Something that makes you annoyed as hell when it really shouldn't, or something that makes you feel like a nerd for getting annoyed at it.

I'll start with a combination of the two: When people call chiptune music "bitcrunch"

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  • casskaydee [she/her]
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    2 months ago

    I hate it when people call sketches "skits". Idk where this trend started but it feels like every time I see a clip from SNL or ITYSL, etc on Instagram or Tiktok there is some idiot in the comments saying "I love this skit". It's not a fucking skit! It's not called "skit comedy". Why does this make me so angry

      • casskaydee [she/her]
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        2 months ago

        It's hard to put into words other than a skit is something usually put together by people who aren't professional comedians, for an audience of people they know (i.e. coworkers, students at a school, fellow summer campers, etc)

    • HexBroke [any, comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      In old slang, a hot sketch (simple sketch for short) was "amusing, ridiculous person" (1909). It turns up first in descriptions of stage entertainment, and a theatrical help-wanted ad from 1906 seeks "a good hot sketch team" for "all circus and vaudeville lines."

      Skit, 1820, "piece of light satire or caricature, lampoon," from the earlier sense of "a satirical remark or reflection" (1727), which apparently is from an earlier still sense of "a light wench; a vain, frivolous, or wanton girl" (1570s, originally Scottish, now archaic).

      retvrn to tradition