Not a saying, but “gentrification”.
That word used to mean something very specific. Now it just means, people I don’t like moving into a place I like; change I don’t like then occurs. I read an article the other day with a guy complaining about how the ’hood had changed so much over the past 30 years due to “gentrification.” That’s not gentrification, dude. That’s just “change” or “life.” Getting pissy about things changing over a 30 year span makes about as much sense as getting angry at the weather or getting irate at becoming an old person.
It’s the new “pretentious.” Another term, a few years ago, thrown around with reckless abandon. Once again, it’s a word that has a specific meaning. Just because you don’t like Caleb or Jade does not make them pretentious. You just don’t like them. Big deal. It happens. You don’t need to dig deep into your thesaurus to say, “they suck.”
It’s annoying ’cause gentrification, the real thing, is an urban concern and is something that should be discussed as a public policy and land-use issue. But it’s now totally watered down to the point that the word means absolutely fuck all nothing.