"Degradation" or "crippling" are some that come to mind. My issue is less that it's vulgar and more that I think it's going to read in the near future the way people calling everything they liked "teh secks" years ago online reads now.
I think it's more like "grok"[0], where it's a weird little in-group signal that makes some small portion of people who read it cringe inwardly, but never becomes outdated because it never had a date in the first place.
[0] Which is functionally identical to "understand" whenever it's used, except 99% of the population has no goddamn idea what it means and 1% of the population can read the subtext that the person using who said it is a nerd
Some of the most lasting culture is laden with references to contemporary culture and events. This goes for Shakespeare and it goes for Dante Alighieri.
We're all a product of our time and circumstance. Trying to wash that away in order to write something timeless means we just write something bland instead.
Surely you recognize some middle ground between trying to remove oneself from time and circumstance altogether and glomming onto every meme and short-lived trend.
Fair enough. I've never come across that saying and spend a considerable amount of time online, but I get what you mean.
Well, seeing the path many of the big social media players chose, I could imagine that the term enshittification will be around for a little longer, unfortunately.
