{"id":1253,"date":"2022-03-18T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2022-03-20T20:37:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T20:37:28","slug":"x-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/x-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"X moment"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Reddit moment\u00a0<\/em>is an expression used to refer to a certain type of cringe<\/em> ‘cringeworthy behavior or content’ judged characteristic of\u00a0Redditors<\/em>, habitual users of the forum website reddit.com<\/a>. It seems hard to pin down what makes cringe Redditor-like, but discussion on Urban Dictionary<\/a> suggests that one salient feature is a belief in one’s superiority, or the superiority of Redditors in general; a related feature is\u00a0irl<\/em> behavior that takes Reddit too seriously. The normal usage is as an interjection of sorts; presented with cringeworthy internet content (a screenshot or URL), one might simply respond\u00a0 “Reddit moment”.<\/p>\n

However,\u00a0Reddit\u00a0<\/em>isn’t the only community that can have a similar type of pejorative X<\/em> moment<\/em>. One can find many instances of\u00a0crackhead moment<\/em>, describing unpredictable or spazzy<\/em> behavior. A more complicated example comes from a friend, who shared a link about a software developer who deliberately sabotaged a widely used JavaScript software library to protest the Russian invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.\u00a0JavaScript, and the Node.js<\/a> community in particular, has been extremely vulnerable to both deliberate sabotage and accidental bricking<\/em> ‘irreversible destruction of technology’, and naturally my friend sent the link with the commentary “js moment”. The one thing that seems to unite all X<\/em> moment\u00a0<\/em>snowclones<\/a> is a shared negative evaluation of the community in the common ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Reddit moment\u00a0is an expression used to refer to a certain type of cringe ‘cringeworthy behavior or content’ judged characteristic of\u00a0Redditors, habitual users of the forum website reddit.com. It seems hard to pin down what makes cringe Redditor-like, but discussion on Urban Dictionary suggests that one salient feature is a belief in one’s superiority, or … Continue reading “X moment”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,22,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-politics","category-presentation-of-self","category-sociolinguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wellformedness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}