Offline with Jon Favreau How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Changed the Way We Speak
Podcast Episode | 66 min | News

Offline with Jon Favreau

How Trump, Memes, and Algorithms Changed the Way We Speak

Podcast Episode | 66 min | News

Skibidi rizz Labubu Dubai matcha. The internet-and its algorithms-have reshaped the words we use and the way we speak-but are those changes also affecting our politics? Adam Aleksic, known online as Etymology Nerd, joins Offline to talk to...See moreSkibidi rizz Labubu Dubai matcha. The internet-and its algorithms-have reshaped the words we use and the way we speak-but are those changes also affecting our politics? Adam Aleksic, known online as Etymology Nerd, joins Offline to talk to Jon about his new book "Algospeak" in which he makes sense of our new, internet-optimized linguistic landscape. Jon and Adam discuss how that landscape is changing our politics, how Donald Trump's unusual syntax is designed to capture attention in it, and why brainrot has become the dominant aesthetic of the generations most native to the internet-Gen Z and Gen Alpha. See less