Okay, I’ve come to a decision that sadly means I can no longer call myself a Free-Speech Absolutist.
I’ve decided that when I do eventually become the Neko-Pony-Femboy Supreme Emperor of Terra, there will be a list of words that are on a special blacklist. Special in that very specific groups of people are forbidden from using them: specifically corporations advertising media products and their merch, YouTube essayists and commentary channels in their videos. If anyone from these three groups speaks one of these words (in the aforementioned context) they will be publicly castrated and then executed by drowning in cat pee.
Top of that list is the word “iconic”. If that word were a small child, CPS would be inundated abuse reports.