They want the latest iPhone, they refuse to use cash, they’re always talking about their FitBit data, they photograph and post their entire life-log.
You know the type, but what do we call them?
Libs is imprecise. Dronies is also related but imprecise. Not sure the word.
Tech Bro.
That’s the popular term. It’s most often applied to tech billionaires, but it covers those who idolize them, too.
I think my favorite tangential application is when Sam Altman had a meeting with some TSMC executives, and they allegedly dismissed him as a “Podcasting Bro”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/business/openai-plan-electricity.html
this is correct, and tech bro is indeed the term we use for them.
but it somehow feels way too respectful? like calling usians “yanks”.