#wordoftheyear2023 — Public Fediverse posts

The American Dialect Society, selected #enshittification as the #WordoftheYear2023.

"The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow:
“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification."

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

Cambridge Dictionaries’ Word of the Year is **hallucinate** with a new meaning: “when an artificial intelligence hallucinates, it produces false information.“

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/woty

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The Dictionary.com Word of the Year is **hallucinate** with a new meaning: “(of artificial intelligence) to produce false information contrary to the intent of the user and present it as if true and factual.“

Other contenders were strike, rizz, wokeism, indicted, wildfire,

Dictionary.com also chose a Vibe of the Year: eras.

https://content.dictionary.com/word-of-the-year-2023/

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Oxford's Word of the Year for 2023 is **rizz**. “Use of the word … increased dramatically … with a peak in June 2023, when actor Tom Holland was asked … about his ‘rizz’, to which he answered, ‘I have no rizz whatsoever, I have limited rizz.’”

Other contenders were prompt, situationship, Swiftie, beige flag, de-influencing, heat dome, and parasocial.

https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2023/

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Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2023 is **authentic** which saw a substantial increase in lookups driven by conversations about AI, celebrity culture, identity, and social media. Other contenders were rizz, deepfake, coronation, EGOT, X, implode, doppelgänger, covenant, indict, elemental, kibbutz, and deadname.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year

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end-of-life doula
A non-medical helper who provides support and guidance for a dying person and their family

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pretendian
To Native Americans, someone who falsely claims Indigenous identity. A form of cultural appropriation

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noctalgia
Literally, "sky grief", or sadness at the loss of dark skies on the part of earth-based astronomers, as the prevalence of light pollution increases

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the tism
A lighthearted and positive way for autistic people to refer to their autism. Best used within the community. Also "a touch of the tism"

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-tober (combining form)
Any of a number of efforts to help create inspiration for authors, artists, and so on, by creating daily prompts. Examples: fictober, inktober, kinktober

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buggagedon
The plague of bedbugs afflicting Paris and other French cities

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whom of which
A syntactically interesting and well-attested item in English usage: "Our striker, whom of which is our best player, scores a lot of goals."

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jamais vu
The unsettling feeling that something familiar HASN'T been experienced before. The opposite of déjà vu

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hypertourism
The overwhelming concentration of tourists in renowned cities and sites during specific times, potentially harming monuments, the environment, and disrupting local life

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spicy
Sexy, controversial, or interesting, as a spicy take. Also seen in neurospicy. (Spicy food is not referred to as spicy, but instead angry)

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pink cockatoo
Bird societies around the world are working to rename birds (including the pink cockatoo) to be more representative of their appearance or origin, not the names of (often disappointing) humans

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engagement farming
Gaming the social media attention economy for attention and clicks, but not adding value. Includes making inflammatory posts, constant low-value polls, and so on

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enshittification
The process of online platforms becoming worse, either in content or user experience. Also known as platform decay. Coined by Cory Doctorow

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angertainment
News stories intended to get engagement by fomenting a sense of outrage in the audience. An example of combining form -tainment

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tradwife
At base, a woman who adopts a more traditional role as mother and homemaker. More concerningly, the tradwife movement involves toxic femininity, internalised sexism, and is a gateway to ultraconservative politics and white nationalism.

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Bharat
A historical name for India, promoted by PM Narendra Modi. Ostensibly used to undo colonial injustice; likely also to promote the Hindi language as a cultural force at the expense of other languages and groups

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-ngus (productive suffix)
Suggestive of largeness in size or extent. Examples: chungus, scrungus, "You fool, you blongus, you absolute utter clampongus"

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hurriquake
A hurricane and an earthquake co-occurring, which is totally a thing that happened in California in 2023, because this timeline

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IJBOL
Internet acronym: “I just burst out laughing”

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pipeline
A well-known path, describing a person's social or political transformation. Originally used in "school-to-prison pipeline"; more recently "crunchy-to-conspiracy pipeline" and "edgelord-to-fash pipeline"

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trauma dump
Oversharing difficult thoughts or emotions, often (but not always) in a way that leaves others stressed out.

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skeet
A post on social network Bluesky, a combination of sky + tweet

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blue tick (person)
Someone who has paid for a subscription to Twitter. Blue ticks were once a marker of official status for an account; now it seems to more commonly mean: oh no, that sort of person. See also: eight-buck chucklefuck

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-lulu
Used in delulu, a cutesy abbreviation for delusion (often meaning "unjustified confidence"). This may be extending to other words (eg solulu, or solution).

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kanekalon
A synthetic fibre used as artificial hair

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