5d ago

Why did the word "Brazen" become widely used in the previous week?

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/48046321

For me, It started with chatbots saying it and then out of nowhere, I started seeing a lot of news articles using this word.
Any analysis to this or a reason for its popularity?

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I don’t think it’s really taken off in just the last week. Or at least I haven’t noticed it being used more frequently than ever.
You may be experiencing the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon
You know, where you notice something, and start seeing it everywhere. It hasn’t actually changed in frequency, you just are noticing it more frequently now.
This happened to me recently after noticing an obviously AI generated text that mentioned the phrase “masterclass” and then all of a sudden every YouTube game review or video essay or blog post were using it too and it was driving me nuts. Now obviously it was those sources that the AI was trained on that made it use masterclass so often, but I’ve been turned off by the phrase so much that I will forever avoid it in my own writing from now on.
Because she finally found a bra that fit properly, so now she's achieved bra-zen.
If it's a word that suddenly exploded in popularity in text media recently I would suppose it is one of some LLM's favorite uncommon words. See the rise of the word 'delve' in scientific papers for an example of this sort of trend.