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Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nobs’ to ‘le dollar bean’
Taylor Lorenzwashingtonpost.comTeen Subcultures Are Fading. Pity the Poor Kids.
https://www.nytimes.com/by/mireille-silcoffnytimes.comAs we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in... See more