Meanings
- not comparableSubjected to commodification.
Instead, these clips are at best just more content in an endless stream and at worst, mere entertainment, with their creators standing to profit if they get enough views. In this way, violence becomes quotidian and commodified.
2023 May 23, Gabrielle Bellot, “Chain-Gang All-Stars Is Gladiator Meets the American Prison System”, in The Atlantic2 more examples
In this image for a Pepsi ad, for example, Beyoncé presents herself as multiple Beyoncé's—a reproducible product complete with ostentatiously fake blonde wig and mugging facial expressions. She's miming a commodified femininity, and comes across as if she's imitating a drag-queen imitating Beyoncé.
2013 October 7, Noah Berlatsky, “Of Course Miley Cyrus Is a Sham”, in The AtlanticSecond, it suggests an axiom so puritan that I hesitate to express it: On Twitter, ideas are so commodified that to say something is simultaneously to amplify it. You’re never “just saying” on Twitter. You’re always doing.
2020 January 17, Robinson Meyer, “Why Twitter May Be Ruinous for the Left”, in The Atlantic
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of commodify
Translations
German kommodifiziert
- kommodifiziertTranslations
Polish utowarowiony
- utowarowionyTranslations
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commodified. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/commodified
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