• Nominees for Word Most Likely To Succeed are “chopped”, “glaze”, “performative male”, “unc”, and “vibe-coding”
• “I think chopped will succeed because there will always be someone who *is* chopped [who needs a word to describe them]”
• The term “choppleganger” has been brought up, a portmanteau of “doppleganger” and “chopped”
• Voting has gone into a runoff between “Chopped” and “Vibe Coding”.
• CHOPPED HAS WON MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED due to technical difficulties
• Someone has nominated “rage-bate” for Overall Word of the Year, saying that the voting software we’re using, which is giving us constant technical difficulties, is “ragebaiting us”.
• Someone has nominated 6-7 for Overall, as it has “brought joy to children all over the world, and who am I to argue against that?”
• “As the only member here of the 6-7 community, I would like to throw my support behind it” - A FULL GROWN ADULT
• The crowd has turned on the voting software, accusing it of being “slop” and “vibe coded”
• “If our tech guy gives us the signal that he’s lost the will to live, we’ll switch to voting by a show of hands”
• “If this isn’t an argument in favor of rage-bait I don’t know what is” - regarding the vote software not working
• We are officially voting by a show of hands
• 17 votes for “The Algorithm”
• 9 votes for “DOGE (verb)”
• 39 votes for “Reheat Nachos”
• 67 (lol) for “Rage-bait”
• 45 for “6-7”! The MC remarks: “lol 4567”
• We’re doing a runoff between “slop” and “rage-bait”
• The tension is PALPABLE
• “rage-bait” has received 111 votes
• “Slop” HAS WON WORD OF THE YEAR WITH 161 VOTES