Stale Twitter wit and phrases the world should abandon

The awful trend of posting an image with a caption labelled something like "When you run into an old Ex " or "When you have been up all night with insomnia ", etc etc.

So many examples I don't know where to start. The worst thing is that this juvenile internet speak has permeated pretty much every publication. No one is willing to speak like an adult anymore. One example is the trend of throwing the word fuck around in headlines, IE "Starbucks Has A new Drink and It's Delicious As Fuck ". The other is the preachy, bratty teachers pet style of discussing controversial subjects " No, It's Not Okay to Watch [controversial actor or director 's ] New Film. " or "No, You Don't Have The Right to [whatever ]". I'm so sick of some spoiled millennial Ivy League brat with very little real world experience preaching to me what I need to think and feel. I hate this trend of sneering and rolling eyes at everyone who has a different viewpoint than what is popular.

"[X celebrity or famous person ] Did [X ] Because of Course He did. " I hate the "of course " trend.

I actually love that, r1! Memes.

Clap back

No one:

No one at all:

Literally not one soul:

So annoying. And this is coming from a 23 year old who is in this demographic

Also, I remember seeing a really popular tweet on twitter after Aziz Ansari came out with his new Netflix special that was “So, when did we decide Aziz Ansari was allowed to have a comeback?”

Like seriously? We are just all one collective brain “canceling” people at will? So meanspirited and juvenile

I really wish there was a plugin that just auto ignores any replies to posts that consist of memes. Any response consisting solely of a gif gets immediately binned. It's prevalent mostly in the, shall we say, pleb part of Twitter, especially Black Twitter, Gay Twitter, and any B, C, or D-list celebrity/reality show posts.

Let that sink in.

R7 that's the Buzzfeed clickbait pollution. It's infected the culture to such a degree that people speak in it and write their Tweets like it.

Example - CNN used to have a decent homepage. But they hired some new person to run it and make it profitable and the solution seems to be to add clickbait and the headlines are now Buzzfeed-esque using the same lingo, as well as sponsored posts and "buy this thing, it will change your life" affiliate links. I'm not sure if this was an intentional decision or just what fresh journalism students are taught now, because even on the Washington Post website there are headlines that are clearly clickbait.

R6 it's infected you because you didn't put ending punctuation on either of your posts!

The phrase "call out ". Another one, though I'm not sure if this can be blamed on twitter is this bizarre and newfangled way of writing news headlines. In the past an article would have been headlined "5 Injured in Roller Coaster Accident ". Now it would read " They Wanted A Fun Day At the Theme Park. Then the Roller Coaster Broke ". So fucking obnoxious .

"x is cancelled"

Good God, what DO you want to read on Twitter? This thread covers literally ALL tweets.

The rampant use of "folks."

R15 thanks, Obama!

What We Know About blah blah blah

Starting every pronouncement with "So"

"Because" + noun

Dakoduh has texted me like 63 times but I haven't responded, because feels.

Someone bring me a pizza, because need.

Watching good-boy videos all night, because cutenesses.

R18 Doesn't JoeMyGod do that a lot?

"Because Jesus!"

I'm a Millennial but I learned that from him.

Memes and catchphrases don't bother me much, honestly. The only one that grates is "Wow. Just wow." because it's been around nearly 20 years; it was listed as an overused phrase a decade ago in a Jezebel article, which is saying something.

[quote]I'm so sick of some spoiled millennial Ivy League brat with very little real world experience preaching to me what I need to think and feel.

Look, I don't know why so many people take this kind of thing so personally, but at some point you and everyone else like you is going to have to grow up and take some responsibility for your own internet experience.

No one is lecturing you unless you LET them lecture you. So some 20-something wrote an article and some 30-something editor put a clickbait headline on it. Who the fuck cares? Why are you looking at some HuffPo headline and internalizing it as though it was speaking directly to you?

There is only a certain type of online writing outlet that uses the kind of headlines you're complaining about. Why are you even on those websites?

If you're seeing links to those websites from people you follow on social media, why are you following them? Mute them, unfollow, use some keywords to get rid of those articles, and stop pretending like they're about you, because they're not.

A lot of these have been around forever.

"Because" followed by a noun dates back to at least 15 years on political blogs, but it may have shown up earlier. Anyone who was on TWoP should remember it.

The headlines R12 and R17 describe have been used in print magazines for decades. Those are probably the only things retained from the old print media.

R21, I'd normally agree with you about just ignoring things, but those insipid articles and phrases are the first things that come up in many internet searches. It's virtually impossible to "mute" or "unfollow" them - they are often first to come up on Google or other internet search engines on popular topics. What "key word" can you use to avoid them?

R2 is right. It's true that many adult journalists today, covering mainstream culture, write like 15-year-old tweens :). Society is dumbing down.

Slightly off-topic: But I hate how every fart is “BREAKING NEWS” these days

R2 and r12, you sure love your space bar, don’t you?

Christ!

[Russian troll headline] BOOM!

Marcia Brady is dragging this thread on Twitter because #haters.

I don’t know why it’s so popular. Only gay men over the age of 50 have the skills and thick-skin to handle Twitter without losing their minds..

R22 sounds like a Millennial trying to justify his Twitter-speak.

The point is they're overused and tired and no longer witty phrases and should be retired, and those who use them, killed and stuffed.

[quote] [R15] thanks, Obama!

Yes I blame Obama for that. Also the contrived use of "conversation."

"Just a Friendly Reminder" followed with an obnoxious moralising statement.

"But her emails!" owns this thread.

"Owns this thread"

"It's 2019!" (Or whatever the year is)

OP, are you sure you aren't just pissed about people tweeting bad things about Trump?

R35 Yes I'm sure 🙄

Blah blah blah

blah blah blah

blah blah blah

It's still only 9:35am

"I just. I can't even"

Any over-used lyrics from Taylor Swift's puerile, teenage-IQ songs:

"#Haters gonna hate".

People seem to have forgotten what the word "hate" actually means. Any dissent or critique is now labelled "hate" on Twitter. Because, as a social platform, it's overrun with 15-year-olds.

YOU GUYS

Well, I never in all my life.

41 that's a Datalounge thing, not Twitter

I still like "Thanks, Obama!" especially when trumpkins crow about the long economic upturn.

You didn't mention "Who gives a fuck?"

I miss "BOMBSHELL TONIGHT!"

"Repeat after me"