“stan” to mean “obsessive fan” hasn’t entered the vernacular usage of the internet too long ago. the meaning of words change, langauges are fluid, the living almost entity of a language does not care you dislike how the word is used, if it catches on it’ll keep happening until you accept it or grow numb
You mean the song “Stan” by Eminem, where he talks about a guy named Stan who is a fan of something (in this case a famous person)? “[term] Stan” has been a thing for a couple years now. It was a song about an obsessive fan who doesn’t understand parasocial relationships, but the term has grown to a much broader usage.
Why?
Because a “Stan” someone that worships a famous person. AI is not a famous person.
langauge can mean whatever we want, stan wasn’t even a word 10 years ago
Its called vernacular usage, maybe look it up.
“stan” to mean “obsessive fan” hasn’t entered the vernacular usage of the internet too long ago. the meaning of words change, langauges are fluid, the living almost entity of a language does not care you dislike how the word is used, if it catches on it’ll keep happening until you accept it or grow numb
A Stan is someone who is a fan of something.
Maybe you should listen to the song that the term was derived from.
Maybe you should consider that language isn’t fixed and words change meanings all the time, especially recently coined “internet” words.
You mean the song “Stan” by Eminem, where he talks about a guy named Stan who is a fan of something (in this case a famous person)? “[term] Stan” has been a thing for a couple years now. It was a song about an obsessive fan who doesn’t understand parasocial relationships, but the term has grown to a much broader usage.
Don’t be such a Stan Stan, sheesh 🙄
Seems to have quite a few worshippers anyhow.
I guess you’re a Lemmy worshiper, then
wut.