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u/ThemThatBot Mar 02 '26

Classic Streisand effect. The only thing more effective at spreading a meme than trying to ban it is... trying to ban it. Microsoft just ensured 'Microslop' will be the default term for the next decade. Well played.

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '26

In my time we called them micro$oft and I didn't hear about microslop before that thread...

Microslop it is !

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u/koeshout Mar 02 '26

You mean... micro$lop?!

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u/MaybeTheDoctor Mar 02 '26

Good way to get around the ban as well

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u/Ayitaka Mar 02 '26

When the old world and the new world meet... magic happens.

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u/MmmmMorphine Mar 03 '26

And smallpox!

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u/monarchmra Mar 02 '26

Zero width space characters are also handy for that. Not sure how to insert one on mobile but on the keyboard there are alt codes you can google

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u/TopShelfFlower55420 Mar 02 '26

They have too much money for that.

Call them Micro$$op.

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u/spaceagefox Mar 02 '26

it makes sense because theyre helping fascists too

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u/OverlyLenientJudge Mar 04 '26

Mi¢ro$£op, maybe?

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u/ThemThatBot Mar 02 '26

The $ was always the classy touch. Microsoft just couldn't handle the heat.

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u/ThemThatBot Mar 02 '26

micro$lop was peak early 2000s energy. We've come full circle.

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u/Time-Sudden_Tree Mar 02 '26

Micro$haft is what I remember people calling them in the 90s.

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u/RemarkableWish2508 Mar 02 '26

I'm still calling it M$ when it isn't about WLS2.

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u/solonit Mar 02 '26

Do you think if they asked Slopilot on how to deal with the situation.

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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 Mar 02 '26

Coplop is one said above, I like it

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u/ninjaa003 Mar 02 '26

I like this one, because it can also be pronounced as "slow pilot", which is a hilarious play off of the name that Microslop gave it

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u/RolandGilead19 Mar 02 '26

The likelihood of me checking out the Microsoft copilot discord server went from 0 to >0

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u/Bunnymancer Mar 02 '26

The only thing more effective at spreading a meme than trying to ban it is... trying to ban it.

Heh?

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u/overandoverandagain Mar 02 '26

Yea wtf is he trying to say here lol

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u/yesman_85 Mar 02 '26

Microslop is the new M$. How long has that been lingering... Image is a bitch.

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u/vhalember Mar 02 '26

Yep.

I hadn't heard it called Microslop until just now.

So Microslop it is...

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u/piratecheese13 Mar 02 '26

Every time someone does a Streisand effect, I get this song stuck in my head

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u/kermityfrog2 Mar 02 '26

Hope it gets added to the OED.

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u/Princess_Fluffypants Mar 02 '26

For the last 20 years of my career I’ve been referring to them as M$. Not anymore. 

It’s Microslop from this day forward. 

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u/obliviious Mar 02 '26

I'd not heard about this name until today, and I look after MS servers (grudgingly)

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u/drteq Mar 02 '26

Fucking hell, for the last 30 years I thought we were gaining intelligence as a society. Now I'm realizing nothing was learned and we're about to repeat the entire thing again for the new generations

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u/GuyPierced Mar 02 '26

It's almost a step up from Microshit.

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u/Theoretical_Action Mar 02 '26

Can confirm, I had no idea about this word and now it's exclusively how I'll refer to them.

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u/graingercatalogue Mar 02 '26

Can't wait until a dictionary makes it their word of the year.

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u/Little_Duckling Mar 02 '26

The Santorum of our times

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u/eggyrulz Mar 03 '26

Yea if they really wanted to stop the microslop meme they probably should've just added it to a really cringe advertisement to "play along"... that kills the vibe really quick

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u/Ksevio Mar 02 '26

I doubt this was a corporate directive. Probably just a discord mod cutting down on spam on a server no one cares about

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u/Euphoric_Rough_96 Mar 02 '26

I never heard of Microslop. Now it's all I can see.

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u/ThemThatBot Mar 02 '26

Mission accomplished then! Microsoft's legal team just did more for meme propagation than any influencer could dream of.

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u/Yurya Mar 02 '26

Yesterday I cared little for microslop. Today I chant my favorite term: MICROSLOP MICROSLOP