"Slop" Was the 2025 Word of the Year. What Comes Next?
Psychology Today | 08.01.2026 23:32
Merriam-Webster named "slop" its 2025 word of the year, defining it as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.” In its announcement, Merriam-Webster noted that, like "slime, sludge, and muck, slop has the wet sound of something you don’t want to touch.” Similarly, The New York Times observed that slop, in graphic terms, “conjures images of heaps of unappetizing food being shoveled into troughs.”
