I am watching a lot of youtube these days, a lot more than usual for obvious reasons. Already three times today I have heard someone announce"Chef’s kiss" instead of just doing the damn thing. Nobody was ever confused by the kissing the fingers motion. We don’t need your stupid damn narration of the event.
Stop this asinine thing now.
Mine is “satisfying.” I live with a kid whose new favorite thing is YouTube videos of people making and playing with slime. She calls them “satisfying videos” and, indeed, the WHOLE TIME, the chick in the video keeps saying “OMG this is sooooooo satisfying!” “Ooh, this is gonna be satisfying!” So… no mystery as to where the kid picked that one up.
I’ve watched “satisfying videos” before (although not sought them out) - things like someone power-washing something that comes perfectly clean in one stroke or making pottery or icing cookies or doing calligraphy. But they’re always set to some royalty-free music with no words and no whiny-voices YouTuber who is an adult woman dressed like a child going “oh my god you guyyyyyysssss this is so satisfyingggg!!”
I’m starting to understand how old people used to feel about “awkward” and “random” when I was a kid.
But they were probably still called ‘20 minutes of satisfying videos’ or ‘satisfying vines’ or ‘oddly satisfying’ so you still don’t get away from it.
Also, I really hate that bizarre youtube music.
I don’t like the trend in commercials saying things like, two times as much or two times less. Just say twice or half.
I’m sick of “reach out”. Especially when robocallers reach out to me.
Yeah, the past four or five years, in office lingo, “reach out to” seems to have taken the place of “contact” or “ask” or similar phrases. “I’ll reach out to soandso to find out how he thinks this plan would affect his branch.” Just fuckin’ ask him.
It used to be a phrase with emotional overtones - to reach out to someone going through a difficult stretch, or something like that. Now it’s just another stupid business phrase.
Anyone heard this one? Working for a government agency, business-speak is slow to trickle in, but my relatively new boss came from the private sector. He will “jump on” a call.
It might make sense if he was breaking off of something else to join the call in midstream, but no. If it’s been on everybody’s calendar for days, and nobody had any meeting right before, he’ll still thank us for ‘jumping on’ the call.
Very weird.
Here’s mine…“the feels”.
OMG how I hate hearing that. “When I saw his picture, I got the feels.”
UGH