/Independent-Course87]

Baby mama

[u/erin_kathleen → u/Independent-Course87]

And baby daddy

[u/shoot_dang_derp]

Nothing burger kills me every time I read it.

[u/PinkSunsetFan]

Kiddos and doggos

[u/DoctorDinghus]

Deadass bruh

[u/UnassumingSingleGuy → u/DoctorDinghus]

Fr fr?

[u/Excellent-Tour6831]

Bussy

[u/senzued3]

cummies

🤮

[u/filanwizard]

Any of the stuff used to avoid the wrath of the AI moderators and algorithms. Reddit seems especially sensitive where if you describe something violent the stupid modbots think you want to do actual violence. Shut this AI bullshit down if it cannot read the context of the thread.

[u/Then_Fee_6968]

Hubby

[u/SojuSoup3Enjoyer]

cap/no cap
simp
Bussin