The Most Overly Used Words and Phrases of 2017 (That Just Need to Die Already)

[Anonymous]

1. Fake News

Just so you are aware, not everything is fake news, but thanks to a certain president, everyone uses this to explain literally everything they hear. Rather then actually do any independent research themselves, people just throw this phrase out there every time anything pops up in their news feed, on the news, in a paper, or someone mentions something they heard. This is actually problematic because there is real news happening everyday but you have so many idiots just automatically condemning anything they hear as fake news, that it's creating a dangerous atmosphere where real news is trashed because people actually want to believe that everything and everyone is out to get them and that nothing can possibly be real any more.

2. Feminism

You spend five minutes on the internet, and you will see and hear this word used to describe anything even remotely having to do with women or women's issues. If a woman has a problem, something to say, disagrees with a man, disagrees with a woman, breathes, someone yells FEMINISM! at the top of their lungs. Most have no clue what real feminism is, and when those in the know explain it, they ignore that and just use the word ad nauseam because they think they know what they are talking about but largely they have no clue and use it more troll rather then have an actual understanding of it.

3. Special Snowflake

You could be complaining about your latest surgery that had you in so much pain, you blacked out, and someone will say, why are you complaining, you're no special snowflake. This has replaced the old phrase, "someone out there has it worse," or "everyone has problems" to try and check or shame anyone with any sort of complaint about anything. What's worse is people use it to try and suppress real issues that need to be addressed. They think by putting this stamp on the issues, that it makes them less real or important or that they shouldn't be discussed, but you really have to look into who is over using this phrase and the motives behind it.

4. No offense but...

If you have to preface something with this overused phrase, odds are, what will come after is going to offend the other person. Seriously, if you're already basically apologizing before you say something, then you probably shouldn't say it, or just say it knowing that you're probably going to ruffle some feathers.

5. F--kboi

Back in the day, we used to call these guys Tools, but here we are in 2017 and f--kboi has taken over. If you're under the age of 20, odds are you've overused this to describe just about any guy you don't really like all that much. You've probably written a whole take on it, or asked a question with it in the title. Tools...f--kboi's...they aren't going to go away. They have always existed, and I'm sure by next year, there will be a new name for them.

6. Low Key

Are you low key upset about this mytake? Are you low key mad you were five minutes late for work today. Are you low key, low key, about being low key. AHHHH! We get it. You are only ever sort of upset about things these days, but it's inconsequential to the functioning of life. If something really bothers you, just do something about it.

7. Triggered

"I'm so triggered right now. Can you talk to me as an adult, and not like I'm your child." Mental health care workers have used the terminology for years to describe events that can, for example, "trigger" one's PTSD or how depression can be "triggered" by the changing of the seasons, but now, this word has run wild in our vernacular, used to either seriously describe, or more often then not, sarcastically describe an event that makes one mad. The word itself can actually trigger someone to get pissed off which is why it has become a favorite of trolls when they want to pick a fight with someone online.

8. Lit

"This party is so lit." Used to describe just about anything good these days, everything is lit. The party, your dog, the song on the radio, a cool sign you saw that one time. Sigh...

9. Cuck

A cuck is a derogatory slang term for a weak, effeminate, or inadequate man. Cuck has also been blended with conservative to produce cuckservative, often shortened back to cuck. Both cuck and cuckservative are especially used online by white nationalists to insult US Republican politicians they judge as insufficiently conservative. The term is sometimes thrown at men (see MGTOW) whom some other men tend to think of as just bending the knee to any woman they meet or not having enough backbone and being strong enough to 'fight' against feminism and marriage.

10. I can't even

...then, um, don't.

[CubsterShura]

1) Fake news. I once saw a fact pose on Instagram and eeveryone was writing that it's fake news... I reached out to many of them to let them know that it's actually true. People are becoming so ignorant nowadays. Being ignorant, being gullible, neither are good. Do your own certification.
2) Feminism. I know right? I internally laugh when men being up feminism out of nothing. The next year you'll hear people bringing up feminism from a discussion of pizza toppings. No wonder some people say feminism is cancer. By the way, I'm a feminist myself yet believe that the word is overly cliché.
3) Special Snowflake. I heard it a lot and still never understood its meaning. .-.
4) I actually say this when I give my honest opinion but I'm afraid the person will get mad/hurt from it.
5) Fuckboiiii I use that word around my friends a lot. Otherwise when I say fuckboy I mean a fuckboy for real. New words evolve, old words are forgotten. Language develops like that and we just cannot stop it and say this word has to go. It will eventually go in the next generation even a new word will replace it.
6) I actually love this expression. I see nothing wrong with it if used the right way. Sometimes you just gotta admit your subtle feelings!
7) I mostly see trolls using it.
8 ) I see nothing wrong with it when used the right way, again. A good makeup/outfit, for example.
9) Cuck. I barely used it.
10) I can't even is also an interesting term I like to use when my brain is all tangled up so much I can't even... lol.

I don't mind certain terms in this myTake! :)

[sovetskii13]

1. Fake News: Ok, I agree. People think an article is fake when it doesn't sound right. When it's crazy or makes no sense.

2. Feminism: Modern people know what modern feminism is about. Men tell the truth about it, women refuse to admit it. Typical.

3. Special snowflake: Never understood or cared what it meant.

4. No offense but...: Yeah, I always thought that sounded funny. I think it's partially true though. There are times when you truly are trying to offend them while trying to make yourself look innocent. But there are still times when you just want to state your opinion without offending them. You know that it offends them, but it's not what you're trying to do. You just can't think of a different way to state your point.

5. Fuckboy: Is that a synomym for players, pickup artists, and maybe even bad boys?

6. Low key: Never seen that actually.

7. Triggered: The word and definition do go together. Something turns a switch or a trigger on and off. It's used in physics and programming.

8. Lit: Never seen that as a trend either.

9. Cuck: I've only seen "Cuckhold". Sounds like a really weird word to me.

I can't even...: Eh, I don't see the problem. with it. Just a way to extend your sentence or point. It is pretty useless though.

[EnglishArtsteacher]

1. The only time I hear people legitimately use this phrase is from Donald Trump, and his supporters. I do agree there IS fake news, but I never go around shouting "fake news" at every single thing I hear.

2. I completely agree here. I also see this as a major issue on this website.

3. This term has been used for about the past five years now. I do think there are too many wimpy people, but it gets old hearing "snowflake!" all of the time. I agree here.

4. This phrase is long overdue to be banned at this point. However, the only reason so many people say it is because of how easily "offended" everyone gets these days.

5. THANK YOU! I don't understand where this term came from, or why they decided to put the "F" word before "boy." None of it makes any sense, and as someone who has taught in high schools, I heard it ALL THE TIME.

6. This is another one I commonly hear among teenagers. I guess it means people who are subtly angry?

7. I was hoping this was going to be on the list. I'm so sick of this word being used, when it was originally used for psychological reasons, when someone is ACTUALLY traumatized by something.

8. I agree, it was used when it actually meant something fun. Now, teenagers use it for every single thing.

9. Nobody I know uses the word "cuck", at least here in this region of the United States of America.

10. The only people I know who use this are Caucasian girls.

I like this list!

[I-am-a-nobody]

On "Fake News", the problems isn't a certain president, the problem is a bunch of news outlets that:
1) Take things out of context
2) Exaggerate
AND
3) Outright lie.
I think a lot of it started when Dan Rather told as "news" something that was made up (about George W Bush). He could have checked the story, but he didn't like Bush, so the "news" came out. Later on, Rather was disgraced to the glee of everyone who cares about the truth.

It gets to the point where you don't really believe any of them. I pretty much guess that the truth lies somewhere between FOX and the raging liberals, but there's no telling the truth unless you go to the quoted, in context, source.

[myTake Owner]

A certain president has created the frenzy around fake news claiming real news is fake news... well... it's been a long 48 hours hasn't it...

Don't get me wrong... fake news needs to be stopped... but when you have someone on one hand saying this is fake news, and then putting up unsourced video clips and saying it doesn't matter if it's real or not... THAT IS A PROBLEM... a major one... and many fail to see the reality in that or the irony in that.

There is real news out there, but if at every turn someone is so quick and idiotic enough to say it's fake without spending a second to find a source or verify any of the information or discredit it as actually being fake based on fact, not the internet told me or the president said so it must be true... then yes, "fake news" needs to die already.

[I-am-a-nobody]

If there weren't so much actual fake news, then Trump wouldn't be able to label real news as fake. But people have seen so many lies from supposedly good sources (see Dan Rather), that they just give up on them.

So now, the hearer of the news has to find a good source (which is hard these days) to verify whether what they're hearing is propaganda or the truth.
Kinda makes all the "news sources" (i. e. CNN, AP, NYT, WP and Fox) less useful, doesn't it?

Honestly, I've seen headlines that say just the opposite of what is quoted by the sources and statistics in an actual story. I've lived 56 years and I've never seen such propaganda as I've seen in the last 10 years.

[freakyzeaky]

Tool and fuckboy have different meanings, at least I think so. A tool is a person who doesn't have any opinions or thoughts of their own, usually follows trends in the attempt to be accepted, parrots ideas rather than having their own take. A tool is basically a conformist.

Fuckboy, on the other hand, has two meanings. The original came from Cam'ron and the Dipset, and is just used to describe lame, wimpy, and pussified men. The more modern interpretation, which many white people use, is that of a womanizer who is open about only wanting casual sex and nothing more. This is different than a player who uses manipulation tactics to trick women into thinking he wants commitment but really just wants to "pump and dump". Fuckboys a different in that they are upfront about their desires. Fuckboys are basically man-whores.

[redeyemindtricks]

"The original came from Cam'ron and the Dipset"

😂😂 Dudeeeeee

"Fuck boy" — in its original meaning, namely, "a dude who takes it in the ass" — has been part of black American slang since the '70's... possibly even a decade or two earlier. It was in wide circulation among putative badasses of all races when I was in high school (class of '93).

("Punk", once upon a time, meant the same thing. That one goes all the way back to the Jazz Age.)

[freakyzeaky]

@redeyemindtricks It didn't come into the modern lexicon until Cam made it big though. I don't recall it ever being used at my high school, but it did start to really pop off when the slang was utilized in Hip-hop culture.

[redeyemindtricks]

Interesting

[freakyzeaky]

@redeyemindtricks Yeah, basically calling a dude a "fuckboy" is like calling him a "bitch". Same connotations.

https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/fuckboy

[freakyzeaky]

At least in Hip-hop culture.

[redeyemindtricks]

ahah... my high school (Poly, Long Beach) WAS hip-hop culture back then, boy. Snoop, Warren, Daz, 213, you name it.
(Also the biggest high school in the US — my graduating class alone was about 1400 strong)

If you’re posting for the general audience, then, fine... but you aren’t gna have a lot to teach me on that subject😂

[Anonymous]

Cuck is actually short for cuckold/cuckqean

It means someone who is the partner of a cheater. It's derogatory becuase it implies a mans girlfriend/wife fucks other guys instead of the husband/boyfriend because they're too inadequate sexually for the woman.(it's usually used against men and not usually women even though there is a female version of it).

It's used because being a cuck is the ultimate form of being a beta in a macho persons mind. Cucksertavie is just some made up thing that people are attaching cuck too.

Personally, I find it hilarious. I make jokes about it all the time usually in puns like "cucked and loaded" "the beauty and the cuck" "the last of the cuckicans"

[Anonymous]

Problematic. I hear this used to describe me a lot at college by white liberals because I'm a black conservative and don't agree with their views but they can't call me racist or sexist to dismiss my opinions like they do with white conservatives. Uncle Tom is another one.

[COCOCHANEL]

i know what you mean

[RidingForever2]

Totally not a biased mytake at all...

"Cuck" Actually comes from the Cuckoo bird who lays its eggs in a next of another bird so they raise the offspring as one of their own.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I think many of these are way before 2017?
Another one that I think also recently became popular (2014, 2015?) is the "XX is key". I hate that expression, way overused.

[Anonymous]

Here's one that needs to go: "Hey, Trump, die already!"
Hey, snowflakes and liberals, get used to the fact, he won!!!

[Chrysis]

I haven't even heard of half of these, but the rest sounds about right.

[Pink2000]

My favorite is
Don't even
I can not
Lit
And Clout

[DesiBeautyLover]

11. Impeach Trump
12. Racism
13. Transgender
14. The Russians did it

[Volvagia]

no offense BUT
this mytake is fake news, I am low key triggered rn like I can't even

[WTFliberals]

Its all great !!!
And directed to liberals... lol

[Coconut_Man]

Only because you used a pic of diplo I'm gonna like your Take 😊

[Happyme2017]

you forgot
Fucking A man, pass the bowl man.

[Kuraj]

But a lot of these phrases are totally bae.

[admles]

Brilliant take, ESPECIALLY #5.

[COCOCHANEL]

nice list

[Anonymous]

agree