I'm Still a Fan of Boo-Ya

I have a confession. I really don't like the word "woot!" And, while we're at it, the double, "woot! woot!"

To be honest, I think it's because I first started noticing this word being used by someone I wasn't really a fan of. His use of it was like nails on a chalkboard to me. Well, more like a douche on a dating site, but I digress. And how quickly my dislike for his use of the word expanded to the general public's use of the word.

Let's geek out for a minute, enter origin of woot! into google, and see where this fine word comes from.

..."Use it as an interjection or a celebratory statement! As in...'Hey! I just upgraded my 56k modem to 1.1 SDSL. w00t! w00t!'"

And:

..."w00t belongs to gamers the world over. It seems to have been derived from the obsolete 'whoot' which essentially is another way to say 'hoot' which itself is a shout or derisive laugh. But others maintain that w00t is the sound several players make while jumping like bunnies in Quake III."

Well, guess what, gamers and nerds. Woot (or w00t or woot!) went from your garages and parents' basements to the general public, and like everything else the general public touches, it's now officially ruined. Sorry.

Example A: this fresh hot result for woot! on Twitter:

"Woot got laundry done before 5!"

Amazing. Congrats. Do you want an award? I dunno. I just don't like it. Don't like to read it, don't like to say it. Do people even say it aloud or is it just something that's taken hold at the end of our emails, status updates, tweets, text-based victory dances, and self-congratulatory thoughts?

I hope that next week I will still hate this word. Because if woot! turns out to be like any number of those awful Britney / Maroon 5 / J-Simp / T-Swift / insert bad Top 40 artist here / song that I start off loathing, but upon forced listening via radio, gym, grocery store muzak, and the mall, I eventually come to like, and then sing without so much as an ounce of shame...well, I wouldn't be surprised.

It would be appropriate to end this with woot!

Not gonna happen. Boo. Ya.