Literally

They do it to upset you.

Because it contains fewer syllables than 'legitimately'

All the people assuming it's a recent thing in this thread are dumb. Joyce uses it in exactly the same way at the beginning of The Dead. It's been used that way for at least a century.

>be shitfuck millenial generation
>scan through the entire lexicon for a word to use incorrectly because haha fuck culture
>choose THE ONE word that if you made it mean its opposite it completely loses its meaning as a word and propels language the furthest along into hyperbolic meaninglessness

yeah thanks you fucking imbecilic 'sit down with a friend at starbucks and both be texting instead of talking to each other' shitty children. Also how self-awereness must you lack to not hear how many times you insert "like" into your sentences? How is that not obviously understood as annoying to the listener? What if i just smacked my lips every three words?

how much*

>propels language the furthest along into hyperbolic meaninglessness
Do you really think that we're on the path to a grunt and hoot based society? I'm pretty sure linguistic regression is a meme

>lit
>bet
>senpai
>on god

The shit I hear on a daily basis makes my skin crawl.

You should try going out of your basement and talking to actual people IRL.

You sound like one of them grumpy people from the Middle Ages complaining how language is degenerating. I wish I could find that snippet

I get nostalgic from the entire "wrong" and "next" type of replies. It reminds me of 06-08 internet atheism.