I hate this trend of saying "SLAMMED", or "HOUNDED", or "ATTACKED" etc in news articles where the stories are just "a couple of people with a dozen followers between them posted slightly negative tweets about topic xyz".

My parents were bitching about how Adele was "HAMMERED" online because she said "I am proud to be a woman" or something. Turns out it was just two complete nobodies tweeting about how that's trans exclusionary or something with 1 heart each.

[–] wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net 5 points 8 months ago

Buzzibee absolutely DISMANTLING article headlines! More above!

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's just so they can still write an article even though nothing really happened

[–] Guntrigger@feddit.ch 1 points 8 months ago

AFAIK it comes from tabloid headlines needing less words to fit on newsprint and remember it 30 years ago (it was just a stupid sounding then). I have no idea why it's made the translation to online news in recent years

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 points 8 months ago

I'm looking forward to the day when someone legitimately goes ham on someone else, profanity, yelling, the whole 9 yards, and the articles are all like, "so-and-so somewhat disagrees on such-and-such".