2020s neologisms

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fast-produced content or media of little-to-no value, created with generative artificial intelligence

cohort succeeding Generation Alpha

crisis due to climate change

thumb|alt=A photo of a person's hand while scrolling through news on smartphone|A person scrolling through news on a smartphone Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time watching short-form content or watching large quantities of user-generated content or news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. The concept was coined around 2018, and became more widespread in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO) observed that the pandemic was accompanied by widespread misleading information, conspiracy theories, a

countries in West Africa, Central Africa and the Sahel in which coups d’état occur frequently

mobile application that provides multiple services that include financial transactions

psychological harm that can arise from using GenAI chatbots

neologism for someone who benefits from nepotism

thumb|1966 AMC Ambassador DPL advertisement Motonormativity (also motornormativity, windshield bias, car blindness, or, pejoratively, car brain) is an unconscious cognitive bias in which the social norms of private motor car ownership and use, and their societal effects and externalities, are assumed to be natural, universal, inevitable, neutral, and non-negotiable. It is a type of normativity based on the presupposed role of cars in society.

video game genre

neologism that means disproportionately affected groups and territories

self-care trend of spending large amounts of time in bed

Westsplaining (a blend word of west and the informal form -splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term that represents criticism of Western world sociopolitical views of other parts of the world. It has been used primarily in relation to Western discussions of Central and Eastern Europe and its historical and current relations with the Soviet Union and Russia.