# @mashable on TikTok

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.tiktok.com/@mashable/video/7531762399552998670
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32787407-mashable-tiktok
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/d6f487a929.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-07-27T14:05:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Mashable (@mashable) — https://gondola.cc/mashable

## Caption

In yet another unsurprising twist, social media users have found a new way to voice their disdain for AI and the tech industry’s obsession with automation — by reviving an old insult: clanker. Originally used in the Star Wars prequels as a derogatory term for battle droids, clanker has found new life as a tongue-in-cheek insult aimed at real-world robots and the creeping presence of artificial intelligence. The term, popularized by clone troopers, has become shorthand for mocking tech elites' ambitions of an AI-powered future. Thanks to the lasting influence of those films on meme culture, the term has been pulled from a galaxy far, far away and dropped squarely into real-world discourse. Of course, there are people who are anti using the "c-word.” It’s satire, mostly. But it also reflects a very real cultural mood: people are facing the constant threat of being replaced by machines, and a future that seems increasingly synthetic, and they’re responding with memes, mockery, and a borrowed bit of sci-fi slang. #starwars #clanker #robots #robotsontiktok 

## Stats

- **Views:** 1,237
- **Likes:** 57
- **Shares:** 3
- **Comments:** 2

## Tags

robotsontiktok, robots, starwars, clanker

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