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I can't stand this term 'game changer', I started noticing it being used a lot during early covid and then the Ukraine war, all for things which did not turn out to be 'game changers'.

You can see its explosive rise on Google Ngrams. Looks like we're still not quite at the peak

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=game+changer&y...




Ok, we've unchanged the game in the title above.


An unfortunate requirement of modern attention/engagement economy. Readers hate this one trick, but for the media outlets, if you don't crank up hype clickbait engine to 11, you're out, or running some very niche business.


Readers hate this one trick, click to find out why!


At $22.5K/yr it'll be more money changer than game changer.


In the early days just before and just after AGI, all of a sudden a lot of games will be changed in a short period of time.


"Double down" has a similar chart, another annoying phrase.




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