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An interesting generational battle- I'm surprised to see slop made the shortlist, I believe it came from a term popularized on 4chan

• itishappy 2y ago
  You sniped me. The internet seems to agree with you that the current usage of "slop" was popularized on 4chan in 2022, but it's been around way longer. I've always known slop as the food scraps served to pigs.
  • Gigachad 2y ago
    It’s kind of the same usage. Calling something “AI slop” is describing it like food scraps for pigs. Cheap, distasteful, mass produced.
    • itishappy 2y ago
      Also backlash in motors and gears. Imprecise engineering. I'm liking the word "slop" more and more!
      • duskwuff 2y ago
        As someone on Mastodon observed [1], it's also got all sorts of great resonances with words like "slime", "sleaze", "sludge", "slug", "slither", "slouch", etc. The word itself implies a distasteful, slippery (another sl- word!) nature. [1]: https://transmom.love/@elilla/113578996568287769 https://transmom.love/@elilla/113578996568287769
• blueflow 2y ago
  Current youth culture is massively influenced by imageboard culture.