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THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd

Apr 18 · 4 recs

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ChatGPT mentions software

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"So ChatGPT uses the word delve 10 times more than regular because there is a bias in the reinforcement learning process"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 55:18 • Apr 18, 2026

Polymarket mentions software

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"There are memecoin traders and Polymarket traders who are trying to make a quick buck off of pushing certain words or ideas"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:05:20 • Apr 18, 2026

4chan mentions software

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"It started out mostly on 4chan and Reddit and Twitter. And now it's mostly TikTok and Twitter"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 2:47 • Apr 18, 2026

Cornell mentions other

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"Cornell is doing amazing bird stuff. They have a bird tracking app that they actually use to follow bird migrations"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:27:11 • Apr 18, 2026

MIT mentions place

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"I took a conlanging class at MIT actually that kind of got me into it"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:25:57 • Apr 18, 2026

Dictionary.com mentions software

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"67 was voted word of the year in 2025 from Dictionary.com"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 0:02 • Apr 18, 2026

Know Your Meme mentions software

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"There was a study by Know Your Meme in 2022 that found where words come from over time by percentage of platforms"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 2:39 • Apr 18, 2026

Vsauce mentions media

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"For my educational influencer accent, probably it's highly influenced by people like Hank Green or something, Vsauce"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 20:04 • Apr 18, 2026

Braiding Sweetgrass mentions media

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"I love this book Braiding Sweetgrass. In it there's uh the podawatami expression to be a Saturday"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:02:25 • Apr 18, 2026

Dothraki mentions other

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"we see this in movies like there's a Dothraki language and a Klingon language"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:24:49 • Apr 18, 2026

Klingon mentions other

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"we see this in movies like there's a Dothraki language and a Klingon language"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:24:50 • Apr 18, 2026

Esperanto mentions other

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"Esperanto is another famous one where they tried to make that a global language and didn't really work out"

From: THEY’RE BRAINWASHING YOU! (& other secrets that made you click) - Etymology Nerd • ▶ 1:24:58 • Apr 18, 2026

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