After yet another year of high-profile news stories and internet trends, Merriam-Webster has chosen one word to sum up 2025: “slop.”
The dictionary publisher defined it as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence” and said it reflected the “absurd videos, off-kilter advertising images, cheesy propaganda, fake news that looks pretty real, junky AI-written books” that have invaded people’s social media feeds this year.
“All that stuff dumped on our screens, captured in just four letters: the English language came through again,” the company said.
Other words and phrases that stood out for Merriam-Webster’s editors were: “gerrymander,” “touch grass,” “performative,” “tariff,” “six seven” and “conclave.”
“Slop” was so obviously the winner. Trying to make it “rage bait” was itself rage bait.
Lol what’s a “cloud dancer”?
cloud dancer is the pantone color of the year. it’s a shade of white
And what is the significance of it?
It’s a reminder that Pantone wants a monopoly on color categorization through a proprietary system with inadequate defining/visualizing tools, that’s the significance.
I get it, 8-bit RGB isn’t enough. I’m a fan of L/a/b values from CIE D65/10 measurements myself. A sphere of black to white, red to green, and blue to yellow on each axis.
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