noun. Rendering something that was previously okay or even positive into a steaming pile of shit. verb: to enshittify. past participle: enshittified
by MPgh February 20, 2023
The process that a company undergoes once it has either become a Monopoly (i.e Google, Microsoft, etc) but still wants to continuously impress/attract investors, so they go as far as to nickle & dime, scrub for any relevant data for potential buyers, and then create inconvenience within the service itself and sell the solution to said inconvenience. just to get as much money from their consumers to make their actual "customers" (the investors) happy.
"Google must've been real busy enshittifying their services as of late. That was 2 back to back unskippable YouTube ads. Time to get an adblocker"
"PlayStation Plus has jumped prices like 5 times this console generation! What the hell they smoking? Enshittification pack?"
"PlayStation Plus has jumped prices like 5 times this console generation! What the hell they smoking? Enshittification pack?"
by turd-ninja May 28, 2024
The pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initial high-quality products or services exist to attract users, these products are eventually degraded to serve business customers better, and ultimately reduced to solely to line shareholders pockets with no intent to
for the users' best interest.
for the users' best interest.
Mod Pips took a game design masterclass on enshittification. First. he would gradually raise the price of membership and get users to combine their characters to one account. Then he would charge an ad version at the cheaper, original price and also force users to pay more for each additional account they own.
Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"
Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"
by PosteyPete2277 January 18, 2025
The pattern in which online products and services decline in quality over time. Initial high-quality products or services exist to attract users, these products are eventually degraded to serve business customers better, and ultimately reduced to solely to line shareholders pockets with no intent to
for the users' best interest.
for the users' best interest.
Mod Pips took a game design masterclass on enshittification. First. he would gradually raise the price of membership and get users to combine their characters to one account. Then he would charge an ad version at the cheaper, original price and also force users to pay more for each additional account they own.
Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"
Timmy: "Wow, Mod Pips sure knows how to implement enshittification in game design!"
Ricky: "Yeah, I heard he did such a great job strangling the last game, that they promoted him all the way to CEO!"
by PosteyPete2277 January 18, 2025