A critical approach to "neofalante," newspeakers of Galician and their theoretical framework, is presented. In order to do so, we take as a case study some of its documented cases as a popular notion, its transformations, and its mobilisation in the planning discourse, along with its construction and evolution as an analytical category in the Galician academic and research fields. We then pay special attention to the latest proposals on the conceptualisation of this subject that place linguistic conversion as a fundamental element of "neofalantismo." Lastly, we propose a rethinking of the object "neofalante" in order to more broadly investigate the processes of linguistic revitalisation through neofalantes' agency, taking the notion of majority language displacement as an operational concept to do that.