• buzziebee@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    I hate this trend of saying “SLAMMED”, or “HOUNDED”, or “ATTACKED” etc in news articles where the stories are just “a couple of people with a dozen followers between them posted slightly negative tweets about topic xyz”.

    My parents were bitching about how Adele was “HAMMERED” online because she said “I am proud to be a woman” or something. Turns out it was just two complete nobodies tweeting about how that’s trans exclusionary or something with 1 heart each.

    • Mossy Feathers (They/Them)@pawb.social
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      10 months ago

      I’m looking forward to the day when someone legitimately goes ham on someone else, profanity, yelling, the whole 9 yards, and the articles are all like, “so-and-so somewhat disagrees on such-and-such”.

    • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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      10 months ago

      AFAIK it comes from tabloid headlines needing less words to fit on newsprint and remember it 30 years ago (it was just a stupid sounding then). I have no idea why it’s made the translation to online news in recent years