u can see the decline in literacy through this
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@PopCraveOct 27
.@Dictionarycom’s Words of the Year over the last decade: 2026: Maxxing 2025: 67 2024: Demure 2023: Hallucinate 2022: Woman 2021: Allyship 2020: Pandemic 2019: Existential 2018: Misinformation 2017: Complicit 2016: Xenophobia

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notice the decline ever since trump got into office.
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going from existential in 2019 to 67 in 2025 is honestly the most accurate summary of the decade
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Which year was entanglement
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Especially after Covid lol
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2016 was peak and it’s been downhill since
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It starts in 2022
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the dictionary is fighting for its life trying to keep up with us
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It is sad to see. Surprised AI wasn't the word this year
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honestly maxxing and 67 making the cut is exactly what we were trying to do
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You can definitely see the shift from the wokening in 2016-2022 to complete brainrot here
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Honestly the people pushing those words during Trump’s first term are probably dumber than the broccoli heads doing the 67 thing
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TRULY!
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You can see the decline the more DIVERSE we get in The West.
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Maxxing and 67 making the list is the job
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Ronald Reagan would be so proud, just straight laughing in our faces.
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Image from tila tequila fan ✹ (@vyvansefangirl)
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especially considering that one of the 'words of the year' is a number 😭
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covid dealt a massive blow to people’s brains
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Not a single word here indicates literacy level it's just buzzwords
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I think it also shows the change in the audience that Dictionary.com is trying to reach
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Judging the intelligence of the population through what kids find funny/entertaining is the dumbest shit in the world.
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2023 was the last sane year
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how tf did we go from xenophobia to 67
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the last word of the year that isn’t meme related was 3 years ago
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67 ISNT A FUCKING WORD
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Straight nosedive after 2024 man wtf.
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But they weren’t always tracking slang. 1999 would have been Nookie.
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And the sociocultural shift to conservatism
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This is exactly what they want with all this memetic warfare bullshit
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“Words of the Year” and one of them’s a number
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Decline in literacy + tiktokification of peoples’ linguistic behaviors is such a devastating combo
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regressionmaxxing
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i need everyone to stop speaking like #them idc if its ironic its not funny
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I thought demure was switching us back
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Solipsism should be it @Dictionarycom for 2026
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The last three years is just streamer word slop 😭
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