Mine is Consumer.
I hate that word because it is simply a word to brand anybody as lesser than in the eyes of capitalism. It makes your existence look like that is all that you’re to do, to be doing and to exist for. Just consume shit. Consume media. Consume content. Consume this and that.
The only association I would use consumption and consume in is in regards to food. Not every god damn thing else and it’s pathetic that the word has been applied to everything to the point of it being normalized.
I would prefer buyer or customer. Not Consumer.
- “Normies” as I associate people who use that word a lot to be pretentious.
- “Lolcow” which has history of Kiwi Farm user using that word to describe someone and cyberbully as well as dox them.
- “Chav” as I feel classist to still use that term but as someone that’s both working-class and lives in a rough area in UK, it hard to not describe some people as that term as christ… they are aggressive, homophobic and transphobic.
Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with ‘grifter’ at this point as most ‘influencers’ are trying to run a grift of some kind.
I would prefer buyer or customer. Not Consumer.
If I could just quickly split this hair: there is a semantic difference. The buyer or customer paid money. The consumer needn’t have. If I buy my kid a Switch 2 I’m the buyer and my kid is the consumer.
I don’t disagree with your take that it gets overused though.
Virtue signaling, the question.
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Moist
The word ‘moist’ comes up really frequently in lists of people’s most hated words. Can you explain why? To me it seems like just any random word.
