Hasn&#x27;t this always been happening? Some kid in some neighborhood coins a term, that becomes slang, that spreads, it enjoys a short period of exclusive usage by those in a certain demographics then someone in some marketing department or writer&#x27;s room incorporates it into their media and a few years later it&#x27;s now in songs, cartoons, TV shows, etc that want to seem modern&#x2F;relevant.<p>The only difference is it now takes less time to spread and thanks to social media you can track the term almost to its source (since we don&#x27;t actually know if the person was the first to coin the term or the first to use it online and popular enough for many others to see it).<p>This is what happens with any social phenomenon, I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;d want a world where every little thing that gets coined is trademarked&#x2F;copyright by its source and you have to pay royalties to use recent &quot;slang&quot;.