American Dialect Society 2025 Word of the Year Is "Slop"

Another new term - sloperator.

Where some of the other big WOTY selections ended up:

Oxford 'rage bait' https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i...

Collins 'vibe coding' https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w...

Cambridge 'parasocial' https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-di...

Dictionary.com '67' https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/

Merriam-Webster 'slop' https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year

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> The word slop was recognized for its widespread use for low-quality, high-quantity content, most typically produced by generative AI. While AI slop was a nominee in the American Dialect Society’s 2024 Word of the Year vote, in 2025 slop could stand on its own,

I'm not sure if it matters, but the term AI Slop started on 4chan, probably on /g/, derived from the ubiquitous 4chan "goyslop" meme (used to describe ultraprocessed food). Seeing "normies" casually throwing it around, completely unaware of its etymology is... interesting. Likewise interesting is how this article retconned its etymology, to omit any mention of its true inspiration. (Maybe because the term has gone mainstream?)