Here’s another one… Sorry, not sorry!
I’m triggered…! 
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I don’t see those in that category. But, YMMV (insert winky emoji)
(I was categorizing how small children might talk or be taught to talk, literally. I hear that variety a lot.)
Here’s one I see on social media a lot and I just HATE it for some reason. After someone posts good news or a sweet story, inevitably someone will comment “Oh this makes my heart happy!”
It just sounds silly to me. Why not just “Oh that makes me happy”
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“Woke”. Used in any context except for sarcastically. What does that even mean? It used to mean extreme crazy stuff, now it seems to mean, “Anything to the left of me, undefined”. And apparently “woke” is the ultimate evil, and must be destroyed as the top priority. Man, if you hate everyone who thinks slightly differently than you about one single thing, then you surely hate a lot of people. Love America, but hate Americans? 
Ugh. Rant over!!
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Here’s one I’ve seen in ads a lot recently, “it just hits different”. Ugh. No thanks to corporate America trying to be hip and cool like that. Sounds like a parent trying to speak teen lingo.
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You are right! I missed the ‘infantilizing’ part!
What does ‘YMMV’ mean?
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“Woke”, used in contexts other than the past tense of wake (from sleep), originally meant something like “having or marked by an active awareness of systemic injustices and prejudices, especially those involving the treatment of ethnic, racial, or sexual minorities” or “aware of and actively attentive to important societal facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”. It was originally more common in the AAVE dialect of English.
Now, it is commonly used by some right-leaning people to describe anything they do not like or do not like talking about, particularly in areas of racism or other bigotry, as something to fight against.
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Your mileage may vary. I was making a joke on that already being a phrase that others had complained about in this thread. 
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“Virtue signaling” as a derisive term for others’ actions that may give positive externalities. Implies that the speaker or writer cannot conceive that someone may be charitable, or may be doing such actions to benefit themselves while helping others or avoiding harming others as an external effect. For example, someone taking action to conserve water, electricity, fuel, etc. may be doing so because they do not want their water, electricity, fuel, etc. bill to be more expensive, while also giving the positive externality of conserving natural resources.
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Thanks!
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“Hits Different” is to me one of those millennial/GenZ phrases that manages to convey something difficult to convey with other as succinct words. I approve wider use of those words ,though not all take off. I like the Tik Tok derived “Rizz” also for that reason. Let me say, that I personally wouldn’t use these words.
What about if the person saying it is a veteran whose PTSD is being triggered by the opening scene of “Saving Private Ryan”?
What about the survivor of sexual assault who is triggered by the sexual assault scene in “Deliverance” (the book or the movie, your choice).
What about a holocaust survivor who’s triggered by the scene in Elie Wiesel’s “Night” where he describes arriving in Auschwitz?
All of those fall under the description of “I’m triggered”.
Of course, when somebody who has had a protected and privileged life claims to have been “triggered”, when they really should be saying “that made me uncomfortable”, that’s something else.
That falls under “overblown rhetoric on a day-to-day basis”.
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This is not the definition people that actually use the term “woke mob” would give, and seeing that the words racism and bigotry are attached to the term’s use illustrates how and why the term came about.
I know what it means. I have Gen Z kids. I just find it annoying and especially annoying when advertisers use it. I must hear it in every other ad when I’m watching Hulu or something.
When it’s a Doritos ad and they say, “Doritos just hits different” it’s gross, y’know? I mean I don’t know if Doritos even uses it, but I do hear it all the time and it makes me cringe each time.
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Since you contend the definition is wrong, perhaps you can tell us what you think it means?
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Lets move on from debating the definition of “woke”.
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It doesn’t bother me because as I said if I can’t come up with an as succinct usage that conveys the same concept, I am intrigued by a word/phrase. And “ hits different” seems to convey something we understand that doesn’t have an as concise equivalent already in prior use. Which may be why I just saw it used in the NYT. To me it’s could become akin to “ ghosting” which was in the words of my friend a linguistics teacher, a “ breakout” word that sticks around. But maybe not.
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Gonna disagree with that. I don’t think “hits different” is a unique or succinct way of conveying the message of “it feels different” or “new & Improved”. Internet lore and my Gen Z-er says it’s old and very 2018, also came from weed culture where the high you got from a new strain of MJ was more intense and “hit different”. Or do you think it means something else?
And to be clear I don’t mind it if people say it — it’s when advertisers use it that it really bugs me. Sounds like “how do you do, fellow kids?”
Nucular instead of nuclear
Gaslighting
I just hate that they don’t use the adverb.
“It hits differently” wouldn’t bother me as much. (Still don’t like it.)
I blame that old Apple campaign “Think different.” I guess if they meant the word different to be a substantive for “Think a different thing” I could allow it grammatically- barely- but everyone interpreted it as meaning “Think in a different way” i.e. “Think differently,” and a whole generation seemed to decide adverbs don’t exist.
So now it’s “hits different.”
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