Why is everything iconic these days?

zx1

It seems everything these days is 'iconic'. A guy at work last week was talking about Costa and said his coffee was 'iconic'. I wanted to throw a desk at his face but decided not to :))
These days every building, actor, music track or movie is 'iconic' or even worse, every British celebrity is called a 'national treasure' which pisses me off. One website said Joey Essex was a 'national treasure'. Wtf????
Sick of all this ****. Stop using these phrases please.

mel the bell

your pizzas are iconic

zx1

Listening to a Youtube interview with Hank Marvin, he was described as 'iconic'.
*sighs*

slenkar

A lot of religion related words are used in relation to celebrities
American Idol or whatever the Brit version is
an Icon is a religious painting
worshipping celebs :)

rich_chandler

zx1 wrote: »

One website said Joey Essex was a 'national treasure'.

I agree with that, he should be put in a box and buried 2 miles down in the middle of the ocean...

mik3d3nch

Non iconic sed moronic - to paraphrase Saint Augustine.

def chris

someone else agrees

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/14153459-pop-goes-the-weasel-words-3-iconic

A sanctifying, censorious word despite its facade of fanboy rhapsody. A word that makes its user appear articulate while handily offering the chance for no further articulation. And because there's so much fucking laziness out there now, because there's so much shite to generate for so little money, 'iconic' is perhaps now the most overused word in pop critique

Luny

Someone in several thousand years time is going to discover our civilisation and work out that we worshipped many gods with our religion called 'Celibrianity' with gods called Forsythe, Fry and the great goddess Kardashian. Sad isn't it.

lister_of_smeg

Another similar expression you see overused these days is 'historic'. Usually used to describe an achievement which - although noteworthy in the context of the present - is in fact in no way 'historic' and absolutely will not be talked about in even a year's time.

hillelr

The ZX Spectrum was Iconic :)

Sokurah

The misuse of ironic is iconic. :)

dm_boozefreek

Sokurah wrote: »

The misuse of ironic is iconic. :)

The misuse of Iconic is also a little ironic :))

hikoki

Iconophiliacs versus Iconoclasmatics tonight without rounds until the final KO

Timmy

Isn't Iconic not just another word for 'old'? Just like 'interesting' is another word for 'not old'. :P

1024MAK

I use an anti-smeg-ometer which filters out all the cr@p words. If you look carefully at the language that some use, you can throw away over half of what they say, as they are just using these cr@p words as fillers in an attempt to make themselves sound "cool" and "trendy".

1024MAK

A bit like how r@re is used on fleebay...

ewgf

The modern world is almost the definition of the phrase "style over substance", sadly. Not that Facebook, Twitter, the endless parade of talent-less non-entities from 'reality TV' programs, the manufactured music singers and groups who are pushed forward by their companies for their looks and dancing ability, rather than their singing or (non-existent) ability to play their instruments, etc etc bloody etc are in any way style.

Your Spec-chum

I've never liked how old computers, consoles, and games get called retro. Retro gaming, retro gamers, and retro computers. I always thought if something was retro it was a new thing, but made to look or work like an old thing? It shouldn't be called a retro gaming community. It should be called old farts playing old games community. That's where I feel I fit into it anyway.

XTM of TMG

Lol, this topic ... I just went on YouTube and since I often watch videos related to fighting games like Street Fighter 5, a "related video" on the right side stood out to me: The Most ICONIC Moments in EVO History (EVO being an event). Yes, they even capitalized the word ...

MatGubbins

because DOS went away years ago

robert@fm

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

I've never liked how old computers, consoles, and games get called retro. Retro gaming, retro gamers, and retro computers. I always thought if something was retro it was a new thing, but made to look or work like an old thing? It shouldn't be called a retro gaming community. It should be called old farts playing old games community. That's where I feel I fit into it anyway.

Surely "retro" means "old, but cool".

You can tell from that what one of my favourite movies is... ;)

zx1

Seen the world 'iconic' three times today.
It was used to describe the jazz musician Charlie Parker, the film Get Carter and Alcatraz :))

robert@fm

XTM of TMG wrote: »

Lol, this topic ... I just went on YouTube and since I often watch videos related to fighting games like Street Fighter 5, a "related video" on the right side stood out to me: The Most ICONIC Moments in EVO History (EVO being an event). Yes, they even capitalized the word ...

In my experience of YouTube (especially those "The top 10 / the 10 most..." etc. videos), posters there often use tabloid language, such as "The Top 10 DEADLIEST Roller Coasters" when none of them were deadly and one wasn't even a coaster (it was a slingshot). (And that one used a click-bait thumbnail of a coaster which wasn't in the video, for the good reason that it couldn't possibly exist.) It turned out that the poster, and many of the commentators, were under the delusion that "deadly" merely means "scary" rather than "lethally dangerous".

A more recent (to me) example of this kind of idiocy was one of "10 BANNED coasters". Watching it, I knew it was bоllосkѕ because one of them was the Corkscrew at Alton Towers, which wasn't banned; it just got too old to be feasible to maintain any longer. Far from banning it, the park actually kept the Corkscrew section in the park as a mascot.

cnewbyuk

robert@fm wrote: »

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

I've never liked how old computers, consoles, and games get called retro. Retro gaming, retro gamers, and retro computers. I always thought if something was retro it was a new thing, but made to look or work like an old thing? It shouldn't be called a retro gaming community. It should be called old farts playing old games community. That's where I feel I fit into it anyway.

Surely "retro" means "old, but cool".

You can tell from that what one of my favourite movies is... ;)

Nah, Retro means what ever the item in question is worth, lets add another zero on the end.

ewgf

cnewbyuk wrote: »

robert@fm wrote: »

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

I've never liked how old computers, consoles, and games get called retro. Retro gaming, retro gamers, and retro computers. I always thought if something was retro it was a new thing, but made to look or work like an old thing? It shouldn't be called a retro gaming community. It should be called old farts playing old games community. That's where I feel I fit into it anyway.

Surely "retro" means "old, but cool".

You can tell from that what one of my favourite movies is... ;)

Nah, Retro means what ever the item in question is worth, lets add another zero on the end.

I don't recognise the quote, what is the film, please?

cnewbyuk

ewgf wrote: »

cnewbyuk wrote: »

robert@fm wrote: »

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

I've never liked how old computers, consoles, and games get called retro. Retro gaming, retro gamers, and retro computers. I always thought if something was retro it was a new thing, but made to look or work like an old thing? It shouldn't be called a retro gaming community. It should be called old farts playing old games community. That's where I feel I fit into it anyway.

Surely "retro" means "old, but cool".

You can tell from that what one of my favourite movies is... ;)

Nah, Retro means what ever the item in question is worth, lets add another zero on the end.

I don't recognise the quote, what is the film, please?

Lol!!! No quote, just me.

rich_chandler

ewgf wrote: »

cnewbyuk wrote: »

robert@fm wrote: »

Your Spec-chum wrote: »

I've never liked how old computers, consoles, and games get called retro. Retro gaming, retro gamers, and retro computers. I always thought if something was retro it was a new thing, but made to look or work like an old thing? It shouldn't be called a retro gaming community. It should be called old farts playing old games community. That's where I feel I fit into it anyway.

Surely "retro" means "old, but cool".

You can tell from that what one of my favourite movies is... ;)

Nah, Retro means what ever the item in question is worth, lets add another zero on the end.

I don't recognise the quote, what is the film, please?

https://www.themeraider.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/wreck-ralph-background-1.jpg

def chris

robert@fm wrote: »

XTM of TMG wrote: »

Lol, this topic ... I just went on YouTube and since I often watch videos related to fighting games like Street Fighter 5, a "related video" on the right side stood out to me: The Most ICONIC Moments in EVO History (EVO being an event). Yes, they even capitalized the word ...

In my experience of YouTube (especially those "The top 10 / the 10 most..." etc. videos), posters there often use tabloid language, such as "The Top 10 DEADLIEST Roller Coasters" when none of them were deadly and one wasn't even a coaster (it was a slingshot). (And that one used a click-bait thumbnail of a coaster which wasn't in the video, for the good reason that it couldn't possibly exist.) It turned out that the poster, and many of the commentators, were under the delusion that "deadly" merely means "scary" rather than "lethally dangerous".

A more recent (to me) example of this kind of idiocy was one of "10 BANNED coasters". Watching it, I knew it was bоllосkѕ because one of them was the Corkscrew at Alton Towers, which wasn't banned; it just got too old to be feasible to maintain any longer. Far from banning it, the park actually kept the Corkscrew section in the park as a mascot.

noticed one on youtube the other day, "top 10 most SARCASTIC ACHIEVEMENTS Ever!"

no idea wtf a 'sarcastic achievement' is supposed to be, but I dont even need to watch it to know (a) its probably american, and (b) there will be zero examples of sarcasm in the entire vid.

MatGubbins

Probably got sarcastic and satanic mix up again.

dm_boozefreek

MatGubbins wrote: »

Probably got sarcastic and satanic mix up again.

Sadly it could actually be true, a girl who used to work at my place a few years back mixed up Sadist, with Satanist......What's even more sad is it was somebody saying they were an Atheist, that caused the mix-up in the first place. Sad thing is she worked in customer services, and accounting :))

Guess she was good with numbers?....Maybe? :))

carlsson

I visited an icon museum in 1993. It wasn't particularly iconic, rather boring for a 18 year old at the time. A couple of icons at selected locations can be pretty and worth admiration, but 100++ crammed tightly together in small rooms rather had the other effect, in particular as they mostly looked the same.

Perhaps that is what people need, to get an overload of Russian Orthodox (in my case) icons, to stop calling everything they see or experience being iconic.