Nonsense words in "trying to be cool" IT

Say what?

[Leosghost]

Just found this in a BBC article about BBC 3..
[bbc.co.uk...]

20% of budget will go on non-traditional content - such as micro-videos, listicles and gifs

My bold..

Listicles...!

Apparently the marketroids have bred ( or possibly "rocked up"* ) with the skeksis and spawned a new dialect..

*Another "trying to be cool" pustule upon the language, as elegant as dads dancing disco..

[martinibuster]

It's a real word. Means one of those top ten list articles. The format was invented to game Digg because it was observed that top five list and top ten lists tended to rank higher. Digg's heyday is past but the practice continues elsewhere. What I always found a bit nutty was how SEOs turn the practice on each other, writing top ten SEO articles, like two farts repeating the same knock-knock joke to each other.

[lucy24]

cracked dot com counts as "non-traditional"? :: sob ::

More to the point... Since when is a GIF "non-traditional"? Did you leave something out?

If you're going to get worked up about linguistic aberrations-- which you've got every right to do, because not every error is the vanguard of a permanent shift, and some abominations absolutely need to be nipped in the bud-- new words to describe new things would be pretty far down the list of offenses.

Probably too late to raise a fuss about sociology and television, though.