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Contextually, it seems like "goated" means "excellent," which is somewhat bizarre (or "counterintuitive" as they say these days).

jatone 5y ago
goat -> greatest of all time. doesn't seem counterintuitive. its jargon most often seen in sport literature.
- Mountain_Skies 5y ago
  One of the car rental companies has started using it in their commercials. I do wonder how much of a generational divide there is on using it.
  - techdragon 5y ago
    The issue for me is it looks like an accidental autocorrect of the word “goatse” which internet users from an earlier pre-Facebook era may find more familiar than the verbifying of what was an acronym that is starting to be used as the original word but in a new adjective way.
  - 42jd 5y ago
    It’s a really commonly used among gen z. It’s used to mean it’s really good/one of the best. Eg these tacos are goated.
- saghm 5y ago
  I've definitely heard of "goat" as a noun meaning that, but "webp is such a goated format" sounds more to me like the writer thinks people try to laud it as the goat when it actually isn't. I guess it's because it sounds like the passive voice; "is goated" makes it sound like someone else is doing the goat-ing, at which point for something subjective and desired like "goat", "goating" sounds like it's being used as a more modern slang for "astroturfing" or something.
  - Dylan16807 5y ago
    > I've definitely heard of "goat" as a noun meaning that, but "webp is such a goated format" sounds more to me like the writer thinks people try to laud it as the goat when it actually isn't. Funnily enough the article kind of does that, doesn't it. WebP is a decade older than "state of the art" for this, and that difference costs a significant number of bytes.
- rapnie 5y ago
  Have not seen it in common use. I think most non-native English speakers will associate with it being an ugly format.
  - IshKebab 5y ago
    It is in common usage among gamers.
  - antifa 5y ago
    "goated" sounds like an awful thing, if they capitalized it like "GOATed" I'd at least have recognized it but still find the "ed" out of place.
- gaudat 5y ago
  Well then it should be "a goat format" instead of goated...
  - q-big 5y ago
    > Well then it should be "a goat format" instead of goated... First Google search result when I googled for 'goat format': > https://www.goatformat.com/ https://www.goatformat.com/
orev 5y ago
Same. I interpreted the title to mean it was somehow messed up or broken in some way.
speed_spread 5y ago
For me, "goat" in Internet context always maps to _that_ vintage single-image website. Definitely not something positive, more like traumatizing.
- sph 5y ago
  goat** != goat. I honestly never made the connection between the shock website and the animal.
  - FroshKiller 5y ago
    The root domain is pronounced "goat sex," although from the earliest days I'd heard of it, people were referring to it as just "goatsie" domain name goatse.
imgabe 5y ago
I'm continually amused that this has become such a common expression. The first time I remember hearing something similar was in Infinite Jest where one character was the P.G.O.A.T (Prettiest Girl Of All Time).
FR10 5y ago
Yes it basically means superb, it comes from G.O.A.T (greatest of all time) but it means it has reached the status to fight for GOAT.

jatone 5y ago

goat -> greatest of all time. doesn't seem counterintuitive. its jargon most often seen in sport literature.

Mountain_Skies 5y ago
One of the car rental companies has started using it in their commercials. I do wonder how much of a generational divide there is on using it.
- techdragon 5y ago
  The issue for me is it looks like an accidental autocorrect of the word “goatse” which internet users from an earlier pre-Facebook era may find more familiar than the verbifying of what was an acronym that is starting to be used as the original word but in a new adjective way.
- 42jd 5y ago
  It’s a really commonly used among gen z. It’s used to mean it’s really good/one of the best. Eg these tacos are goated.
saghm 5y ago
I've definitely heard of "goat" as a noun meaning that, but "webp is such a goated format" sounds more to me like the writer thinks people try to laud it as the goat when it actually isn't. I guess it's because it sounds like the passive voice; "is goated" makes it sound like someone else is doing the goat-ing, at which point for something subjective and desired like "goat", "goating" sounds like it's being used as a more modern slang for "astroturfing" or something.
- Dylan16807 5y ago
  > I've definitely heard of "goat" as a noun meaning that, but "webp is such a goated format" sounds more to me like the writer thinks people try to laud it as the goat when it actually isn't. Funnily enough the article kind of does that, doesn't it. WebP is a decade older than "state of the art" for this, and that difference costs a significant number of bytes.
rapnie 5y ago
Have not seen it in common use. I think most non-native English speakers will associate with it being an ugly format.
- IshKebab 5y ago
  It is in common usage among gamers.
- antifa 5y ago
  "goated" sounds like an awful thing, if they capitalized it like "GOATed" I'd at least have recognized it but still find the "ed" out of place.
gaudat 5y ago
Well then it should be "a goat format" instead of goated...
- q-big 5y ago
  > Well then it should be "a goat format" instead of goated... First Google search result when I googled for 'goat format': > https://www.goatformat.com/ https://www.goatformat.com/

orev 5y ago

Same. I interpreted the title to mean it was somehow messed up or broken in some way.

speed_spread 5y ago

For me, "goat" in Internet context always maps to _that_ vintage single-image website. Definitely not something positive, more like traumatizing.

sph 5y ago
goat** != goat. I honestly never made the connection between the shock website and the animal.
- FroshKiller 5y ago
  The root domain is pronounced "goat sex," although from the earliest days I'd heard of it, people were referring to it as just "goatsie" domain name goatse.

imgabe 5y ago

I'm continually amused that this has become such a common expression. The first time I remember hearing something similar was in Infinite Jest where one character was the P.G.O.A.T (Prettiest Girl Of All Time).

FR10 5y ago

Yes it basically means superb, it comes from G.O.A.T (greatest of all time) but it means it has reached the status to fight for GOAT.