Mine is OOO for Out Of Office. I always misread it in my head like a ghost and it takes me a few seconds to process. It also doesn’t translate to speech—you have to say the whole thing.
Interested to see if others have similar acronyms they beef with.
STFU
I remember watching a video by Ryan Higa thinking it meant “stop tickling furry unicorns”, it wasn’t until I learned what it actually meant years later that I got pretty damn disappointed.
VOD is a close second though. I hate how you could take something that refers to something so general (videos on demand), and over time starr using it to exclusively refer to past Twitch streams. I know that this is what Twitch calls them, and it’s technically not wrong to call them that, but it still doesn’t make sense when that’s all that VOD means nowadays. I miss the days of being jealous at the Americans for having cable.
Hasn’t VOD always been the way to refer to video content that’s not “live”. They need a term that described the opposite of “this is broadcasting at a set time that you don’t control”. How did twitch use it in a way that exclusive to them?
So… how about “dead streams”? Checks all the boxes.
Or how about video on demand?
My work involves a streaming service and we use VOD to refer to normal TV shows. It’s not dead!
My comment is officially irrelevant.