Another great example of this is when companies advertise they are hiring "Rockstars". Name your fav examples of words that have lost their meaning.

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        lmao i have been single for literal years, and i never allow anyone into my house without having cleaned the place thoroughly. Apparently i've been doing it wrong.

        • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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          2 years ago

          I mean, I've had people over with some unfolded laundry out or some dishes soaking in the sink

          Which I guess is the difference between Goblin mode and being Mr. Clean I suppose

    • mittens [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      It doesn't mean anything, Juniper made a fake headline that stated (paraphrasing) "Julia Fox opened up about her relationship with Kanye: He didn't like it when I went 'goblin mode'" (the joke is that the reader is left hanging about what going goblin mode on Kanye even means), and it shoot up from there. Baffles me that it latched on, but I guess people intuit it means "slovenly" I suppose.