Clare Stephens

There's an article in the New York Times this week that says that everyone under 40 is using this term wrong.

As Outloud's official most annoying host, and I say that because I'm always on time and I used to have the job title of Fat Checker.

That is a true thing.

This is the second in a series of mine, which began on Monday, when I lambasted Gen Z for not using enough capital letters.

So now in the second of my series, it falls to me, it seems, to explain what POV actually means.

Claire?

I see you have a pen and paper.

Please pick up the pen.

If you caption a video, POV, you're too short to reach the top shelf, that should feature a camera tilted up at something just out of reach.

It should not depict a short person hopping up and down in the middle of the screen trying to reach a shelf.

You got that?

POV is being used as synonymous with fly on the wall, and that is just not right.

Have you told everybody what it actually stands for?

Yeah, point of view.

Holly, keep up.

Incidentally, the same thing.

Now I have your attention.

The same thing has happened with aesthetic.

That doesn't mean pretty or good looking or nice.

It means what something looks like.