'audiofool/audiophool' seems to be an increasingly common term of derision I see on the internet these days.
Personally, and this is no great insight on my part, it seems to be a backlash against a) the rising popularity of high end personal audio products and b) the outlandish and irrational claims that some manufacturers make about their gear and c) various cloud fortresses on the internet where those claims get translated into perpetual hype machines.
Honestly it makes me upset when I see companies spruiking stuff that can't possibly render the improvements claimed because it just makes a hobby I enjoy seem more irrational than it already is.
I don't know what you can really do about it. About 16:33 in John Darko of Digital Audio Review actually talks a fair bit about this idea in an interview on Nathan Wright's podcast Ohm Air (Disclosure: Nathan supports me on Patreon)
https://soundcloud.com/ohm-image/ohm-air-013-legally-inactive-pt-2"Anybody who's not an audiophile... must think we're absolutely bonkers."
I had to go back and watch my own videos to see if I uptalk actually. Same as when I learnt about vocal fry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register I'm not trying to be Kai Ryssdal but I have to listen to myself talk all the time when video editing and it's been helpful to pick out terrible speech patterns I've developed.
