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Ok I am once again liveblogging the Word of the Year vote
• For informal word of the year, multiple people have gone up to the mic announcing themself as “team rawdog”
• One respected professor threw his support behind “W”, saying (I’m paraphrasing) “double the u, double the pleasure”
• In lieu of an institution, one person announced themself as a “tumblr shitposter”. That person? Was me.
Unsurprisingly, “rawdogging” has won Informal Word of the Year 2024 by a truly MASSIVE landslide
“Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body” has just been last-minute nominated for political word of the year, challenging “Luigi”’s crowd-favorite status.
Someone just started playing smooth jazz on the speakers to pass the time as waited for the presenters to resolve their tech issues
“Luigi” wins political word of the year!!
• Somebody (me) just last-minute nominated “I’m bald” for Digital Word of the Year.
• A middle school teacher has gone up to the mic to INSIST that the correct order is “Skibidi Ohio Rizz”, not “Skibidi Rizz Ohio”
• The Digital Word of the Year commentariat appears to be almost entirely made up of middle school teachers
• A middle school teacher sitting next to me: “I’ve had to set a quota for how many ‘skibidi’s are allowed in my students’ creative writings”
“Brainrot” wins Digital Word of the Year!
• For the second day in a row, the presenter has insisted that “hurkle durkle” can be used as a synonym for “bedrotting”
• “Lock in” wins Most Useful Word of the Year
• WOTY mvp Nicole Holliday has brought up the concept of “Toilets with threatening auras”, arguing that “we live in a vibes-based economy”.
• Arguing in favor of “Unserious”, someone claimed that “there is nothing more cutting than being called unserious.” She then proceeded to call the rest of the contenders unserious, eliciting audible gasps from the audience.
• “Unserious” has defeated “NIL” in a runoff for Most Likely To Succeed Word of the Year
Ok we’ve moved on to “Most Fun While it Lasted”, a category that I accidentally caused to exist during nominations yesterday.
• Someone has gone up to defend “hawk tuah”, calling it the “most potent, most virile” word of all time. The havoc this comment has caused is indescribable.
• Ok seemingly everyone this round is speaking in support of “Hawk Tuah”
• “Brat” wins Most Fun While it Lasted!
• Someone has provided “We boutta rawdog an entire presidential administration” as an example sentence
• In a profoundly unsurprising development, basically half of the commenters this round spoke in favor of “rawdogging”
