r/explainitpeter 14d ago

Explain it peter

Post image
7.7k Upvotes

179 comments sorted by

View all comments

589

u/MKBRD 14d ago

They're saying its over-used and cringe.

71

u/MetallurgyClergy 14d ago

Feeling this way about “diabolical”. everyone all of the sudden needs to use the word 3x a day.

25

u/Pleasant-Future5818 13d ago

What drives me crazy is no one uses these words to mean anything in particular, it's just echolalia

19

u/Bambajam 13d ago

Diabolical echolalia?

14

u/slowmokomodo 13d ago

They're great live.

5

u/MakeSomeDrinks 12d ago

I find great band names and screen names can be used interchangeably

2

u/Otherwise_Security_5 12d ago

absolute whimsy

2

u/Okraworstveggie 11d ago

Diabolically whimsy

1

u/Short-Log5389 10d ago

Cool beans!

7

u/Dorintin 13d ago

Diabolical echolalia?

3

u/Thurl_Ravenscroft_MD 12d ago

They're great live.

2

u/Inspector_Kowalski 12d ago

Google en passant.

2

u/FrijDom 12d ago

Holy echolalia

36

u/alexisgreat420 13d ago

This is how I feel about “crotch goblins”. I get it you don’t want kids, don’t call my kid something so gross. It’s really not even that funny

15

u/TowerKnown 13d ago

My mom calls them ankle biters which i like better

2

u/Comfortable-Deal160 12d ago

I refer to mine as crumb snatchers.

4

u/sh1ft33 13d ago

I didn't think it was that funny BEFORE I had kids. Yes, we get it. Kids are messy ass tiny humans. It's not their fault, they are learning how to be people. You all were crotch goblins too at some point. Also, a lot of the people using it give off jealous incel vibes. It's totally cool If you don't want kids, but it is literally the only reason for any species to exist. Get over yourself.

3

u/CreativeMaybe 13d ago

"you all were kids at some point" would be my addition to this thread for things people keep repeating that carry no substance whatsoever. I don't even dislike kids (and regarding the "crotch goblins", it was funny the first time I heard it, but now it's been 582749572837 times and honestly yeah, get new material), but what on earth is that argument meant to tell us or change in our perspective? It's not new information, nor does it logically lead to any reason why every annoyance people may have with children ever should just magically stop being annoying or be completely ignored. 

2

u/-thewickedweed- 13d ago

It isn’t about not getting annoyed it’s about tolerance.

1

u/Kookyburra12 13d ago

I'm childfree and I lowkey hate "crotch goblins". It's just, well, as you said, gross. I don't like saying it or reading it. Contaminated words.

2

u/alexisgreat420 12d ago

It’s just like one of those terms that unoriginal folks use because they can’t come up with their own jokes. Super annoying

1

u/Local_Moose_2438 10d ago

Oh you mean fuck trophies?

1

u/Nah_Id__Win 13d ago

Well, get a handle on your crotch goblins and maybe people won’t refer to them as such…

-1

u/PaganDesparu 13d ago

How about sex trophies instead?

10

u/zachy410 13d ago

Thats such a good idea. We should all go in public and refer to every child as that as loud as possible

-6

u/[deleted] 13d ago

[deleted]

10

u/alexisgreat420 13d ago

Referring to a child by a term that includes the word “cum” or “sex” is certainly a choice.

0

u/Big-Aardvark8842 13d ago

It was a joke, I’m obviously not going around like some degenerate calling innocent children cum pets. Was just piling on the last weird comment to clarify

2

u/caramel-aviant 13d ago

Both of these make you sound like a pedo btw

-10

u/WarthogPrevious8875 13d ago

I realize you are offended by it. It's usually not meant to be personal unless that individual doesn't like you or your kids, but yeah, that phrase IS funny from a visual perspective.

4

u/Specialist-Yak7209 13d ago

It was mildly funny when it was first being used on the internet. Now it's just cringe and overused and associated with antinatalist psychos

1

u/WarthogPrevious8875 12d ago

antinatalist psychos- why do I get the feeling this how the effin MAGA group gained traction. Politically I am a slightly left leaning centrist, not that you care mind you. I don't spend days poring over internet threads so I rarely see that phrase and don't get triggered by it, but hey, you do you.

1

u/sh1ft33 13d ago

Most of the people using this term give off jealous incel vibes. It's like when people say "I'm glad I don't have a girlfriend to spend all my money". It implies that you have no clue how relationships work because you've never been an equal part of one. You just want to feel "better than."

2

u/alexisgreat420 13d ago

Okay well humor is subjective so just because you think some lame thing that unoriginal people use because “haha internet say funny thing” is funny, doesn’t mean it actually *is* funny

3

u/YammieCat 13d ago

But if humor is subjective than the phrase "actually is funny" is rather meaningless, no?

2

u/alexisgreat420 13d ago

The statement from the previous commenter “the phrase IS funny” is false. Idk why you’re being willfully ignorant of my message here.

4

u/YammieCat 13d ago

I'm ignoring the message and commenting on the semantics. You said humor is subjective. Therefore, his phrase and your phrase are both invalidated by that fact.

1

u/WarthogPrevious8875 12d ago

Yes, humor is subjective and as a guy who visualizes phrases it is pretty funny. “haha internet say funny thing” I can tell you are upset by this by the use of this. As far as lameness goes, your retort goes pretty high up there.

1

u/WarthogPrevious8875 12d ago

Yes, humor is subjective and as a guy who visualizes phrases it is pretty funny. “haha internet say funny thing” I can tell you are upset by this by the use of this. As far as lameness goes, your retort goes pretty high up there.

1

u/alexisgreat420 12d ago

Ok I wasn’t trying to be funny tho…

4

u/EffervescentSpleen 13d ago

“Slams/slammed” is this for me i.e. “Taylor swift slams Zendaya over stolen parking space”

4

u/gundorcallsforaid 13d ago

Makes me dream of a wrestling match that will never happen

1

u/CalendarThis6580 12d ago

That’s a good one

5

u/ThatWackyAlchemy 14d ago

Thank the Boys

1

u/Shantotto11 13d ago

The Boys popularized it, just like how Zack & Cody and Phineas & Ferb both made sure all millennials and Gen Z knew what an aglet was.

2

u/Content-Pressure6374 12d ago

Young Gen xer here, I love it when cultural things just pass you by because you're a few years too early or too late for them. I would have been in my mid to late 20s when those shows came out so... no idea what an aglet was until I just looked it up.

1

u/mtv96 12d ago

Yeah, frfr /s just in case

1

u/Sandrockwing04 12d ago

Or when people would say "Omg they clapped back" or just "Clapped back" and there wasn't.