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Slow_Handyesterday at 9:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Nice word.

I rue the day the IG reels crowd pick up on it and it becomes the "word du jour" that gets overused to the point of being intolerable. Right up there with "narcissist" and "gaslighting".


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Terr_today at 12:16 AM

The problem isn't so much overuse as misuse, as "gaslighting" gets thrown around for almost any kind of falsehood.

Another example would be "Ponzi scheme", which I've seen abused for any situation the speakers seems unsustainable, even when there isn't any records fraud.