Noone under 25 votes regardless. 

I understand that China has the ability to exert some measure of influence through TikTok.

It’s not about China’s influence, it’s about privacy concerns, and for once I actually agree. Tiktok is essentially malware. There are plenty of other places for influences to influence. Most of them are on numerous platforms as it is. 

Ehh, if the past has taught us anything, it is that NONE of these social apps is all that critical. If they ban it something else will take its place just fine. Each of my kids (I have 4) has focused on a different social platform and thinks the one their older sibling uses is lame.

And for the same reason, the other…

It comes from the same people who defend billionaires and the like, and for the same reason: they would 100% do the same if given the chance.

Between this and “chuegy”, are the current generation just really bad at coining words?  They don’t exactly roll off the tongue so much as tumble down the tongue, as if pushed down stairs.  I suppose there is the consideration that these are meant to be extremely online neologisms, rarely spoken aloud.

It does seem weirdly indulgent in the same kind of masculinity-first nonsense that many of us have been trying to avoid or eliminate. But I'm sure I'll be told that it's actually feminist because it centers comic slang on the vagina.

The most annoying thing in the world right now is being in the same room as someone who is scrolling through a different TikTok video every 4.7 seconds and hearing the same three songs over inane yammering.

Yasss, insert that suffix deep into the dictionussy.

Every time I see “bussy” I think it says “Busey” and wonder if its about Jake or Gary

You read it here first, on the A.V. Clussy!

So the choices for Word of the Year were part of a word or two words...

That's fetch.

I expected no less from such a cunning linguist.

Mang, Gen Z lingo is wack, fo shizzle.

I am entirely unfamiliar with this -ussy usage.
I’m pretty sure I’m ok with that.
... Yup... just fine. 

Of course, if her employer had say, let her leave earlier since there was a state of emergency declared far earlier than evening then maybe she wouldn’t have gotten stuck in the first place.

In this case, Netflix, January 6th. Thanks AVClub.

I mean, I’ll watch it just for Gillian Anderson in a bonnet and rug-dress.

I was going to get it done, but decided the $5000 would be better spent on cake, a decision I will stand behind until I run out of cake!