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Getting tired of this style of writing by poor writers who think swearing make them look cool. It was funny the first couple of times. Now everyone does it, and it is pretty cringe. It isn't even particularly creative or inventive swearing. Just inserting fuck every other word like it's a bastardization of pig latin.

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In the author's defense, the site follows the general formula of https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/. It is, by this point, a tradition.

I know, which is why I wrote, "It was funny the first couple of times."

At this point it's overused.

Feels a little different today than it did 2015 though. The hipster hacker aesthetic doesn't quite have the charm it used to.

In fairness, I find this style of writing to be far more engaging than the - far more prolific - mind-numbing, soulless corporate double-speak that you find on most websites of companies over a certain size.

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