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The Sloppification of Slop - CatTrigger

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Slop was totally a thing people used before AI slop became a thing tho. So doesnt really fit in with the others.
slop = slop
AI slop = AI slop
- "Woke" has been a term most white people were just unaware of for decades. "Gaslighting" is from a century-old story.
  
  Gaslighting isn’t even real
  
  Idk if it existed before, but iirc it began as a reference to matrix.
  Then redpilled came as the parallel, as in Neo takes the red pill and wakes up from the simulation (woke), but the meaning was utterly twisted to say people that have taken the republican pill and are brainwashed.
  Redpilled people using woke to describe people that, in their minds, have been brainwashed, is extremely funny with this context.
  I'm kinda sad that we lost the "take the red pill" term due to them tho.
  
  Exactly, they were old unused terms that people revived with a new meaning. Slop was not like that.
People hate AI slop, but you know who's going to make it acceptable? Children. They will grow up using AI generator apps and websites. So at some point, us adults will have to accept it. It reminds me of dating apps and websites when it was considered taboo and seen as sad to use them. Twenty years later, dating apps are now ubiquitous and normalise them because younger folks made it normal.
- You're not wrong. But I low-key wish to hate you for how simple and inevitable you've put it. I won't shoot the messenger, but I want to.
Conceptually, isn't content that focuses exclusively on being content and pandering to the algorithm slop in the same way AI stuff doing the same thing is slop? Isn't that what the term is getting at, the quality of being a hollow product devoid of sincere expression?
I do not understand people who get uptight about English. French? Sure (I'm still gonna laugh at them, but I get it).
English has always been a joke of a language and I have nothing but respect and sympathy for people who pick it up as a second+. So long as you're understood, it's fine. Brutalizing it is half the fun. See how far you can bend it and still get your point across.
The speed at which it mutates is also interesting just to watch, and I say that as someone who isn't even a linguist. How quickly a term catches on, gets overused, and migrates to ironic is culturally fascinating. I type like this and use proper spelling because it's a stylistic choice for how I represent myself on the internet, but I couldn't give a damn if you use the wrong you're/your when half of you buffoons are spelling it "ur" anyways. I'm not ur English teacher, do what you want.
- Your argument is perfectly cromulent.
  
  Indubitably
  
  His noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
  
  Mmm, yes. Shallow and pedantic.
- So long as you’re understood, it’s fine.
  Burying the lede here.
  But also like language shapes the way we think. If you just let all your words boil down into "good" and "ungood", you're reducing your tools for thinking. 1984 and The Dispossessed are great books, by the way.
  
  Lol, wut?
  Burying the lede here.
  I don't think this is the expression you intended to use, or if it was, you used it poorly.
  In my post I:
  Open by indicating that I think it is foolish to enforce strict language standards
  Affirm this point by saying that the primary purpose is to simply be understood
  Expand on this point by saying I think it's cool that language evolves
  Where did you even pull that "good" and "ungood" dichotomy from?! Don't be smarmy and quote high school literature reading lists at me. But if that's the extent of your repertoire, perhaps I have some recommendations for you 🫤
Slop is such an overused term that my eyes just drift away whenever I read it. Use words more better.

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