Word of the Year: Enshittification
Jan. 17th, 2024 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmith2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”
The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.
The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “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,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
So that's a word that most folks need nowadays. >_<
The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting.
The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “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,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
So that's a word that most folks need nowadays. >_<
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Date: 2024-01-18 01:01 am (UTC)Hmm... I'd say the life cycle also applies to Society.
Thoughts
Date: 2024-01-18 01:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-01-18 12:09 pm (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2024-01-18 12:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-01-18 03:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2024-01-18 06:47 pm (UTC)Maybe using it wrong, but I feel like this is happing to Disney. Or at least something similar.