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Merriam-Webster’s December 15, 2025 announcement naming “slop” as its Word of the Year is more than a linguistic note — it’s a mirror held up to a civilization drowning in cheap imitation. The dictionary defines “slop” now as digital content of low quality, usually churned out by artificial intelligence, and the very selection underlines how pervasive this junk has become on our screens. Americans who still value craftsmanship and truth should be alarmed, not amused, that such garbage is now a cultural benchmark.
“Slop” covers everything from uncanny AI videos and fake-news churned into clickbait, to mass-produced, soulless books and bizarre advertising images that make a mockery of honest creativity. Tech’s new toys—AI video generators and nonstop algorithmic mills—can vomit out millions of these hollow things in the time a real writer needs to craft a single sentence. This isn’t progress; it’s a replacement of human judgment with mechanical sameness, and the results are visible to anyone who still has taste.
Let’s be blunt: the people who run Big Tech and the corporate media have little incentive to stop the slop. Some platforms are pretending to limit AI fakes while others embrace continuous AI streams and partnerships that line executives’ pockets, even as the rest of us are forced to wade through the muck. When Disney and other giants cozy up to AI startups, what we’re seeing is old corporate capture—profit over principle, growth over quality.
Merriam-Webster’s choice also exposes the moral collapse of cultural gatekeepers who once curbed nonsense out of respect for truth and craft. The same institutions that used to elevate real talent now amplify performative noise and reward the loudest, cheapest content, not the best. Conservatives should point out that this decay is not neutral; it corrodes civic life, distorts public discourse, and hands power to whoever controls the algorithms.
This moment demands a conservative response rooted in common sense: defend human creativity, back policies that increase transparency and accountability for AI-generated content, and refuse to reward the corporations that traffic in slop. Merriam-Webster’s editors noted the public’s hunger for authenticity even as slop proliferates, which should give us hope that national taste can be reclaimed. We must insist that our culture prizes craftsmanship, truth, and personal responsibility over machine-made drivel.
So to hardworking Americans: stop normalizing the junk. Subscribe to honest creators, support reforms that label and limit AI fakery, and refuse to let an industry of convenience dumb down our public square. If “slop” is the word of the year, let it be the wake-up call to restore standards, celebrate real talent, and put America back on the side of authenticity and excellence.
