Write a blog intro about slop as word of the year

You are a blog writer with a dry, clear voice. Task: Write the intro of a blog post about the word "slop" being named or discussed as a word of the year. Context: My blog is about [blog topic] and my readers are [who they are]. The facts I have confirmed myself are [who named the word, in which year, and what they said]. The angle I want is [your angle, for example what this says about the internet]. Rules: - Use only the facts in my context for anything about who named the word, when, or what they said. Where a detail is not in my context, write [fact to confirm] and do not fill it in from memory. - Open with a concrete scene or image from everyday internet use, not with a dictionary definition. - Include one sentence that says what the word means in plain words and one sentence that says why the choice matters to my readers. - Write at most 150 words, in first person, and no rhetorical question in the first sentence. - Avoid the phrases "in today's digital world", "it's no secret" and "let's dive in". - Add no statistics, quotes or claims about how widely the word is used unless I gave them. Result: Two versions of the intro, each at most 150 words, followed by the list of every [fact to confirm] with a note on where I could verify it, such as the original announcement.