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[Kacho]

"I'm tired of the word slop" bros in fuckin' tatters.

After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: Slop.

The dictionary publisher defined it as "digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence," and said it reflected the "absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books" that have invaded people's social media feeds this year.

"All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again," the company said.

Other words and phrases that stood out for Merriam-Webster's editors were: Gerrymander; touch grass; performative; tariff; six seven and conclave.

Merriam-Webster names slop as its 2025 word of the year

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[jshackles]

"I'm tired of the word slop" bros in fuckin' tatters.

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Danjin44

Get in this thread!

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Merriam-Webster posting wordslop yet again.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

just proves how unoriginal and basic most people are.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

"I'm tired of the word slop" bros in fuckin' tatters.

Merriam-Webster names slop as its 2025 word of the year

The dictionary publisher's annual pick, based on spikes in search data, reflects the themes and anxieties that shaped 2025.

www.nbcnews.com

I was just thinking about how tired this word has become. Thanks Merriam-Webster for taking the slop right out of my mouth.

 

[Hookshot]

Its not the words that are annoying it's the brain dead people using them constantly.

I still remember the internets "milquetoast" phase. You couldn't avoid seeing people writing it.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Surprised it wasn't 'dIaBoLiCaL' or "dEmUrE' I see all the goofies adopting and repeating at a rapid pace.

 

[HRK69]

Pimpbaa
HRK69
Danjin44

Get in this thread!

 

[YCoCg]

With it's attachment to AI, and AI being pushed so damn hard by companies and higher ups, it was only natural this would be the word of the year. AI Slop is everywhere online right now, and it won't get better.

 

[AJUMP23]

I have basically removed it from my vocabulary, because the word has become o overused it means nothing.

 

[Danjin44]

Such meaningless and lazy way to criticize anything.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Next year it will be brainrot

 

[The Cockatrice]