I think people started using the term as a cheap dismissal before it recently morphed into such a catch all for "anyone who disagrees with me." Incedentally, t

I think people started using the term as a cheap dismissal before it recently morphed into such a catch all for "anyone who disagrees with me." Incedentally, there's a weird sort of paradox in the nature of online communication. On one hand, you have a medium where information spreads instantaneously and one could expect, given that we are all exposed to effectively the same global platform, that language might homogenize and evolve more slowly. On the other hand, it's interesting to see how internet lingo tends to shift in meaning seemingly even more quickly than IRL language. There's some deeper conclusion here somewhere regarding the nature of human language but I'm having trouble conceptualizing it.