Bunkies, the folks at ADS are going to use a vulgarity and I am merely going to quote them:
According to the American Dialect Society – “enshittification” was chosen as Word of the Year (2023) in its annual vote. It was the 34th anniversary of the society’s original Word of the Year vote in December 1990. The term enshittification became popular in 2023 after it was used in a blog post by author Cory Doctorow, who used it to describe how digital platforms can become worse and worse. “Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification,” Doctorow wrote on his Pluralistic blog.
In a press release issued after the ADS vote on January 6, 2024, Ben Zimmer, chair of the ADS New Words Committee and language columnist for the Wall Street Journal, and Dr. Kelly Elizabeth Wright of Virginia Tech, data czar of the New Words Committee were quoted as saying, “Enshittification is a sadly apt term for how our online lives have become gradually degraded. From the time that it first appeared in Doctorow’s posts and articles, the word had all the markings of a successful neologism, being instantly memorable and adaptable to a variety of contexts.”
Remember, they said it, I’m merely quoting.
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