As an avid fan of co-operative video games, there is nothing more insulting than hearing a video game you are passionate about be simplified down in online spaces as “typical friendslop”.
Friendslop is a term that refers to low-budget and low-cost co-operative indie games. Usually, “friendslop” is the type of game you play with some friends for a while before dropping it entirely and playing something else; a form of disposable media based upon short game length and cheap consumer cost.
Reminds me of when people coined ‘walking simulator’ as a derogatory term to mock games like Dear Esther, alongside lengthy flame wars about what constitutes a ‘real game’.
These days walking simulator is just an accepted label for a specific flavour of game that didn’t previously have a name.
Getting mad at the word friendslop is pointless. If that’s what people (including developers!) are calling it, that’s what it’s called.