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Mine is Consumer.

I hate that word because it is simply a word to brand anybody as lesser than in the eyes of capitalism. It makes your existence look like that is all that you're to do, to be doing and to exist for. Just consume shit. Consume media. Consume content. Consume this and that.

The only association I would use consumption and consume in is in regards to food. Not every god damn thing else and it's pathetic that the word has been applied to everything to the point of it being normalized.

I would prefer buyer or customer. Not Consumer.

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[-] nigh7y@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

On that vein, companies calling their employees by their name suffixed with -er (or similar). Anything to fit in culturally or whatever the hell they want.

It always comes across as insincere and disingenuous.

[-] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Companies 'speaking' is always disingenuous.

[-] AlHouthi4President@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago
[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 9 points 1 day ago

Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with 'grifter' at this point as most 'influencers' are trying to run a grift of some kind.

[-] FriendOfDeSoto@startrek.website 11 points 2 days ago

I would prefer buyer or customer. Not Consumer.

If I could just quickly split this hair: there is a semantic difference. The buyer or customer paid money. The consumer needn't have. If I buy my kid a Switch 2 I'm the buyer and my kid is the consumer.

I don't disagree with your take that it gets overused though.

[-] TommyJohnsFishSpot@lemy.lol 4 points 2 days ago

Virtue signaling, the question.

  • "Normies" as I associate people who use that word a lot to be pretentious.
  • "Lolcow" which has history of Kiwi Farm user using that word to describe someone and cyberbully as well as dox them.
  • "Chav" as I feel classist to still use that term but as someone that's both working-class and lives in a rough area in UK, it hard to not describe some people as that term as christ.. they are aggressive, homophobic and transphobic.
[-] solrize@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

unsafeCoerce

[-] Xanadu@feddit.online 0 points 1 day ago
[-] Cyphierre@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

The word ‘moist’ comes up really frequently in lists of people’s most hated words. Can you explain why? To me it seems like just any random word.

[-] Xanadu@feddit.online 1 points 1 day ago

It just has a sweaty sticky swamp water feel to it..like being on an all day float trip..

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