I see it referenced constantly here, not quite as much on Reddit. I know what it means, but just wondering why such the popularity over on this side of the fence?

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    7 months ago

    I’m just glad people stopped inserting the word “literally” everywhere. Literally language enshitification.

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      7 months ago

      And that, everybody, is literally not the correct usage of “enshittification”.

      Jk, but for real though, it’s not a direct synonym for “degraded” or “gets worse”. It’s more specific than that.

      Plus, “literally” now literally has an alternative definition in the dictionary meaning “figuratively”. So y’know, maybe get over the needless linguistic prescriptivism.