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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 13:37:23 GMT
Anyone else growing to despise the terms "Stagey" and "Artsy" etc?
EG
"New stagey content coming soon"
"Update for all you Artsy peeps"
Maybe me getting old but its grinding me down, this having to assume melodramatically banal terms for everything.
Or do you consider yourself veritably stagey?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 15:06:10 GMT
Use of the term stagy/stagey has long referred to being 'fake', 'shallow'. It's the first thing I think when I see the term used in any context. 'Artsy' has long been similarly negative, meaning 'pretentious'.
I presumed people used them to reclaim the terms. Is that right?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2020 16:06:04 GMT
Quote possibly. The fake connotation makes sense as I seem to interpret it as a fairly disingenuous term.
They're terms I've noticed theatrical Social Media channels using in posts lately, WoS especially.
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Post by kathryn on Oct 4, 2020 10:30:38 GMT
They are cliquey in-group terminology prevalent on social media that are annoying if you don’t feel yourself to be part of the in-group.
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Post by sfsusan on Oct 6, 2020 17:01:28 GMT
In the US, "artsy" is usually followed by a rhyming word starting with f... and it's not a compliment. I think there if you want to imply something positive and artistic, you'd use "arty". (A town like Sedona, Arizona, with a lot of new-age gift shops, boutiques and art galleries, could be described as arty.)
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