"R U TRIGGERED" and all its subvariants were radioactive toxic waste and turned a valid and important psychological concept into bullying vector that for a time had nearly universal acceptance.

I still see vestiges of "le epic bacon" out there but it's mostly confined to aging :grillman: types and some :up-yours-woke-moralists: cultists and a few contrarian carninist edgelords that want to "trigger the vegans." Yes I know all of the above have a lot of overlap.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    2 years ago

    I admit that I use it too sometimes, and for probably the same reasons most who use it do: it's so absurd and vapid a statement that it's just a way to dress up "I am frustrated with how things are going in general."

    • keepcarrot [she/her]
      ·
      2 years ago

      I thought it was the opposite of Thatcher's "There's no such thing as a society, there are individuals and there are families" or some such nonsense

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
        hexagon
        ·
        2 years ago

        That'd be a good thing in that case; it'd mean people saying "fuck you, Thatcher. We aren't isolated consumer units in a vacuum, we have to function together somehow."