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"brutally dunked on Cellebrite" why is this phrase showing up in so many news articles now? It's an old phrase, but I swear I've seen it on the titles of hacker

"brutally dunked on Cellebrite" why is this phrase showing up in so many news articles now? It's an old phrase, but I swear I've seen it on the titles of hacker news articles like 10 times last week. Such a annoying phrase, at that. It makes everything sound like it was just a witty comeback on twitter.

Beaver117 6y ago
On a similar note, it seems a lot of media articles copy and paste the same dumb phrases. Search any trending news and half of them are quoting the same exact thing in the title, maybe only one or two bother to throw in a synonym.
harry8 6y ago
Largely unsubstantiated hypothesis: Did you see "The Last Dance?" Popular lockdown fare made the Michael Jordan hagiography more prominent that it would otherwise have been. Scotty Pippen v Patrick Ewing [1] suddenly became more prominent in the minds of many. We were lacking excitement and drama in our lives. Social media was full of this. Lazy writing follows the zeitgeist. Brutal, disrespectful dunking became more of a thing again... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOUpybXmzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOUpybXmzo
- murderfs 6y ago
  I think this one actually escaped from video games, specifically this video from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ
  - frombody 6y ago
    After a snickers commercial in 2009 the phrase became repeated and popularized by the general public https://youtube.com/watch?v=qarH-PTKulQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=qarH-PTKulQ
  - harry8 6y ago
    Yeah I'm sure that the jordan biopic wasn't the source. I am suggesting it's a reason why an agressive basketball metaphor has regained popularity of late. Could be very wrong, of course.
austhrow743 6y ago
Must have been a tough choice for the author between that and "slammed".
- auiya 6y ago
  "Cellebrite got bodied, yo"
sen 6y ago
I notice this a lot in journalism in general, and I assume it’s mostly a case of “journalist A uses a phrase, other journalists read it and like it so decide to use it in their next article”.
- smcl 6y ago
  A great example of this is the word "refusenik". Originally a term used to refer to those refused permission to emigrate from the USSR, but weirdly the British press began using it to mean "someone who doesn't want to do something". That is basically what that word means now in English, you'd probably struggle to find someone using it who knows the original meaning.
- rapsey 6y ago
  The tech world does that a lot. Suddenly every developer is a poylglot and every framework is opinionated.
  - caf 6y ago
    Cliches considered harmful.
katbyte 6y ago
Words enter and leave common use all the time, lately I’ve also heard dunked a lot and it stood out to me too. Just accepted it as a new term people are using. Another recent one is oooof

Beaver117 6y ago

On a similar note, it seems a lot of media articles copy and paste the same dumb phrases. Search any trending news and half of them are quoting the same exact thing in the title, maybe only one or two bother to throw in a synonym.

harry8 6y ago

Largely unsubstantiated hypothesis: Did you see "The Last Dance?" Popular lockdown fare made the Michael Jordan hagiography more prominent that it would otherwise have been. Scotty Pippen v Patrick Ewing [1] suddenly became more prominent in the minds of many. We were lacking excitement and drama in our lives. Social media was full of this. Lazy writing follows the zeitgeist. Brutal, disrespectful dunking became more of a thing again... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOUpybXmzo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtOUpybXmzo

murderfs 6y ago
I think this one actually escaped from video games, specifically this video from 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-fIOrUTIOQ
- frombody 6y ago
  After a snickers commercial in 2009 the phrase became repeated and popularized by the general public https://youtube.com/watch?v=qarH-PTKulQ https://youtube.com/watch?v=qarH-PTKulQ
- harry8 6y ago
  Yeah I'm sure that the jordan biopic wasn't the source. I am suggesting it's a reason why an agressive basketball metaphor has regained popularity of late. Could be very wrong, of course.

austhrow743 6y ago

Must have been a tough choice for the author between that and "slammed".

auiya 6y ago
"Cellebrite got bodied, yo"

sen 6y ago

I notice this a lot in journalism in general, and I assume it’s mostly a case of “journalist A uses a phrase, other journalists read it and like it so decide to use it in their next article”.

smcl 6y ago
A great example of this is the word "refusenik". Originally a term used to refer to those refused permission to emigrate from the USSR, but weirdly the British press began using it to mean "someone who doesn't want to do something". That is basically what that word means now in English, you'd probably struggle to find someone using it who knows the original meaning.
rapsey 6y ago
The tech world does that a lot. Suddenly every developer is a poylglot and every framework is opinionated.
- caf 6y ago
  Cliches considered harmful.

katbyte 6y ago

Words enter and leave common use all the time, lately I’ve also heard dunked a lot and it stood out to me too. Just accepted it as a new term people are using. Another recent one is oooof