screenflation

Being a contraction of "screen time inflation", this slang term "screenflation" refers to the phenomenon where "the behaviour requirement to get more screen time from your parents feels increasingly strict, even though the behaviour requirement to get more screen time from your parents akcually remains the same". This phenomenon typically happens when the amount of screen time you "deserve" increases, even though the behaviour requirement to get each hour of extra screen time from your parents akcually remains the same.

Ever since my parents started tracking my screen time, I've been feeling the effects of "screenflation"—I'm doing the same chores but now it feels like I have to jump through hoops just to earn that extra hour of YouTube time!

by Emotional Cruiser September 26, 2025

screwflation

Screwflation, like its first cousin stagflation, is an expression of a period of slow and uneven economic growth, but, its potential inflationary consequences have an outsized impact on a specific group. The emergence of screwflation hurts just the group that you want to protect — namely, the middle class, a segment of the population that has already spent a decade experiencing an erosion in disposable income and a painful period (at least over the past several years) of lower stock and home prices. Importantly, quantitative easing is designed to lower real interest rates and, at the same time, raise inflation. A lower interest rate policy hurts the savings classes — both the middle class and the elderly. And inflation in the costs of food, energy and everything else consumed (without a concomitant increase in salaries) will screw the average American who doesn’t benefit from QE 2. -- Doug Kass

I am getting one percent interest on my savings. I am a victim of screwflation.

by NotoriousMF June 14, 2011

screenationship

Definiton 1: A relationship, romantic or otherwise, in which the synchronizing of viewing serials on streaming entertainment is part of the bonding.
Definition 2: Any relationship where you share the password to streaming entertainment accounts.

"we are on our third show in this screenationship". "Our screenationship began with The Wire".

by murkeewater December 2, 2017