Makeup Blog for Week 13

Mullins posted this article about "GIF" being named the word of the year and suggested we write about what our word of the year might be. That was originally my plan, however upon reading the article I saw that at the end it listed what it called "the shortlisted words according to OUP" and YOLO was one of them. Seeing that then sealed my plan for this blog, I would talk about YOLO and how in no way should that be considered one of the words of the year.

YOLO- defined as "You Only Live Once" has become the call of a lot of teens and young adults, its like a moment but an extremely stupid and haphazardly organized as in truth the only thing it stands for is an excuse for people to do stupid things without justifying having to worry about consequences.  This is just breeding a society where it is acceptable to do whatever you want because well you only have one life. That does not rein true and shouldn't be taught to young, stupid children easily influenced by falsehood.

On another note, YOLO even isnt a word, its an acronym. Which yes some acronyms are words like "asap"but thats different and frankly not stupid. I dont think something short lived and ridiculous such as YOLO should be named the word of the year.

For the most part my hatred of the idea of naming YOLO as the word of the year just comes from the fact that in doing so it would almost be like stamping a seal of approval on the people that use that as reasoning for doing stupid and careless things. People are already going to do those things, they dont need any extra help from the Oxford American Dictionaries.

And for my favorite meme against YOLO: