Your favorite X for the next five minutes
Your least favorite expression for the next five minutes: the above.
I could say that I’m annoyed by the tone of this expression — it’s either an assertion (in which case it’s presumptuous) or it’s an imperative (in which case, OR ELSE WHAT?) — but really I’m just bored of seeing it. Some people (cough) apparently can’t link to anything without declaring it the reader’s favorite something while also implying that the reader changes favorite somethings every few minutes.
Aside from that, I wonder what this kind of linguistic construct is called. I don’t think it’s quite a snowclone, because while it is “a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable … phrase or sentence that can be used in an entirely open array of different jokey variants by lazy journalists and writers”, it is not, as far as I can tell, quoted (or misquoted) from anywhere.
