Oxford 'rage bait' https://corp.oup.com/news/the-oxford-word-of-the-year-2025-i...
Collins 'vibe coding' https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/collins-w...
Cambridge 'parasocial' https://dictionaryblog.cambridge.org/2025/11/18/cambridge-di...
Dictionary.com '67' https://www.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-year-2025/
Merriam-Webster 'slop' https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/word-of-the-year
"Slop" is the word that perfectly captures what so much of 2026 was about, and I heard it from every direction, including people not into tech at all.
That said, Slop entry itself should be updated with this.
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89758234/#q89758967
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/89911387/#q89931883
It also saw its first use that month on /pol/, though I won't link to the archived threads (for obvious reasons). Unless you can provide earlier prior art, the most likely etymology of the term is 4chan, November, 2022, derived from "goyslop."
The only question remaining is whether it did, in fact, originate on 4chan. If it saw some usage outside of imageboards before November, 2022, then that undermines the argument. But if 4chan birthed it, then "goyslop" was surely its inspiration.
There’s a book called“Algospeak” by Adam Alekaik specifically talks about how internet slang terms often originate from radicalized communities like 4chan and slowly filter into the mainstream while losing their original political meaning. Goyslop-> AI slop is a textbook example of this.
Not if it originated on 4chan.
GP cities specific examples of this usage on 4chan in 2022 which is proof until someone can find a counter example.
> When Mr. Zuckerman reached the pigpen, he climbed over the fence and poured the slops into the trough.
Are you now willing to accept my 'proof' that 4chan actually derived specifically from Charlotte's Web?
I think its a stretch to declare there is zero relation considering how much internet language originates from 4chan.
That doesn't sound very specific, that sounds quite broad. Looking around posts up to 2023 I can see the word used for just about anything, including HDMI and Disney. Honestly, this says to me it's just used as synonymous with "slop" in the broad sense, with no added meaning.
>I think its a stretch to declare there is zero relation considering how much internet language originates from 4chan.
There's no zero relation. The relation between the two terms is just not parent-child, but fraternal. Both simply inherit their meaning from "slop". "Slop" already has connotations of cheapness, low quality, high quantity, and cattle feed, and is a word that has existed since Old English. There's literally no reason to think "AI slop" is descended from "goyslop". At best someone heard the latter and by analogy coined the former, but given that "goyslop" had already been coined by simply prepending a modifier to "slop", there's not even any need for that explanation.