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Macquarie Dictionary announces ‘AI slop’ as its word of the year, beating out Ozempic face (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 74 points 9 months ago* (13 children)

I had to google "Ozempic face" because I've apparently been living under a rock.

In case anyone else was under a rock...

From Cleveland Clinic:

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  • [–] 101 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    It's worth noting that Ozempic face is a side effect of rapid weight loss, not a side effect of Ozempic.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago

    Was going to quote just that, from the same article:

    ‘Ozempic face’ isn’t a side effect of the medication itself. Rather, it’s a side effect of the rapid weight loss the medication can bring.

    Oh wait, I did anyway.

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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's a sign of the times that the effects of rapid weight loss are attributed to a drug since most people don't know what it looks like!

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    People don't experience rapid weight loss because, in general, it's not a good thing

    Surely, most overweight people simply never lose the weight... but losing weight rapidly is itself unhealthy and most people who experience rapid weight loss do so because of trauma or disease

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  • [+] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)
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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Isn't that just how you would've looked like if you were 30lbs lighter all along? The sagging skin is due to weight loss sure, but your bones definitely didn't change.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    When you lose weight that fast the fat around your body isn't removed equally, and you still have the extra skin left once the weight is gone. It takes a few months to a year to have everything even out.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago*

    TIL about ozenpic face being what happens when you lose weight and the skin doesn't tighten up after removing the excess

    I had a buddy I went to college with who I saw 4-5 years later who lost like 300+ sounds and looked like that. Well before ozenpic.

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    • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    That is 2 words (or 3 depending how you count the abbreviation). You'd think a dictionary could get that right.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: linguists don't actually know what defines a "word"

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Why is this downvoted, it's actually a real thing

    Linguists struggle to find an exact definition of what a word is because speakers of different languages have different opinions of what a word is, and some languages make the distinction unclear

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    • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    But it’s not a word.

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Personally I think it should have been six seven

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