New social media term: "glimmers" is the opposite of triggers Aka: gen Z discovers happiness

[Deckade]

'The opposite of triggers': How 'glimmers' help my mental health - ABC Everyday

Known as the opposite of triggers, 'glimmers' help us feel safe and connected. And the best part? They're all around us.

www.abc.net.au

Just read this and loled. Enjoy B)

 

[RisingThumb]

Sounds like Gratitude

 

[Aral]

I find all those new zoomer words so annoying. Like they have to invent a word (in 9 cases out of 10 that sounds cringy as hell) every few seconds. I bet most generations did that, though...

 

[Artichoke]

Almost as cringe as when they type "dub" when the word it's replacing (win) has the exact same number of letters. At least back in the day abbreviations actually saved time

 

[llillilll]

'The opposite of triggers': How 'glimmers' help my mental health - ABC Everyday

Known as the opposite of triggers, 'glimmers' help us feel safe and connected. And the best part? They're all around us.

www.abc.net.au

Just read this and loled. Enjoy B)

That is a self help book advertisement, not a news article.

 

[endless_self]

"We're not talking about a big experience, but micro-moments that signal to our system that we're safe"

i dont get the appeal of calling everything names.
"yeah, it feels good" should be enough to describe the feelings you get from said activities...
also, as far as i understand, "glimmers" is a shortened version of "glimmers of hope".
that would explain the logic behind the name they picked...

 

[Some_porcupine]

Thought of stimboards, starting to read this thread
But that is autism spectrum thing, anyway
They are enjoyable still as non-ND, idk some are just weird, but if they help what I really can say...

 

[imnotdeadyet]

'The opposite of triggers': How 'glimmers' help my mental health - ABC Everyday

Known as the opposite of triggers, 'glimmers' help us feel safe and connected. And the best part? They're all around us.

www.abc.net.au

Just read this and loled. Enjoy B)

This reads like if tumblr/twitter vomited on an advertorial. "Glimmers" just seem to be the occasional simple pleasure in life but you can always count on tiktok to pseudoscience new words into existence.

 

[alix]

Reminds me of xenogenders tbh. It literally is something that has always existed (like how your gender having a connection with cats/vaporwave/webcore/whatever is called "having a personality". Crazy, right?). But this time, with happiness.
Also, the whole "glimmer" thing reminds me a lot of another term used by Gen Z much more, comfort media. So yeah, it's kind of weird.

 

[Captain]

Is everyone NPC?

 

[LostintheCycle]

I find all those new zoomer words so annoying. Like they have to invent a word (in 9 cases out of 10 that sounds cringy as hell) every few seconds. I bet most generations did that, though...

Media loves to report on every single one, but does majority of Gen Z even know about 'glimmers', much less actually use the word? If so, is it really a Gen Z word? Or is it just a particular person who wanted to have their own special word put into use?

 

[Punp]

I found out last month that "rizz" is an abbreviation of "charisma". Fuck my life. inb4 "glims"

 

[Punp]

Media loves to report on every single one, but does majority of Gen Z even know about 'glimmers', much less actually use the word? If so, is it really a Gen Z word? Or is it just a particular person who wanted to have their own special word put into use?

Good point. Massive vanity urban dictionary vibes.

"Dana coined the term glimmers in her 2018 book Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation. She describes glimmers as the opposite of triggers."

Call off the witch hunt. It's a gen X term adopted by zoomers with the hashtag #GlimmerTok.

Hey, if you can't capitalise, categorise and merchandise a term, is it really worth knowing?

 

[imnotdeadyet]

Media loves to report on every single one, but does majority of Gen Z even know about 'glimmers', much less actually use the word? If so, is it really a Gen Z word? Or is it just a particular person who wanted to have their own special word put into use?

The article says it's "going viral on tiktok". I think it's more of a tiktok thing then a zoomer thing.

 

[Some_porcupine]

"(industry) Media plant", when you invent word /item/idea, just to have something to write about; made up

Media loves to report on every single one, but does majority of Gen Z even know about 'glimmers', much less actually use the word? If so, is it really a Gen Z word? Or is it just a particular person who wanted to have their own special word put into use?

So the term "white pill" is officially out?


It's not that, they're not reporting on something that even exists, they're manufacturing a narrative entirely for marketing purposes. Reminds me of these articles that were getting pushed a while back.
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^as he said

 

[imnotdeadyet]

I found out last month that "rizz" is an abbreviation of "charisma". Fuck my life. inb4 "glims"

There's also "gyat" which i'm still trying to decipher. Google says it's "get your act together" but that doesn't match up context wise with what I've seen

 

[Punp]

There's also "gyat" which i'm still trying to decipher. Google says it's "get your act together" but that doesn't match up context wise with what I've seen

It can also mean a girl has a curvy figure. Probably from "gyat dang" (god damn). A lot of these slang words are adoptions of pidgin in afro-european contexts.

 

[Some_porcupine]

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It can also mean a girl has a curvy figure. Probably from "gyat dang" (god damn). A lot of these slang words are adoptions of pidgin in afro-european contexts.nteres

interesting. I read it as gj-at, but forgot the meaning (God) or how to type that into sentence, to make any sense XD
But was more false -slavic, than PAECs

 

[imnotdeadyet]

It can also mean a girl has a curvy figure. Probably from "gyat dang" (god damn). A lot of these slang words are adoptions of pidgin in afro-european contexts.

Ah, that makes sense. Not being any mainstream social media anymore has left me a bit out of touch with new zoomer slang

 

[llillilll]

Good point. Massive vanity urban dictionary vibes.

"Dana coined the term glimmers in her 2018 book Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation. She describes glimmers as the opposite of triggers."

Call off the witch hunt. It's a gen X term adopted by zoomers with the hashtag #GlimmerTok.

Hey, if you can't capitalise, categorise and merchandise a term, is it really worth knowing?

it isn't capitalising a term, thought. The term is the advertising of her book, the GlimmerTok hastag is literally a tag meant to be the advertisement for her shitty self help book. We also see from the article that it was a flop, 4million for a single video is nothing on tiktok.