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In my experience, yeah tiktok addicts are like this...
...but so are tumblr addicts.
They just have a more esoteric/niche set of triggering conditioms, as well as a more esoteric/niche vocabulary used when emphatically proclaiming something hysterical, and they're also angry that you have 0 clue what 90% of the terms or events or people or characters they're referring to are.
This is so true, it has been really sad watching people I care about get sucked into this cycle of anti accountability for their actions and behaviors, and then sabotage all of their relationships in a vicious cycle of misunderstanding and anger.
Since when is vague a verb?
"Edit" and "access" also weren't originally verbs. Same with "babysit" and "eavesdrop". Backformation and category changing are common and perfectly natural processes in English.
Edit: This isn't directed at the OP of this comment chain, but I'm always surprised by the crazy amount of ignorant prescriptivism I see all over Lemmy. Like, I expected that shit on Reddit, but I thought we were better than that here, especially since literally the only real reason for prescriptivism is sowing class division and excluding people for not having access to the secret knowledge of "correct" (yuck!) grammar.
I understand language changes over time but sometimes it's stupider than others
Keep complaining and it's going to be a noun next
'vagueing abt me being ableist'
'implying i was ableist'
There, translated.
Oh look, proper english is more direct and succinct!
Guess the tumblr user likes vagueing as well.
Thank you. I'm so sick of people jumping on 'oh language changes over time' when others are just using words wrong.
I'd say it isn't wrong, per se; english, especially american english has a long history of 'verbing' nouns...
... But at least in this case, it is less precise and more cumbersome than not using slang.
That and of course, if you've never seen or heard it used this way, it is confusing.
So... not wrong... but not useful, concise, or efficient.
You could use a verb that just directly connects the subject to the object, but when you take an adjective and 'verbify' it, now you have to construct a phrase to do that... and it still results in a more passive voicing.
Its only more succinct if the sentence has no specified object, no thing that the verb is acting on.
I'm vagueing.
You're vagueing.
They're vagueing.
...etc.
I mean you're half right. If enough people start using it wrong then it becomes a legitimate thing. It's kind of like our currency system.
Verbing weirds language.
Since we've all had to rework any word referencing Twitter for obvious reasons, I suppose.
"Posting" is fine, all the dumb "toots" and "skeets" are not. If you're trying to salvage "vaguetweeting" I suppose that is a semi-reasonable outcome. I don't think it works quite as well for subtweeting, though.
What about using the word "tweet" to refer to a post in any microblogging platform
I could live with that, but... I mean, "post" is right there. And with the lines blending over time between "microblogging", this more forum-like pseudo-reddit thing, Instagram-style image-centered posts... I just don't know that the per-platform distinction is worth it anymore, with or without the Twitter nonsense.
I don't know what a vaguetweet is either, but that's fucking gross too
What the hell is vaguetweeting though?
Vagueposting istthe replacement word. It means posting about someone or a situational without being precise about the person or event
Like. ... "Wishing some people would mind their own business". Or "Life can be really hard sometimes, but you've got to push through". With no context, or explanation. Basically seeking attention or sympathy.
Kinda like that yes, but often a bit more specific to a situation, like the example the OP mentioned "an ableist tried to make small talk about the weather" etc.
Half the time it isn't even that clear what they are posting about.
That's jus tweeting in general.
Also, I realize the resulting confusion means this was technically "vaguing"/vagueposting itself. Recursion!
The fuck is nicebombing? Searching it online just returns about 2 different terror attacks in France l0l
It's a made-up thing for this post
I think it’s most likely meant to be a take on “lovebombing” which is a phrase used to refer to cults and unhealthy relationships