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When people describe something as a "vibe." I can't really put my finger on why. It just annoys me. Maybe it's the vagueness or that people who say it seem desperate to sound cool.

"feminist" simply because 90% of people don't know what that word means

'Feed' like Facebook feed or twitter feed or whatever social media feed. I guess mostly for the same reason as OP's. It makes people sound like brainless zombies just grazing on whatever is 'fed' to us by advertisers/whatever the platform has been paid to push .

“Woke”

"Lesbian." I don't hate the word, but the fact that it is considered dirty. Why is "brunette" or "blonde" perfectly acceptable, but "lesbian" or "gay" aren't?

People on the internet give me shit for the "woke" word, even though its meaning has really been lost right now into the bs american culture wars, while it was originally used in a positive mater it kinda has turned the other way around to describe a piece of media that has been compromised due to forced inclussion of a side message or hint of it to appear inclusive, and it feels manipulative and corporate aproved just for the sake of cheking demografic boxes for either trying to apeal to more demographics in a nearsighted way or just so that they get more money from weirdo investors like black rock or some other clowns. I like using it due to it describing very well what i just wrote in a single word, not because i dont agree with inclussion (i do), but most of the time its made in a corporate nearsighted way that ends up doing more damage than good.

Hate 'consumer' too. I know it is an accurate term per economics, but I remember when people still referred to themselves as customers. And like all shitty things, we just switched to the new standard without much noticing.

Btw not a word per se, but in a similar vein I hate how, when people talk about price, they slowly say e.g. 499.99. Just call it 500. That's what it is. By starting with a lower number, you give the listener's brain a second or two to start processing the information incorrectly.

Anyway I also hate words like "misinformation", "whataboutism" and other similar terms, as they are so often used to accuse people of wrongdoing even if there was no such intent, or quite the opposite. It's like a one-step way to try to win the argument.

Referring to artists as 'creatives'.

It implies to me that some have the capacity to be creative and some don't, which is simply ridiculous. It's also pretentious as fuck.

Oh and a big one I rather spun into another comment.

This one makes me cringe so hard - when YouTubers ask to "leave a comment down below", or even "in a comment section down below" or refer to "description down below".

Good grief, does this "Down Below" fellow pay everyone for advertising? Can you just fucking stop? I know there's a comment section, I know where it is, down and below is redundant, and in fact, don't tell me what to do, I'll comment if I feel like it, thank you very much. Also how about some originality? At least some keep trying to come up with new synonyms to tell me to "smash" the like button, but the comments, same shit everyone.

Gawd I hope YT starts penalising this at some point.

I had a girl tell me to eat her cunt and I immediately disengaged. Cunt is a great fun word as long as it's anything but a vagina. There are plenty of other words she could have said that day and I still would have blown her

'Ass' is a huge turnoff word for me. It could be one of the nicest part of the human body but also one of the worst, and is usually used to describe an awful smell and/or taste. Or a bad personality type. Even a mood. There aren't enough useful euphemisms in English to call a nice butt