StudyTube

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Blend of study + YouTube. By surface analysis, study + -Tube.

If you are not aware of the StudyTube community, there are several channels on YouTube dedicated to studying, with over 100k subscribers, which considering it is a rather new and niche audience, this is a substantial subscriber account in comparison to commentary, beauty and gaming channels.

The only downfall of StudyTube is that it can lead to what feels like productive procrastination.

I find StudyTube an overwhelming place at the best of times but UnJaded Jade is one of the nicest places on the Internet.

2019 September 23, Ella Somers, “Entertainment Guide”, in Canta, number 11, page 33:

Therefore, I’ve brought together a list of my 5 favourite Study YouTube, or StudyTube, channels to help get you into that motivated mindset.

2020 January, Sabita Burke, “Sabby Studies”, in The Spark, Reading University Students’ Union, page 25:

As UK schools closed and exams were cancelled, a group of educational YouTube vloggers — the Study Tubers^([sic]) — felt compelled to help their fellow students, writes Amy O’Brien.[…] Six hours later, the StudyTube Project channel was live.

When schools first began to close, I brought together 18 academics to collaborate on a shared platform called ‘The StudyTube Project’ which sought to provide escapism and education in these unprecedented times.

2020 July/August, Jack Edwards, “Why using social media to share my experience at Durham University changed my life”, in Cuthbert’s Chronicle, number 12, St Cuthbert’s Society, page 11:

I have a confession to make: I have a mild obsesssion with StudyTube. One of my guilty pleasures is watching people plan their productive lives in beautiful bullet journals using pens that are more expensive than my jeans, while I procrastinate my own work.

2020 October 29, Angelina Zahajko, “The 6 Zoom Commandments: A How-To Guide to Surviving and Thriving through Midterm Season”, in The Innis Herald, volume VII, number 1, page 5:

My friend recommended I check out Eve Bennett’s channel, a studytube staple, when I was in S6.

Zimbabwean-born student Vee Kativhu—part of the academic StudyTube community—has vlogged her way through degrees at Oxford and then Harvard, 300k viewers tuning in weekly to watch her write essays, sit through lectures, and revise in timelapse.

2021, Olivia Yallop, Break the Internet: In Pursuit of Influence, Scribe, →ISBN:

She [Eve Bennett] was one of the pioneers of StudyTube and is well-known for her colourful wall of Post-it notes, time-management skills and advocacy of mental health.

Notion how-to videos, setups, and templates are the latest trend in the online productivity subculture known as Studyblr (the studying niche on Tumblr), Studygram (Instagram), Studytube (YouTube), and now Studytok (TikTok), where creators cover notetaking, organization, desk setups, and more.

2021 February 8, Bettina Makalintal, “Why We Can’t Get Enough of Watching Other People Organize Their Lives”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2021-02-08:

Juliette Guéron-Gabrielle speaks to YouTuber Ibz Mo about his student experience at Cambridge, StudyTube and online learning in lockdown. […] Did you see YouTube change over the years? God, yes. When I started it, there was no studytube.

2021 February 26, ““Best three years of my life”: Ibz Mo on Cambridge”, in Varsity, number 888, page 15:

We’ve seen the growth of studytube and studygram as motivational tools and platforms for students to help one another.

2021 March 30, Lucy Fitzsimmons, “PhD with Laura: Trinity geneticist shares the ins and outs of PhD life online”, in Trinity News, volume 67, number 8, page 23:

The unrealistic habits of StudyTube have created counterproductive relationships with audiences to academia.

2021 September 29, Nicole Mui, “Investigative Report: Toxic Positivity; Selling success: Influencers’ romanticization of school life”, in The Charger Account, volume T, number 1, Leland High School, page 10:

“The paradox of StudyTube is you make a reputation around being a normal and relatable student. The thing is, once you start making money and having an audience, you’re no longer an ordinary student.”

2021 October 5, Tom Haynes, quoting Jack Edwards, “What happens to studytubers once they stop studying?”, in i-D, archived from the original on 2021-10-06:

Notion has become very popular among the studytube community.

2022 October 10, Sophie Revell, “The Best Productivity Apps for Students”, in Gair Rhydd, number 1183, page 23:

StudyTube is weird. I jumped in, expecting Lo-Fi music and aesthetic bullet journaling tips. In horror, I travelled down a rabbit hole of self-help channels that finally led me to Jordan Peterson’s top tips on being a far-right wanker. I won’t lie, I fucking hate self-help, and StudyTube is no exception.

2022 November, Anna-Marieke Lechner-Scott, “Study Partners for Sale”, in Bossy, 8th edition, ANU Women’s Department, page 54:

(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented channels on YouTube.


Lenny Face

Of obscure origin; the name Lenny was possibly suggested arbitrarily in a thread on 4chan or Reddit.

unknown

obscure

Khotulev is far from alone in his interest in these characters. There’s a forum on Reddit, for example, dedicated to clarifying the meaning of emoticons and suggesting new ones. Some of the most popular emoticons have taken on meme status, such as “Lenny Face”.

2014 November 26, Chris Baraniuk, “:-o: The surprising power of emoticons”, in BBC Future:

The internet has produced many strange fads throughout the years, from cats getting scared of cucumbers to the weirdly unsettling Lenny Face. But none of these memes have anything on the latest internet phenomenon — one that's literally described as a frog riding a unicycle.

2016 May 27, German Lopez, “Dat boi, explained”, in Vox:

(Internet) The kaomoji-style emoticon ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) or any of its variations, mostly used to suggest mischief, imply sexual innuendo or a second hidden meaning behind a sentence, or pasted over and over to spam online discussions.


diavlog

Blend of dialogue + vlog, itself a blend of video and blog, itself a blend of web log.

(Internet) A weblog using video of a dialogue between two people as its primary presentation format.


VTubing

While vtubing as a phenomenon has grown sharply in popularity here in the United States within the last couple of months due to Hololive debuting several new vtubers who speak English on stream, it has existed in one way or another for at least a decade, with various vloggers on YouTube or streamers using face animation technology to hide their actual faces.

2020 December 22, Tyler Colp, “The Vtuber Industry: Corporatization, Labor, and Kawaii”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2020-12-22:

Their backs coming up against the wall with every day that passed, the girl—who was sticking to her support role—found out about VTubing, which had only just started showing glimmers of the craze it would later become.

2022, Nana Nanato, translated by Alice Prowse, VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream, volume 3, J-Novel Club, published 2023, →ISBN:

Popular in Asia for some years, VTubing has only recently gained traction in the U.S.

2022 September 26, Ann-Marie Alcántara, “They’re Internet Famous But Remain Anonymous”, in The Wall Street Journal:

Despite the rapidly changing landscape and new challenges, the appeal of VTubing still shines through.

2022 December 24, Patrick St. Michel, “Pioneer’s departure marked new era for virtual stars”, in The Japan Times:

“In the realm of VTubers, there appears to be a concept of a person behind the avatar, but in reality, that doesn’t exist. I am me. I undeniably exist!” Edo Lena said. She highlights the intriguing dynamic of VTubing, where the virtual persona captivates fans while the true identity of the VTuber remains distinct, showcasing how VTubing facilitates a multifaceted expression of self and creativity.

2023 September 20, Benoit Palop, “Virtual Personalities, Real Connections: The Impact of Virtual YouTubers”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2023-09-27:

Obskur, an all-in-one broadcasting application, wants to make VTubing more accessible by letting users create 3D models and interactive environments without technical skills.

2023 November 13, Morgan Sung, “Obskur’s Character Creator and marketplace streamlines VTubing”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2023-11-13:

(neologism) The act of creating content as a VTuber.


Twitterism

What’s worse is the whole Twitionary, which encourages people to neologize new Twitterisms, making us all talk like we’re the progeny of Elmer Fudd.

2009, Janelle Randazza, Go Tweet Yourself: 365 Reasons Why Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and Other Social Networking Sites Suck, Adams Media, →ISBN:

There are a few weird Twitterisms that are part of the Twitter shorthand.

2011, Michelle Golden, Social Media Strategies for Professionals and Their Firms: The Guide to Establishing Credibility and Accelerating Relationships, Wiley, →ISBN, page 192:

The 140-character limit on messages has caused Twitter users to create and modify their own shorthand codes to help users better use the service and communicate with each other. To help get you up to speed, here are a few of the most common “twitterisms.”

2012, Brian J. Dixon, Social Media for School Leaders: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting the Most Out of Facebook, Twitter, and Other Essential Web Tools, Jossey-Bass, →ISBN:

To use a Twitterism: facepalm!

2013, Jane Caro, Antony Loewenstein, Rachel Woodlock, Simon Smart, For God’s Sake, Macmillan, →ISBN:

There are always newly coined slang terms, fresh idioms, and these days unexpected “twitterisms” to deal with.

2017, Rebecca L. Oxford, Teaching and Researching Language Learning Strategies: Self-Regulation in Context (Applied Linguistics in Action), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 266:

There’s a lot of junk on the internet, but one Twitterism that I find worthwhile is #firstworldproblems.

2018, Lindsay Schlegel, Don’t Forget to Say Thank You and Other Parenting Lessons That Brought Me Closer to God, Ave Maria Press, →ISBN, page 16:

Text speak and the rise of twitterisms like this one (In My Honest Opinion) are causing all sorts of difficulties for grammar and spelling purists.

2018, Tamara Bibby, The Creative Self: Psychoanalysis, Teaching and Learning in the Classroom (Foundations and Futures of Education), Routledge, →ISBN:


unpaywalled

They also have not bothered to read the unpaywalled abstract of this new paper, which says […]

2014, Rud Istvan, Blowing Smoke: Essays on Energy and Climate:

The correction is maximal in availability, as it appears unpaywalled online, but minimal in credit, since none of the authors whose works are unreferenced or under-referenced are identified.

2018, M. V. Dougherty, Correcting the Scholarly Record for Research Integrity, page 171:

Today, Cornell LII serves over thirty million unique visitors each year as one of the main unpaywalled, comprehensive sources of legal information in the United States.


mobik

Borrowed from Russian мо́бик (móbik), from моб(илизо́ванный) (mob(ilizóvannyj), “mobilized”) + -ик (-ik, diminutive suffix).

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мобилизо́ванный

моб(илизо́ванный)

"The video was posted on and being reposted by pro-Wagner channels, which matches Prigozhin's 'Fire Shojgu' narrative...Also some Wagner patches are visible on it. Nearly all 'poor mobiks' (mobilized men) on the video wear balaclavas," Krutov wrote.

2022 October 6, Isabel van Brugen, “Putin Has 'Lost Control' as Infighting Breaks Out Among Russia's Elite”, in Newsweek:

The Defense Ministry has pumped out a stream of videos showing happy "mobiks," as the recruits are known in Russian slang, learning to shoot, attack tanks, tie a tourniquet, plant a land mine and other military tasks.

2022 October 16, Neil MacFarquhar, “'Coffins Are Already Coming': The Toll of Russia's Chaotic Draft”, in The New York Times:

(informal, derogatory, Internet, military, sometimes humorous) A Russian conscript during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, especially a young man with little to no fighting experience.


macroinfluencer

From macro- (“large”) + influencer (“influential person on social media”).

Coordinate term: microinfluencer

The events of that year […] were “ultimately accelerations to industrial shifts that had been percolating for some time — long overdue bookends, perhaps, to an era wherein the thin, white, heterosexual, wealthy and apolitical macroinfluencer set the standards,” Hund writes.

2023 February 1, Jessica Grose, “Tired: Organized Fridges. Wired: Shoe Boxes in the Kitchen.”, in The New York Times:

(social media) An Internet celebrity with a large following on a social media platform.


cascading style sheet

en-noun

cascading style sheet (plural cascading style sheets)

Conversely, one cascading style sheet can be applied to a potentially infinite number of Web pages, giving Web page authors heretofore unknown ease of application of style across that potentially infinite number of pages.

1998, Peter Belesis, Dynamic HTML Unleashed, 2nd edition, Sams.net Publishing, →ISBN, page 62:

His prose is a cascading style sheet of aperçus.

2006 May 20, Toby Litt, “In with IT crowd”, in The Times, archived from the original on 2021-10-21:

You will also need to add a cascading style sheet (CSS) by producing the following file in an editor and saving it in the same file as your “hello.xml”: hello {display: block; font-size: 30pt; font-weight: bold;}

2009, J.D. Applen, Rudy McDaniel, The Rhetorical Nature of XML: Constructing Knowledge in Networked Environments, New York, N.Y., London: Routledge, →ISBN, page 47:

In addition to cookies, advertisers can use a computer’s IP address to determine a user’s geographic location, can use invisible “web bugs” to monitor activity and can look at an individual’s browser history by using JavaScript or a cascading-style-sheet technique.

2011 November 21, Deborah M. Todd, “Internet tracking: As more advertisers monitor every click of your mouse, should someone monitor the monitoring?”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, volume 85, number 113, page A-8:

A theme must have at least one cascading style sheet.

2013, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, Professional WordPress® Design and Development, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 214:

(web design) A stylesheet in Cascading Style Sheets format.


ISC

ISC License

Internet Systems Consortium
w:Internet Systems Consortium

(Internet) Initialism of Internet Systems Consortium.


BeReal

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From be real, intended as a play on words: its primary reference relates to its focus on users uploading unpolished photos, while also being a pun on the term B-reel. The app was developed by Alexis Barreyat, a former employee of GoPro, and Kevin Perreau.

A French programmer and entrepreneur created the social media app BeReal in 2020 to combat what he saw as an increasingly unhealthy and materialistic social media landscape. Seemingly out of nowhere, BeReal has made its way to college campuses.

2022 April 6, Carson Lott, “New social media app asks users to ‘BeReal’”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), archived from the original on 2023-09-30:

And it’s been successful, with about 40 million installs of BeReal this year alone, according to data from Apptopia, which tracks and analyzes mobile app performance.

2022 October 13, “On BeReal, is it possible to actually be real?”, in CNN:

But on BeReal this is much harder to do as users will be notified how many retakes it took to get the perfect shot. They will also be notified if the photographs are late in being posted.

2022 April 8, “Five Facts to Know About BeReal App”, in Yahoo! Sports:

People may have grown tired of BeReal’s authenticity facade. […] BeReal held a mirror – or at least a front-facing camera – up to its users, encouraging reflection on our self-presentations.

2023 May 4, Ysabel Gerrard, “BeReal is now in freefall. Why are new social media apps doomed to fail?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 2023-05-04:

(social media) A French social media app, released in 2020, which prompts users once each day to take photos of whatever they are doing using the front and back cameras of their phones, that received Apple's iPhone App of the Year in 2022.


BeReal

Once a day you get a notification from the app. It tells you that it's time to post your BeReal for the day and you have two minutes to do so. […] Users can also see where their friends are on a map and discover other publicly posted BeReals.

2022 April 16, Wynne Davis, “BeReal is Gen Z's new favorite social media app. Here's how it works”, in NPR:

While scrolling through BeReals in the past few weeks, I’ve occasionally felt gripped by loneliness. Seeing others partying, hanging out with friends, or curled up on the couch with their significant others, framed as everyday slices of life, elicited a more intense fear of missing out than I’ve ever felt on Instagram.

2022 May 13, R. E. Hawley, “BeReal and the Fantasy of an Authentic Online Life”, in The New Yorker:

BeReal is driven by the desire to be "authentic" online, which is oxymoronic even on the app itself. For example, you can post late BeReals when you actually want to document your current surroundings, and you can retake photos as well.

2022 August 13, Anna Iovine, “Why are BeReal selfies so unflattering?”, in Mashable:

This BeReal is going to be epic. Worshippers in the seats around me swipe open the app, hold their phones high, and angle for the perfect two-way shot that will frame their selfies with the famous figure who brought them here tonight: Sadie Robertson Huff—reality star, mega-influencer, and America’s foremost spiritual ambassador for feminine submission.

2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:

What happens to your BeReal after you post it?
All of your BeReals are archived for you to see. One of the best features of BeReal is being able to see a collection of your daily posts.

2024 January 26, Sabrina Ortiz, “What is BeReal? Everything to know about this unfiltered social media app”, in ZDNet Business, archived from the original on 2024-01-26:

(social media) A post published on the French social media app BeReal, consisting of photos from both the front and back cameras of a user's phone, providing a visual depiction of what they are doing in that moment.


metasite

(Internet) A website consisting of hyperlinks to, or commentary on, other websites.


fluffle

Added to the Wikipedia article Rabbit on 30 July 2007.

Overhead, the late-day sky wore a ruby blush and puffy clouds scurried east like a fluffle of pink rabbits.

2017, D. Wallace Peach, Kari's Reckoning:

the camera follows Tate leaping into the arms of Steve McQueen, then floating through a fluffle of bunnies before joining a gyrating throng of revelers on the grotto pool deck

2021, Scott R. Burson, All about the Bass:

(informal, collective) A group of rabbits.


Voice over NR

Short for Voice over New Radio, from 5G New Radio, fifth-generation radio access technology. Compare VoIP, from Voice over Internet Protocol.

Though voice services will be made available initially via Voice over LTE (VoLTE) service on 4G network, eventually voice services in 5G, referred to as Voice over NR (VoNR), is expected to be next revenue stream for the operator.

2019, Kashmira Kapoor, Dandra Prasad Basavaraj, Shrinath Ramamoorthy, Tushar Vrind, “Novel method for increased power conservation in voice over nr (vonr) devices”, in EAI Endorsed Transactions on Cloud Systems, volume 5, page e7:

Voice over NR is voice over IP incorporating the IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) infrastructure previously introduced in LTE.

2021 July 14, “Why voice over 5G relies heavily on LTE”, in 5G Technology World:

Voice over LTE (VoLTE) and Voice over NR (VoNR), are two similar technologies that have been widely deployed by operators to provide a better calling experience in LTE and 5G networks, respectively.

2023 January 6, Zishuai Cheng, Mihai Ordean, Flavio D. Garcia, Baojiang Cui, Dominik Rys, “Watching your call: Breaking VoLTE Privacy in LTE/5G Networks”, in arXiv:

(Internet, mobile telephony) A 5G high-speed wireless communication standard for mobile phones and data terminals, including Internet of things (IoT) devices and wearables.


Gettr

Blend of get + together, coined by company founder Jason Miller in 2021.

A writer for Salon posted screenshots on Twitter of several GETTR profiles, including those of former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Miller himself, that were altered to read “JubaBaghdad was here, follow me in twitter :), ^^ free palestine ^^.”

2021 July 5, Aaron Reich, “Trump-affiliated Twitter rival ‘GETTR’ hacked on launch day”, in The Jerusalem Post, online edition:

Twitter look-alike app Gettr bills itself as a platform which is “defending free speech” & has become a safe space for divisive personalities & those spreading conspiracies about COVID-19 & President Joe Biden’s family.

2022 May 15, Echo Hui, Ariel Bogle, “Inside the secret chat rooms censoring critics on a pro-Trump ‘free speech’ social media app”, in ABC Premium News (wire feed), Sydney:

Gettr has proven to be popular in Brazil, and the platform may have played a role in the lead-up to a recent attack on Brazil’s Congress by supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who has an account on the platform.

2023 February 1, “Key facts about Gettr”, in Pew Research Center:

An exiled Chinese tycoon indicted in New York earlier this month in a billion-dollar fraud case controls the conservative social media platform Gettr and used it to promote cryptocurrencies and propaganda, former employees have told The Washington Post.

2023 March 26, Joseph Menn, “Indicted Chinese exile controls Gettr, ex-employees say”, in The Washington Post, page A3:

(Internet, social media, politics, neologism) An alt-tech social media platform and microblogging site targeting American conservatives.


Wrath Month

Originated as a Twitter meme in 2018, as a play on pride and wrath as two of the seven deadly sins.

Now that you know it exists, you might be wondering how to celebrate. Lucky for you, we’ve assembled a handy list of activities for Wrath Month newcomers to dig into, so you can celebrate and frighten as many Trump supporters as possible.

2018 July 5, John Paul Brammer, “After Pride Comes Wrath Month — Here's How to Celebrate”, in Them:

July 1 marks the beginning of the lesser-known but increasingly-relevant Wrath Month. In the face of so much hate, queer folks are fighting back on their own terms.

2022 July 3, Erin Rook, “This Week on LGBTQ Twitter: Prepare for Queer Wrath Month”, in LGBTQ Nation:

(Internet, social media, neologism) The month after Pride Month; an occasion to call attention to LGBT issues.


e-postcard

(Internet) A computerized postcard, sent by electronic means; an e-card.


Fleabag era

Coined with reference to Fleabag, a British dark comedy television series centering on an angry, impulsive anti-heroine, in combination with the TikTok trend of referring to a life phase as an era (compare flop era).

Coming out of my own ‘Fleabag era’ was the best thing I’ve done for my mental health.

2022 January 25, Saskia Kirkegaard, “Why Being In Your 'Fleabag Era' Isn't A Flex: The Romanticisation Of Women's Suffering On TikTok”, in That's What She Said:

A cheekily named “era” undercuts whatever hardship gives it shape: Why say you’re overwhelmed by grief, money troubles or loneliness (sad, embarrassing) when you could be in your “Fleabag era” (chic, cool)?

2022 August 22, Jessica M. Goldstein, “Down and out and extremely online? No problem: Just enter a new ‘era.’”, in The Washington Post:

I will no longer be in my Fleabag era, and I refuse to be a woman deranged. I will love this world. I implore you to do the same.

2023 February 6, Menal Siddiqui, “The End of My Fleabag Era”, in Unpublished Zine:

(Internet slang) A period in a woman's life characterized by cynicism, despondency, and self-destructive behaviour.


dead internet theory

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Obviously, the internet is not a government psyop, even though the Department of Defense had a role in its invention. But if it were, the most compelling evidence to me is the dead-internet theory's observation that the same news items about unusual moon-related events seem to repeat year after year.

2021 August 31, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Maybe You Missed It, but the Internet 'Died' Five Years Ago”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2023-02-13:

The Dead Internet theory never said that humans do not have accounts. It made an entirely different point: that most accounts are bot accounts.

2022, David Sinclair, The Church of the Serpent: The Philosophy of the Snake and Attaining Transcendent Knowledge, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN:

He told me about the dead internet theory, and about how some German hackers in 2016 found out that only 3% of humans get 90% of all internet traffic.

2022, Thorsten J. Pattberg, The Menticide Manual: How To Destroy The Mind, New York, N.Y.: LoD Press, →ISBN, page 37:

And not only does Dead Internet Theory suggest that the internet is slowly being controlled by bots, but also that it learns your habits and thoughts, tailoring an echo chamber for you. It could even include reactionary bots to craft a digital world of opposing opinions.

2022 September 24, Isaiah McCall, “"The Dead Internet Theory" is New and Spreading Everywhere”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2022-12-23:

A conspiracy theory claiming that the vast majority of content that people interact with on the Internet has been produced by bots rather than actual humans.


back-seat moderator

back-seat moderator (plural back-seat moderators)

Formed by analogy with back-seat driver.

(Internet) A user who is not a moderator but zealously identifies and polices rule-breaking by others.


divorced guy energy

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Adapted from big divorce energy with reference to the stereotype of men reacting to divorce more negatively than women.

Elon Musk shot off a car into a void, a reeking-of-divorced-guy-energy Jeff Bezos recently announced he was into space colonies, and now NASA is planning on letting private companies sell extremely expensive tickets to the International Space Station.

2019 June 7, Harry Cheadle, “A Few Ideas for Those Rich People Who Have More Money Than They Can Spend”, in Vice:

On this chaotic, overstuffed record, West’s divorced-guy energy cannot hide his declining artistry.

2021 August 31, Elliot Hoste, “Kanye West enters his dad-rap era with new album Donda”, in New Statesman:

The Democrats’ Senate hopeful exudes a profound melancholy

2022, Cockburn, "Tim Ryan has big ‘divorced guy’ energy", The Spectator, 1 November 2022 (used in title only)

(slang, derogatory) A psychological state stereotypically characteristic of a recently-divorced man, often conceptualized as being pathetically arrogant or tryhard while also filled with anger, resentment, or melancholy.


Glup Shitto

From a September 2020 post by Tumblr user gomjabbar lampooning hardcore Star Wars fans and Star Wars character names: "every time a new Star War^([sic]) movie or show is announced all the fans are like 'OMG Glup Shitto is back 😭😭😭'.
Probably derived from shit, referring to the supposed poor quality of the new characters.

When it works well, Mank feels like the inheritance and renovation of a range of craft competencies and attentions. And when it does not work well, it is the classical Hollywood nerd’s version of Glup Shitto. “OMG Ben Hecht is back!” Sometimes it does both at once.

2021 May 9, J. D. Connor, “Put Some 'Mank' on It”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:

'The Book of Boba Fett' is a good example of this joke containing a few grains of truth. Boba Fett was, after all, the original Glup Shitto. He turned up in all of maybe three major scenes in 'The Empire Strikes Back' and 'Return of the Jedi', died by accident, and was written off in the movies.

2022 June 1, Brian Lloyd, “This week's 'Obi-Wan Kenobi' sees the return of a familiar helmet”, in Entertainment.ie:

I also questioned what characters might show up in this series, and while we haven’t seen a true Glup Shitto yet, we do get a reference to Quinlan Vos, a Jedi from the “Star Wars” novels who then appeared in “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”

2022, Brandon Raglow, "Review | Episode three of ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ brings the Jedi master face to face with a certain former Padawan", The Pitt News (University of Pittsburgh), 8 June 2022

(Star Wars fandom slang, vulgar, derogatory) Any minor Star Wars character or one who features primarily in Extended Universe media unknown to casual fans.


Tumblr sexyman

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From Tumblr, referencing the microblogging platform and social network, and sexy + man.

The most iconic Tumblr sexymen of all Tumblr sexymen: The Onceler. Oh my god did the Onceler take Tumblr by its neck and wring it until it died horribly. I have never seen such a trend.

2021, Belle, "Tumblr Sexymen: A Never-Ending Cycle of Questionable Taste", LOCO Mag, 2 August 2021

“Timothee Chalamet Willy Wonka is what happens when a Hollywood focus group tries to create a Tumblr sexyman,” another remarked, referencing the famous 2010s blogging site.

2021, Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, quoted in Andrew Court, "Twitter slams Timothée Chalamet’s ‘sexification’ of Willy Wonka", New York Post, 11 October 2021

Congratulations, Lucifer Morningstar, on joining the esteemed ranks of Tumblr Sexymen like Alastor, The Once-ler, Bill Cipher of "Gravity Falls," Waluigi, King Dice of "Cuphead," and for some reason, Sans from "Undertale."

2022 December 1, BJ Colangelo, “Why Animation Fans Are Going Wild For Hazbin Hotel's King Of Hell Read More”, in Slash Film:

(fandom slang) A male fictional character (often conventionally unattractive or non-human) with a particularly devoted fanbase on Tumblr.

Papyrus (Undertale)
Sans (Undertale)
Undertale


main character

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With his Jill Biden essay, Joseph Epstein became Twitter’s main character this month.

2020, Paul Farhi, "How the dusty old op-ed pages became the red-hot outrage-generating machine of 2020", The Washington Post, 28 December 2020 (image caption)

Unless you’re in the business of receiving hate clicks for profit, you never want to be the “main character” of Twitter.

2021 January 5, Dani Di Placido, “The Ballad Of ‘Bean Dad’ Shows The Cruel, Petty Side Of Twitter”, in Forbes:

And while Trump, at least, now faces a reckoning over his most consequential tweets via the January 6 hearings, one final way to understand Elon Musk as our new main character is to consider the internet that has incentivized the rise of both men.

2022 July 14, Delia Cai, “How Elon Musk Became the Internet’s New Main Character”, in Vanity Fair:

(Internet slang, idiomatic) A person who becomes a focal point of discussion on a social media platform (particularly Twitter).


ASN

autonomous system number
autonomous system number#English

(telecommunications networking, Internet) Initialism of autonomous system number.


TikTokification

Even before Zuckerberg doubled down on it Wednesday, the increasing TikTokification of Instagram was stirring users’ ire.

2022 July 27, Brian Contreras, “Facebook is in trouble. Its escape plan: Turn into TikTok”, in Los Angeles Times:

The process of becoming more like TikTok.

Detractors might say that 30-second songs can only say so much, and that they only contribute to the TikTokification of youth culture.

2020, Lance Conzett, "Best Hip-Hop EP: Lackhoney, Sweets", Nashville Scene, 15 October 2020 - 28 October 2020, page 124

If we’re looking at the long road of the TikTokification of crime stories, the case of the Idaho murders marks a juncture where online theories have begun to regularly crystallize into real-world consequences.

2023 January 19, Delia Cai, “In the Age of TikTok, True Crime Goes Live”, in Vanity Fair:

The process of being influenced by TikTok.


KinkTok

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KinkTok is also helping to accurately reflect what a kinky relationship really “looks” like.

2020 August 27, Sophie Wilson, “KinkTok is Filling the Void Left Behind By NSFW Tumblr”, in Vice:

Kinktok was a major awakening for many people, myself included.

2022, Anonymous, "The Wonderful World of Kinktok", Ram! (Lincoln University), March 2022, page 24

With the growth of Kinktok came backlash which instead of focusing on the community as a whole, focused on specific creators or fetishes that they deemed unacceptable and taboo.

2022, Nic Cloyd, "Anti-Pornography Feminism, KinkTok, and Consent: What We Can Learn from The Sex Wars and Leather/Sadomasochistic History", thesis submitted to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on 9 March 2022, page 23

(Internet slang) The community of kinksters and BDSM enthusiasts on TikTok.


enshittification

/ɪnˌʃɪtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

/ɛnˌʃɪtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

From en- (“caused”) + shittification (“becoming shitty”). As a designation for a particular phenomenon affecting online platforms, coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2022.

coin

Ultimately, it doesn't matter if Amazon's enshittification is because [Jeff] Bezos was a cynic or because he sold out. Once Amazon could make more money by screwing its customers, that screw-job became a fait accompli.

2022 November 28, Cory Doctorow, “How monopoly enshittified Amazon”, in Pluralistic, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:

Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification

2023 January 28, Cory Doctorow, “The 'Enshittification' of TikTok”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2024-01-20:

Both switching costs and network effects tend to lead to enshittification because platform providers see early adopters as an investment in future profits.

2023 March 3, Tim Harford, “The enshittification of apps is real. But is it bad?”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-05:

But it's not just users who are effectively incarcerated by enshittification. The advertisers and vendors who are the real customers of tech platforms are also prisoners.

2023 March 11, John Naughton, “Users, advertisers – we are all trapped in the 'enshittification' of the internet”, in The Observer, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-19:

Musk perceived instantly that he had one of the perfect conditions for enshittification. Twitter had a multi-million-strong user base, who had built up relationships and reputations among themselves over years.

2023 November 25, Jane Cassidy, “Matheson might just be the latest victim of ongoing ‘platform decay’”, in The National, Glasgow, page 20:

(neologism, Internet, vulgar) The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits.


darkest timeline

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Referencing the episode "Remedial Chaos Theory" (2011) of the sitcom Community, which depicts seven alternate universes resulting from a die roll to decide which friend should collect a pizza delivery, including "The Darkest Timeline" in which chaos and destruction ensue.

I still can't believe that there is a President Trump and this really does feel like the darkest timeline, but there is nothing that can be done.

2016 November 17, Mandy Marciniak, “President Trump? Really?”, in The Frontenac Gazette, Frontenac, ON, page 11:

You know we're in the darkest timeline when there are multimillion-dollar corporations roleplaying as people working through a depressive episode.

2019 February 19, Jordan Levy, “Parodying people for profit: When brands act like one of us”, in The Daily Targum, Rutgers University, page 8:

Living as we all do now in The Darkest Timeline™, it's tough to come up with a plot that exceeds the implausibility and dystopia of reality.

2019, Jessica Bryce Young, in "Selections", Orlando Weekly, 13 March 2019 - 19 March 2019, page 43

(Internet slang, humorous) The circumstances of the present moment in history, viewed as bleak, frightening, ridiculous, or the worst of all possibilities.

Community (TV series)
Remedial Chaos Theory


worst timeline

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Millennials/Gen-Xers like me […] may feel like we're living in quite possibly the worst timeline, where the economy is uncertain, politicians are lying to us, and it seems radical groups are running amok and gaining notoriety in the process.

2018, Emily Prokop, The Story Behind: The Extraordinary History Behind Ordinary Objects, unnumbered page:

It’s like when people on Twitter said that “this is the worst timeline” in response to Jeff Bezos likely becoming the first trillionaire because of COVID.

2021 May 2, Johnny Hayes, “Commentary: Wrestling with the ghosts of COVID past”, in The San Diego Union-Tribune:

I had high hopes for 2021, after a year that fundamentally changed our way of life. I thought vaccines would bring life back to normalcy by now. That obviously didn't happen. As with any situation, there are two sides to the story. A pessimistic view would suggest that this continues to be the worst timeline. But I want to be optimistic for once.

2021 September 29, Jennifer Sun, “In-Person Event Planning: Expect the Unexpected”, in UltraVires, University of Toronto, page 21:

darkest timeline
darkest timeline#English

(Internet slang, humorous) Synonym of darkest timeline.


interblag

Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2006 in his webcomic xkcd as a spoof of Internet jargon. Equivalent to inter- + blag (“blog”).

I heard about it on the interblag!

2006 November 8, Randall Munroe, “Interblag”, in xkcd, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:


Usenetian

Now imagine that someone wanders into your house and starts loudly lecturing your about the miraculous benefits of vitamin C. You would probably, being a polite Usenetian, ask this person to leave.

1994 April 23, Andrew Lias, alt.atheism (Usenet):

lol, Derek, thanks for the window-washing. I can see more clearly now that the dust is gone. Hi, you Usenetian, you...

2000 March 15, zoe_a...@my-deja.com, “OZONE layer -- its history?”, in talk.origins (Usenet), retrieved 2023-03-21:


conneg

While this is very useful to help service different types of clients, it's not the main purpose of conneg.

2009, Bill Burke, RESTful Java with JAX-RS, page 115:

In this exercise, you will override conneg and let ASP.NET Web API use the media formatter that you specify to serialize the resource.

2013, Badrinarayanan Lakshmiraghavan, Practical ASP.NET Web API, page 66:

content negotiation
w:content negotiation

(Internet) Abbreviation of content negotiation.


Wikimania

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At the Wikimania conference this weekend in Stockholm, the Wikimedia Foundation signed a first-of-its-kind partnership with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

2019 August 16, Stephen Harrison, “Wikimania to the Rescue”, in Slate:

(Wikimedia jargon) An annual gathering of Wikimedians.


namesearch

en-verb

namesearch (third-person singular simple present namesearches, present participle namesearching, simple past and past participle namesearched)

namesearches (present singular third-person)
namesearching (participle present)
namesearched (participle past)
namesearched (past)

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Ricky Gervais namesearches himself and that's the funniest thing he does

2018 March 17, Ratio Hornblower (@OneStrawShort), Twitter:

You know Elon is namesearching himself in Slack and writing down names of people who make fun of him.

2022 November 15, Adam Ellis (@adamtotscomix), Twitter:

Imagine being a gazillionaire and namesearching yourself on Twitter, how sad is that

2022 November 29, Chaotina (@dankestofbread), Twitter:

(Internet slang) To search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it.


millennial pause

en-noun

millennial pause (plural millennial pauses)

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Apparently, I'm still guilty of the "Millennial pause." After hitting "Record," I wait a split second before I start speaking, just to make sure that TikTok is actually recording.

2022 August 6, Kate Lindsay, “Are You Sure You’re Not Guilty of the ’Millennial Pause’?”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-31:

Ekin-Su doesn't flatten herself to widen her appeal to audiences. It's even more obvious, now that she's out of the villa, that she had minimal IG career aspirations going in — she and Davide both are endearingly bad at social media (check Ekin's IG Story and you're likely to find millennial pauses, the comic sans font, and 2012-style selfie angles).

2022 August 16, Katja Vujić, “An Ode to Ekin-Su, TV's Best Reality Star”, in The Cut, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

(Internet, social media, neologism) A brief pause taken by someone between starting a video recording of themselves and beginning to speak, said to be characteristic of millennials (people born around the 1980s and 1990s).


blogrolling

One feature that some argue may help increase a blogger's credibility is “blogrolling” – or hyperlinking to bloggers' favorite sites. Blogrolling can be used as a credibility assessment component.

2011, Gavin Jocius, The Age of Annoyance, page 63:

Blogrolling is similar to adding friends, but possibly more significant.

2014, Biz Stone, Who Let the Blogs Out?, page 101:

(Internet) The practice of a blogger listing hyperlinks to other recommended blogs.


super-app

From super + app. Attested from a 2010 speech by BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis at Mobile World Congress (see quotations below).

We think these applications are so compelling that we just don't call them apps. We call them super apps. Super apps are integrated with other apps, giving you a seamless experience across the device.

2010 February, 10:25, in Mobile World Congress 2010 Keynotes: Mike Lazaridis, President, Co-CEO, RIM, spoken by Mike Lazaridis:

However, despite increased interest from tech players, it is the financial sector that strongly gravitates towards the super app approach. In particular, the newly-emerged digital banks and FinTech players are at full speed ahead into transforming their ecosystem of services into open banking marketplaces.

2019 October 18, “Introducing Super App: a New Approach to All-in-One Experience”, in Infopulse:

LINE and the regional convergences of super apps in East Asia are a potent reminder of the need to analyze platforms outside of the bi-polar hegemony of the United States versus Chinese tech world—which increasingly frames journalistic discourse and academic research—and of the need to attend to the historical and regional particularities of platforms and their cultural impacts.

2020 June 19, Marc Steinberg, “LINE as Super App: Platformization in East Asia”, in Social Media + Society, volume 6, number 2, →DOI:

The Tata super app, due to be launched on April 7, will bring about a potential 10-fold increase in the number of customers for Westside, which is the group's retail store chain, Tata Trusts director Noel Tata has said.

2022 April 5, Chaitali Chakravarty, “Super App may Grow Westside Reach by 10x”, in The Economic Times, New Delhi:

He could well be eyeing something along the lines of the hugely successful Chinese app WeChat. That's a kind of "super app" which incorporates a lot of different services including messaging, social media, payments and food orders—there is as yet no such thing in the west.

2022 October 5, Zoe Kleinman, “Elon Musk, Twitter and the mysterious X app”, in BBC News:

(technology, Internet) A mobile or web application that can provide multiple services.


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Likely from Bible verses such as Revelation 4:8 describing angels as having many eyes and wings; such depictions are said to be more "accurate" than humanoid ones. Popularized around 2019-2020.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see biblically, accurate.


megainfluencer

This BeReal is going to be epic. Worshippers in the seats around me swipe open the app, hold their phones high, and angle for the perfect two-way shot that will frame their selfies with the famous figure who brought them here tonight: Sadie Robertson Huff—reality star, mega-influencer, and America’s foremost spiritual ambassador for feminine submission.

2022 November 8, Allison Theresa, “Sadie Robertson Huff Preaches Submissive Womanhood. Her Message Is Uncomfortably Compelling.”, in Cosmopolitan:

One site, PearPop.com, hooks TikTok or Instagram influencers up with fans to create duetted or stitched videos that fans pay for. This can be an effective way to build followers fast.⁹ Model Leah Svoboda added 120,000 followers after a PearPop duet with megainfluencer Anna Shumate.¹⁰

2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

(social media) An Internet celebrity with a very large following on a social media platform (especially someone with more than 1 million followers).


terminally online

en-adj

terminally online (comparative more terminally online, superlative most terminally online)

more terminally online (comparative)
most terminally online (superlative)

SNL and other late-night outlets have fitfully tried to evolve by hiring social-media-trained talents and targeting some sketches toward the terminally online crowd.

2023 September 27, Spencer Kornhaber, “The Weirdos Living Inside Our Phones”, in The Atlantic:

(informal, derogatory) Spending an inordinate amount of time on the Internet.


memehood

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And hence the actual details of the representing are sometimes just as much a candidate for memehood as the content represented.

1995, Daniel C[lement] Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, →ISBN, page 359:

Then the innocent question hit meme-hood, being applied to every new computer or gadget in the news.

2008 September 15, Mark Milian, “New ‘Crysis’ has same issues”, in Chicago Tribune, 162nd year, number 259, page 3, columns 1–2:

This exercise in surrealism was destined for memehood.

2014, William Poundstone, Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody, →ISBN:

[…] I’m fascinated by the response to the video, by its eternal life in online memehood.

2017, Anthony Palumbi, Blood Plagues and Endless Raids: A Hundred Million Lives in the World of Warcraft, Chicago Review Press, →ISBN:

Key ingredients for memehood, generally, are the rapid and spontaneous sharing of the thing and some sort of cultural context.

2021 June 17, Stefanie Pettit, “Navigating the meme streets of social media”, in The Spokesman-Review, 139th volume, number 9, page N4, column 1:

The original Steamed Hams scene appeared on a Simpson’s^([sic]) episode from the 1990s, and somehow developed a cult following by its reruns, that turned it into a meme. It’s been reworked into fanfiction and fully reanimated in the style of 1960s Soviet cartoons. It’s been overdubbed with opera and recut to resemble a Criterion Collection DVD of a François Truffaut movie. There’s embroidery of it. It’s surpassed memehood and become an artistic movement of its own.

2023 March 19, Talia Felix, “Steaming a Good Ham”, in Online Etymology Dictionary, archived from the original on 2023-03-20:


pornbot

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As I learned, they [furries] are protective about their communities, as well they should be. Otherwise these worlds would be overrun with trolls and pornbots and idiots whose sole purpose is to cause trouble.

2005, Regina Lynn, The Sexual Revolution 2.0, page 125:

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, which is the new owner of MySpace, could go bankrupt (wishful thinking), or, more likely, could allow the site to be overrun with ads, spam, or pornbots posing as humans.

2009, David Mathison, Be the Media: How to Create and Accelerate Your Message...Your Way, page 104:

I probably identify 50 new followers as pornbots every week. Twitter gives you two options for dealing with this kind of annoyance. You can “Block @name” or “Report @name for spam.”

2013, Shelly Palmer, Digital Wisdom: Thought Leadership for a Connected World, page 32:

(Internet) An automated account on a social-media platform that spams users with advertisements for pornographic content or sexual services.


core update

For example, in June 2018 a core update rolled out video carousels in search results, giving the likes of YouTube immediate spikes in their rankings.

2020, Damian Ryan, Understanding Digital Marketing […] , Kogan Page Publishers, →ISBN, page 271:

(SEO) A significant change to Google's search algorithms and systems.


whuffie

Coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in the novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom (2003). Popularized by Tara Hunt in the non-fiction book The Whuffie Factor (2009).

coin

On the photo-sharing site Flickr, for example, your whuffie might go up with the number of photos you post, the tags you place on photos, the helpful comments you make about other people's photos, the number of useful galleries you create, and so on.

2010, Mark Durieux, Robert Stebbins, Social Entrepreneurship For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 188:

(Internet, neologism) A type of social capital or reputation, especially within an online community.

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
Tara Hunt


blogiversary

Blog soon begat a whole new generation of techno-neologisms in the blogosphere, where bloggers compile blogrolls, celebrate blogiversaries and suffer from blogorrhea.

[2010 November 11, Ben Zimmer, “Web”, in The New York Times Magazine:

When it comes around again, write a post celebrating your blogiversary..

2015, Charlotte Hodgson, Peter Woodard, Pocket Blogger: Fashion, page 54:

The anniversary of one's first blog post.


metacrap

From meta- + crap. The "metadata" sense was coined by Canadian-British-American blogger, journalist, and science fiction author Cory Doctorow in 2001.

People who refer to the metacrap argument are generally advocating “letting the software sort it out” instead of asking people to explicitly tag everything before making any contribution.

2004, Christian Crumlish, The Power of Many, page 246:

More formally we can say that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.

2008, Duncan Grey, Getting the Buggers to Find Out: Information Skills and Learning How to Learn, page 175:

The contributors may have certain bias and personal agenda (e.g., to allure visitors to a resource) in entering tags not relevant to the resources at all, thus the tags may be a collection of “metacrap” (Doctorow 2001).

2009, Hongwei Zhu, Harris Wu, “Sloppy Tags and Metacrap?: Quality of User Contributed Tags in Collaborative Social Tagging Systems”, in Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009, page 1:

(Internet, derogatory) Low-quality or unreliable metadata.


Googlitis

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Be careful of Google, though. You can diagnose yourself as having every dreadful disease on the planet with just one sniffle. If I'm being honest, my husband had to save me from being carried away by Googleitis more than once.

2019, Rachel C. Swanson, Refine and Restore: Revive Your Heart, Release Your Purpose, New York, NY: FaithWords, →ISBN, page unknown:

(Internet) The excessive use of, or overreliance on, Google (or other search engines), possibly leading to misinformation or impaired critical thinking skills.


shtwt

Among the disturbing statistics in the report is that since October, hashtags related to self-harm such as #shtwt,” which is short for “self-harm Twitter,” have increased roughly 500 percent, the report found.

2022 August 30, Naomi Nix, “Self-harm posts are surging on Twitter, despite breaking content rules”, in The Washington Post:

(Internet slang) The Twitter community of people engaging in self-harm.


birdsite

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From bird + site, referencing Twitter's blue bird logo.

It's a bit more familiar for people moving from "the birdsite," as Mastodon users often call Twitter.

2022 November 14, Stephen Shankland, “I Want to Like Mastodon. The Decentralized Network Isn't Making That Easy”, in CNET:

“I am having a hard time letting go of the birdsite but I was raised by an alcoholic so I understand what a trauma bond is,” the political journalist Ana Marie Cox wrote on journa.host on Nov. 20.

2022 November 21, Joseph Bernstein, “Chaos on Twitter Leads a Group of Journalists to Start an Alternative”, in The New York Times:

Always remember where you are when you're posting. It's easy to fall into bad habits, especially after spending years on the birdsite, also known as Twitter.

2023, Chris Minnick, Michael McCallister, Mastodon for Dummies, page 75:

(Internet slang) The social networking and microblogging platform Twitter.


hard-block

en-verb

hard-block (third-person singular simple present hard-blocks, present participle hard-blocking, simple past and past participle hard-blocked)

hard-blocks (present singular third-person)
hard-blocking (participle present)
hard-blocked (participle past)
hard-blocked (past)

Coordinate term: soft-block

And just last week, I gave my partner the silent treatment for not answering me after five minutes. On social media, all I seem to do is hard-block people left and right, foregoing the soft-block altogether. If I’m not doing that, I leave rude comments with super sassy emojis or direct message my friends with passive-aggressive cat GIFs.

2022 October 27, Paloma Torres, quoting Potentially Petty/Hot Person, “Advice Column: Am I becoming hotter or just pettier? Paloma Torres answers the age-old question constantly on everyone's minds”, in The Eyeopener, volume 56, number 7, page 3:

(Internet, transitive) To permanently block (a user) on social media, as opposed to soft-blocking.


hard-block

Coordinate term: soft-block

Essentially, the users in question would not be prohibited from accessing your profile and tweets like a hard block would trigger. Instead, they will still be able to see your tweets and also send you direct messages. Your presence will be taken off from their news feed.

2021 October 12, Bharat Sharma, “Twitter Lets You 'Soft Block' Insufferable Followers: But Will It Limit Abuse?”, in Indiatimes:


powerwash

powerwash (third-person singular simple present powerwashes, present participle powerwashing, simple past and past participle powerwashed)

powerwashes (present singular third-person)
powerwashing (participle present)
powerwashed (participle past)
powerwashed (past)

Back-formation from powerwasher, equivalent to power + wash.

(technology) To reset a Chromebook or any other ChromeOS device to factory settings, deleting all data from the unit.


direct message

direct message (third-person singular simple present direct messages, present participle direct messaging, simple past and past participle direct messaged)

direct messages (present singular third-person)
direct messaging (participle present)
direct messaged (participle past)
direct messaged (past)


TechToker

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TikTok is famous for its viral pranks, endless wave of memes, and, for me at least, its ability to make an hour disappear by sucking you into a rabbit hole. There are unlimited niche topics to get lost in, but where I often find myself is #TechTok. [see title]

2021 April 14, Jordan Bowman, “The Best Gadgets on TikTok, According to TechTokers”, in The Strategist:

That divide between employees who code and those who work in areas like sales or recruiting is present at some companies, other TechTokers acknowledged, but they also pointed out that the vlogger has at times looked pretty elitist herself; […]

2022 September 4, Steffi Cao, “#WorkingInTech Influencers Are Facing Backlash For Their Glamorous TikToks About The Industry”, in BuzzFeed News:

Francis is just one of many young people who have made a name for themselves on TikTok by sharing their lives as #corporatebaddies, #techgirls, or #techtokers, then found themselves impacted by the mass layoffs sweeping the tech industry.

2023 February 11, Stephanie McNeal, “What Happens When A Corporate TikTok Girlie Gets Laid Off? She Posts Through It.”, in BuzzFeed News:

(Internet slang) A TikToker who makes videos about, discusses, or is otherwise interested in technology.


FoodTok

FoodTok can be a dizzying mash-up of competing birria taco recipes, fufu reviews, and Coca-Cola pot roast recipes passed down from sorority cookbooks. […] On FoodTok, I get to see how people eat and cook in their everyday lives, to peer into virtual kitchen windows like a voyeuristic passerby who just got a whiff of something delicious (or horrifying).

2021 February 9, Hazel Cills, “The Voyeuristic, Hypnotic Pleasure of FoodTok”, in Jezebel:

What does your “For You” page look like on TikTok? Do you watch mostly dance challenges, lip syncs, comedians, travel videos or something else? Have you ever ventured onto food TikTok, or FoodTok? […] Why might someone aspire to be a FoodTok star? Have you ever wanted to become a TikTok celebrity for cooking or something else?

2021 May 28, Nicole Daniels, “Lesson of the Day: ‘TikTok, the Fastest Way on Earth to Become a Food Star’”, in The New York Times:

TikTok recipes – or FoodTok, to use the parlance of the people – are a genre unto themselves. Creators post short videos of (usually) simple recipes that take fairly ordinary, well-trod ingredients (feta, tomatoes) and give them new relevance.

2022 August 5, Lauren Sams, “How TikTok is taking over your kitchen”, in Australian Financial Review:

If you’ve spent any amount of time on FoodTok, then you know there are plenty of creators out there who’ll make your mouth water…but Cedrik Lorenzen is looking to do more than whet your appetite, if ya know what I mean.

2022 August 26, Corinne Sullivan, “TikTok’s Sexy Food Guru Cedrik Lorenzen Is Here to Whet Your Appetite”, in Cosmopolitan:

FoodTok is an infinite recipe book, a source of information, comfort and entertainment, and, at the same time, a disgusting universe of ever more ungodly “hacks”, tricks and challenges. […] Not-so-secret sploshing content resides in the overlapping midpoint of FoodTok’s Venn diagram, with “appealing” on one side and “outrageous” on the other.

2023 April 22, Eloise Hendy, “Dorito casseroles, butter diets and how weird food took over the internet”, in The Independent:

The community of food- and cooking-oriented accounts on TikTok.


rage comic

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Last week, Reddit user CappnPoopdeck posted a "rage comic" depicting a man who, as a joke, takes an unused pregnancy test left behind by his ex-girlfriend, then finds that the test comes back positive.

2012 November 7, Hilary Hanson, “Man Takes Pregnancy Test, Finds Out He Has Testicular Cancer: Reports”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2023-04-30:

He added, “Obama is a smart guy. ‘Okay, so this is how that works, so I type in that name, or now that I’m on Google+, I type in a +, or now that I’m on Reddit, put in a rage comic because that’s funny.’”

2013, James E[verett] Katz, Michael Barris, Anshul Jain, The Social Media President: Barack Obama and the Politics of Digital Engagement, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 99:

Thus, in order to produce and understand LOLCats, users need to master LOLspeak; to create a rage comic, the user requires familiarity with a broad range of new symbols.

2014, Limor Shifman, Memes in Digital Culture (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series), Cambridge, Mass., London: The MIT Press, →ISBN, page 118:

A rage comic features a short sequence of the actions of standard characters and is often about the absurdity or folly of everyday life situations or comments on media occurrences.

2015, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, editor, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 3rd edition, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 3772:

Rage comics were first introduced to China as bàozŏu mànhuà […] in 2008, and have become increasingly popular among Chinese Internet users since then.

2017, Aaron Marcus, Masaaki Kurosu, Xiaojuan Ma, Ayako Hashizume, Cuteness Engineering: Designing Adorable Products and Services, Springer, →ISBN, page 70:

(Internet slang) A short cartoon strip using a growing set of pre-made cartoon faces which usually express rage or some other simple emotion or activity.


minimod

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In becoming TSR moderators (of varying hierarchical status such as supermoderators, global moderators and minimods, further also forum assistants), users are supposed to set a good example for appropriate online behavior as a by-product of their ongoing conversations.

2013, Jenny Arendholz, (In)Appropriate Online Behavior: A pragmatic analysis of message board relations, page 46:

(Internet, rare) A moderator having only limited permissions.


masonry layout

(web design) A tightly-packed columnar layout in which there are no identifiable rows, unlike a uniform grid.


BEAST

(Internet) Acronym of Browser Exploit Against SSL/TLS.


rdr

(Wikimedia jargon) Abbreviation of redirect.


ask me anything

en-noun

ask me anything (plural ask me anythings)

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This style of interview was popularized in the r/IAmA subreddit founded in 2009, where users post prompts for others to ask questions by stating who they are and adding the phrase “Ask me anything!”.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, returned to Reddit this week for an Ask Me Anything that covered everything from net neutrality to memes to the online harassment of women.

2015 March 11, Abby Ohlheiser, “What Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, has to say about Internet harassment”, in The Washington Post:

We volunteer our time to help manage the subsection called IAmA — a popular part of the site where thousands of interviews, known as “ask me anythings,” take place.

2015 July 8, Brian Lynch, Courtnie Swearingen, “Why We Shut Down Reddit’s ‘Ask Me Anything’ Forum”, in The New York Times:

(Internet, often attributively) An online interactive interview in which people can ask the interviewee questions about any topic, typically through the website's comment system.


RARP

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol
w:Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of Reverse Address Resolution Protocol.


wikiphilosophy

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Apart from writing encyclopedia pages, The Cunctator loved to discuss Wikipedia and its policies. He spoke for anarchy (or at least an absence of hierarchy), eventualism (Wikipedia will get there in the end; his pseudonym means 'the delayer') and inclusionism (the wikiphilosophy whose motto could be 'let there be more articles').

2009, Andrew Dalby, The World and Wikipedia: How We Are Editing Reality, Draycott, Somerset: Siduri Books, →ISBN, page 121:

(Wikimedia jargon) A philosophy or system of thought pertaining to the editing of Wikipedia.


eventualism

For some, eventualism is a fancy name for "passing the buck." It is being lackadaisical in doing something right now to fix things. For professional writers, editors, and academics, leaving things in a half-baked state was a clear departure from their comfort zone. But given the masses of wiki, Slashdot, Usenet, and open source software veterans, eventualism remained the prevailing attitude, at least in the early days.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 121:

(Wikimedia jargon) A wikiphilosophy which emphasizes the importance of an article's value in the distant future.


wiki crack

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Then one night he corrected an error in an article about Jewish holidays. You can do that?! It was his first inhalation of Wiki crack. He became one of Wikipedia's earliest registered users and wrote his first article—on Muckleshoot, a Washington State Indian tribe. Since then, he has made more than 16,000 contributions.

2006, Daniel H. Pink, “The Book Ends Here”, in The Best of Technology Writing 2006, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 109:

"You can't talk about it in terms of left and right," explains Corr. "But the whole way it is set up is about inclusivity, community and equality rather than competition and individualism." For the most part, people at the conference didn't talk about it in these terms at all. When the wiki-crack takes over, all you are interested in is your next hit.

2006 August 9, Gary Younge, “Geek nation”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-04-17:

Sites like Wikipedia are more in the middle, perhaps. Maybe people are drawn in by one initial topic and discover wikicrack and turn to a wider range of articles. (I know I have devoted a lot of time to topics I don't actually care about simply because I was wikiaddicted.)

2007 September 30, Brianna Laugher, “[Wiki World] a metric for community”, in Google Groups (Wiki World), archived from the original on 2023-06-11:

Finishing the 3,000 entries kicked off something in Ramsey's pleasure center. He had his first whiff of "wiki-crack," the irreverent jargon Wikipedians have used to describe their addiction. So he set out on the next task—adding 33,832 city articles to Wikipedia.

2009, Andrew Lih, The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia, New York, N.Y.: Hyperion, →ISBN, page 101:

There is something fundamental, almost primordial at work. Some Wikipedians refer to it as "wiki-crack." It's the rush of dopamine that seems to hit the brain's pleasure center when you make a smart edit and it appears instantly in a Wikipedia article.

[2014 October 19, Walter Isaacson, “You Can Look It Up: The Wikipedia Story”, in The Daily Beast, archived from the original on 2022-10-14:

(Wikimedia jargon, humorous) A notional drug, likened to crack cocaine, supposed to cause individuals to become addicted to editing Wikipedia.


nerdity test

(Internet, informal) An online purity test to gauge the taker's nerdiness.


mailbase

From Mailbase, the name of a specific system for this purpose founded in 1989 and used in UK higher education and research.

When you join a mailbase, keep all the information you receive from the administrator about leaving the group. You may find in a short while that you are inundated with email of no interest to you, […]

1998, Pat Maier, Using Technology in Teaching & Learning, page 119:

The development of mass telephone one-to-one communication seemed to have diminished the social custom of handwritten letters. Yet the Internet with email communications facilities has revived the social habit of written though electronic correspondence. Forums and mailbases lead to instant correspondent broadcasts within specific interest areas.

1999, Tim Crook, Radio Drama: Theory and Practice, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 49:

Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.

2011, Judith Flanders, The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime, London: HarperPress, →ISBN, pages 467–468:

(Internet) Synonym of listserv (“electronic mailing list”).


listmember

Coordinate term: listmaster

On an academic list, one listmember responded to a discussion of whether e-messages should be more formal and carefully edited by affirming the pleasures of "reading between the lines" and "seeing a personality profile" emerge from a history of several postings.

2000, Lynn Worsham, Sidney I. Dobrin, Gary A. Olson, editors, The Kinneavy Papers: Theory and the Study of Discourse, Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 256:

In addition, it is, in most cases, not possible to confirm if members are sending side-posts, i.e. messages directly send^([sic]) to other listmembers.

2007, Theo Hug, Didactics of Microlearning, page 161:

(Internet) A recipient of messages from a listserv.


listmaster

Coordinate term: listmember

If an account subscribed to your mailing list ceases to exist, you'll get e-mail to the listmaster for that specific mailing list after every single post that goes out to the list, telling you that particular account no longer exists. You'll definitely want to remove this user from the list.

1996, Dee-Ann LeBlanc, Running a Perfect Internet Site With Linux, Indianapolis, I.N.: Que, →ISBN, page 272:

The script will first ask you to submit an address for the list server's administrator, or "listmaster."

1998, Tom Dell, AppleShare IP, page 316:

(Internet) A person responsible for operating a listserv.


bottom-post

If you don't like to read bottom posts - don't. No one is going to change so let it be.

2001 October 4, Don D., “SkriptKiddie Trying something”, in rec.travel.cruises (Usenet):

(Internet, dated) A post on an online forum whose contents are placed below a quoted message which is being replied to.


bottom-post

en-verb

bottom-post (third-person singular simple present bottom-posts, present participle bottom-posting, simple past and past participle bottom-posted)

bottom-posts (present singular third-person)
bottom-posting (participle present)
bottom-posted (participle past)
bottom-posted (past)

The proper netiquette on this list is to "bottom post," which means that you reply to a previous poster's comments after the original comment.

2004, Rickford Grant, Linux for Non-Geeks, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 294:

(transitive, intransitive, Internet, dated) To make a bottom-post.


bottom-poster

Some argue that bottom posters should be courteous enough to snip quoted material such that one shouldn't have to scroll down to get to their response. Not only doesn't that happen, but if everyone snipped appropriately there would be no functional difference between posting methods.

2002 September 23, Paul Gustafson, “Posting Etiquette”, in sci.astro.amateur (Usenet):

One of the great religious schisms on the internet is between the 'top-posters' and the 'bottom-posters', who have different views on where in the message one should add one's own remarks when replying.

2003, Peter Christian, The Genealogist's Internet, 2nd edition, London: The National Archives, →ISBN, page 211:

Please learn how to become a bottom poster instead of a top poster.

2013 May 15, Jason, “Planned Parenthood targets black women”, in alt.abortion (Usenet):

(Internet, dated) Someone who bottom-posts.


side-post

Probably analogous to top-post and bottom-post.

Enough ecchiness from you. It's a cute shoujo story, which I explain in more detail in a side post.

2001 July 9, L. Gerholz, “[FANFIC]Father's Day at Ohtori”, in alt.fan.utena (Usenet):

As I noted in a side post, teranews doesn't seem to like crossposting.

2007 September 14, Rumpelstiltskin, “Re: Swear him in !”, in soc.senior.issues (Usenet):

In addition, it is in most cases not possible to confirm if members are sending side-posts i.e. messages directly send^([sic]) to other listmembers. The phenomenon of lurkers sending side-posts is described by Katz, who analyses differences between public and private reactions to his postings and articles (Katz, 1998).

2007, Theo Hug, Didactics of Microlearning, Münster […]: Waxmann, →ISBN, page 161:

(Internet, dated) A message sent privately to a single member of a listserv.


side-post

side-post (third-person singular simple present side-posts, present participle side-posting, simple past and past participle side-posted)

side-posts (present singular third-person)
side-posting (participle present)
side-posted (participle past)
side-posted (past)

You even are so far consumed with your self-importance and propensity to bend others to the way you want them to post by telling me that I am now doing the heinous 'top-posting'. If I could figure a way to side post, you would complain about that, too.

2003 May 15, Cass, “RV Hookups and WA state RV Regulatoins”, in alt.rv (Usenet):

Some lurkers side-post: Several participants said they made connections to individuals outside the online groups. These connections are a valid form of communication and have value for the individuals and thus the group as a whole.

2012, Christopher Lueg, Danyel Fisher, From Usenet to CoWebs, London: Springer, →ISBN, page 126:

Lurkers avoid contributing to the chaos and information overload often found in communities, and, by side-posting or contacting individuals directly instead, they are engaging in pro-social and thoughtful altruistic behaviour.

2016, Giuseppe Riva, Brenda K. Wiederhold, Pietro Cipresso, The Psychology of Social Networking, volume 1, Warsaw, Berlin: De Gruyter, →DOI, →ISBN, page 163:

(intransitive, Internet, dated) To send a side-post.


YCH

(Internet) Initialism of your character here. A type of art commission where the artist creates a basic sketch of a scene with the character(s) as blank template(s), allowing for the commissioner to select any character of their choice to fill in the scene.


WikiGnome

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To meet its goal of encapsulating the sum of human knowledge, Wikipedia draws on the talents of different kinds of editors. [Bryan] Henderson is an archetypical WikiGnome, a contributor who specializes in fixing typos, repairing broken links, adding categories and, yes, correcting grammar.

2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-20:

On another front, one of the site's most prolific editors has made thousands of revisions, almost all of them correcting perceived misusages of the phrase "comprised of" across the site's millions of articles. Far from being treated as an eccentric outlier, this editor is celebrated, recognized as an exemplary WikiGnome, a class of editors committed to "tying up little loose ends and making things run more smoothly."

2015 February 18, Jacob Brogan, “Han Solo Shot First”, in The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-02-19:

[Steven] Pruitt considers himself a WikiGnome (according to Wikipedia, "a wiki user who makes useful incremental edits without clamouring for attention"), and he works the gamut, though much of his recent focus is on "authority control" — linking entries to worldwide library catalogues — and especially on categorizing articles.

2018 October 2, Stephen Harrison, “Wikipedia’s top editor is this mild-mannered Virginian”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-02:

(chiefly Wikimedia jargon) A wiki editor (such as Wikipedia) that primarily makes minor and uncontroversial edits such as fixing typos and grammar mistakes.


metapedian

Users also move among different communities as they move from being a new user to an active user, or choose at any stage to exit the platform. Indeed it is not uncommon for many active users and metapedians to suffer burnout.

2015, Kim Osman, Wikipedia: Access and participation in an open encyclopaedia (thesis), Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland University of Technology, page 99:

(Wikimedia jargon) A Wikipedia editor who focuses on the social side of the project, such as participating in discussions or community events, rather than editing articles and contributing content.


screenshort

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Kind of counterintuitively, Screenshorts demonstrate why the 140 character limit is vital. If people began posting massive chunks of text to Twitter, it would no longer be easy to scan. But the Screenshort, working side-by-side with in-line image previews, works perfectly. Click to enlarge and all that.

2014 December 19, Mat Honan, “The Rise Of The Screenshort™”, in BuzzFeed News, archived from the original on 2023-05-30:

We've heard such rumors before, but this one just got a lot more plausible thanks to a cryptic screenshort from Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey.

2016 January 5, Klint Finley, “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Hints Its 140 Character Limit Could End”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:

No more screenshorts

2016 April 12, Casey Newton, “You can now share quoted text directly to Facebook”, in The Verge, archived from the original on 2023-03-23:

(social media, rare) A screenshot of text posted to social media.


power mod

"Once a fairly free site, in the wake of these power mods it has become restricted and apersonal," Rootin-tootin_putin continued in an email to the Daily Dot. "The point of peer moderators was to ensure that the person in charge of a sub was someone who genuinely cares about the topic; these power mods undermine this entirely."

2020 May 19, Colleen Hagerty, “Reddit's top user says he's 'done' after being outed”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2023-01-28:

(Reddit, derogatory) Someone who has a significant amount of influence across Reddit due to being a moderator of many subreddits.


Farker

The Farkers who submit the stories also provide witty commentary.

2007, PC Mag (volume 26, numbers 21-22, page 89)

Farkers didn't invent the phrase, which dates back to a 1996 student newspaper […]

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web:

(Internet) A user of the community website Fark.


twttr

Just received a txt message from a [person] […] Brazil wanting to twttr.

(Internet, dated) To converse on Twitter; to send a tweet.


Plebbit

quoted in 2020, John Bodner, Wendy Welch, Ian Brodie, COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories
Go look at plebbit [reddit], they're fucking hysterical. Screaming for forced vaccinations.


cookie stealer

(Internet) A type of malware that reads private browser cookies.


Mastodonian

(Internet) A user of the decentralized social media platform Mastodon.


old man yells at cloud

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From a scene in the 2002 episode "The Old Man and the Key" of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, in which Grampa Simpson, applying for a driver's license, produces a newspaper clipping with this headline for identification.

I'm incessantly railing, in the old-man-yells-at-cloud tradition, against Big Beautiful Burgers stuffed into wispy buns that leave nothing to the imagination.

2018 February, Liz Cook, “Check-in Time”, in The Pitch, page 26:

If you will allow me an “old man yells at cloud” moment...back in my day, the only tools we had to make documentation were plain ol' spreadsheets, slides, and Word documents.

2020, Matt LeMay, Product Management in Practice, page 148:

Everyone has their own Old-Man-Yells-at-Cloud gripe that they just can't let go. Some people can't get over the fact that some people do (or do not) keep their ketchup in the fridge; other people can't stop themselves ragging on pineapple-topped pizza.

2022, Ruby Tandoh, Cook As You Are: Recipes for Real Life, Hungry Cooks, and Messy Kitchens: A Cookbook, page 131:

(humorous or derogatory) Refers to a person who expresses a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance; especially, with an implication of aged crotchetiness.

Grampa Simpson
The Old Man and the Key
The Simpsons


poor little meow meow

en-noun

poor little meow meow (plural poor little meow meows)

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Emerged from a 2020 viral tweet by a BTS fan apologetically addressing group member Suga (known by the fan nickname "Lil Meow Meow") as "my poor meow meow...my baby my little baby who hurt^([sic]) so much […] ." The tweet was made in response to the controversy over Suga's sampling of a speech by cult leader Jim Jones (1931–1978) on his solo mixtape D-2.

You may have noticed there’s a new trend amongst fans of all kinds of media. Whenever there’s a little sad sack of a man, people will start calling him their “poor little meow meow”—their little baby loser boy, if you will. In other words: a Pathetic Loserman.

2022 September 13, Madeline Carpou, “Allons-y, Make Way for This Year’s “Official Pathetic Loserman!””, in The Mary Sue:

Examples of Poor Little Meow Meows include Breaking Bads Jesse Pinkman, Marvels Loki, Avatar: The Last Airbender's Prince Zuko, and Ice King from Adventure Time.

2022 September 19, Jack Doyle, “Who (Or What) Is Poor Little Meow Meow?”, in The Mary Sue:

Unlike his brothers, Aldo is kind of a lil’ sweetie. I mean, he’s not really a sweetie at all. In Tumblr morality terms, he is more of a Poor Little Meow Meow than he is a true cinnamon roll.

2022 December 11, Jack Doyle, “Aldo And The Three Brothers In ‘Chainsaw Man,’ Explained”, in The Mary Sue:

(fandom slang) A fictional character who is both endearingly pathetic and extremely flawed or villainous.

BTS
D-2 (mixtape)
Jim Jones
Suga (rapper)

baby girl

male morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

Draco in Leather Pants

any morally ambiguous character romanticised by fans

woobie

morally ambiguous character subjected to pain for pathos


Threader

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For those who are especially keen on becoming a 'Threader', the free app can be pre-ordered now and will become available to use upon its official launch tomorrow.

2023 July 5, Naomi May, “Everything You Need to Know About Meta's 'Twitter Killer' App, Threads”, in Elle, archived from the original on 2023-07-08:

On Thursday morning, Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Meta Platforms, which owns Instagram and Facebook, said that 30 million new Threaders have already signed on.

2023 July 6, Hiawatha Bray, “Twitter killer? Here's what to know about Threads, the new app from Meta.”, in The Boston Globe, Boston, M.A.: Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-06:

Ultimately, only time with tell whether mighty Meta will bring Twitter to heel. Until then, I have just one burning question: if Twitterers tweet, what do Threaders do? Sew? Stitch? Needle? Embroider? Answers on a virtual postcard, please.

2023 July 6, “SARAH VINE: Millions have signed up for Mark Zuckerberg's Twitter killer. But if anyone thinks Threads will be less toxic, they're twits!”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-08:

social networking
social networking#Noun

(social media) A user of the social networking app Threads.


Threads

→ French: Threads

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The point of Meta's Threads app is to read and engage in public conversations. On Threads, users can post a "thread" — usually a short piece of text — and other users can "like," repost, or reply to the thread.

2024 April 4, Michelle Mark, “Meta's Threads app: The text-based social media platform from Instagram trying to replace X”, in MSN, archived from the original on 2024-05-28, Business Insider:

A social media platform developed by Meta, integrated into the fediverse.


/ˌeɪ əʊ ˈθɹiː/

/ˌeɪ oʊ ˈθɹiː/

Shortening of the standard acronym of Archive of Our Own (AOOO) to account for the three consecutive Os.

LiveJournal and AO3 rely largely on tags, whilst Fanfiction.net has genre and character filters as well as a keyword search.

2017, Judith May Fathallah, Fanfiction and the Author:How Fanfic Changes Popular Cultural Texts, page 39:

The effect of Tumblr's ephemeral timescape was further exacerbated by many Hockey RPF fans' decision to delete works from the AO3.

2020, Milena Popova, “How Tumblr's Temporal Features Shape Community Memory and Knowledge”, in Allison McCracken, Alexander Cho, Louisa Stein, Indira Neill Hoch, editors, A Tumblr Book: Platform and Cultures, page 89:

Gosh. Where on earth had that come from? She really needed to read less AO3 smut before bed.

2021, Talia Hibbert, Act Your Age, Eve Brown, unnumbered page:

(fandom slang) Abbreviation of Archive of Our Own.


choose violence

en-verb

choose violence (third-person singular simple present chooses violence, present participle choosing violence, simple past chose violence, past participle chosen violence)

chooses violence (present singular third-person)
choosing violence (participle present)
chose violence (past)
chosen violence (participle past)

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According to Know Your Meme, first used in the idiomatic sense in a tweet posted June 21, 2019 by @mtheadnothought: "azealia banks wakes up every morning and chooses violence tbh the dedication is outstanding", itself inspired by line of dialogue in the 2016 Game of Thrones episode "No One" (see I choose violence).

wake up and choose violence

In a post on his Instagram story Thursday, the Saturday Night Live head writer [Michael Che] expressed his desire to "make fun of Simone Biles." In the next post, he wrote: "I got like 3 mins of Simone Biles jokes in my head. I'm going to the cellar tonight to say them into a microphone. As the dorky kids say, I'm choosing violence."

2021 July 30, Tayo Bero, “When Will Michael Che Face Consequences For Punching Down On Black Women?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-07-13:

RuPaul Charles chose violence on this week's episode of Drag Race UK when he chose to eliminate, not one, but two fan-favourite contestants from the competition.

2021 October 29, Sam Damshenas, “Exclusive: Choriza May addresses 'hurtful' RuPaul's Drag Race UK twist”, in Gay Times, London: Gay Times Ltd, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-20:

Still, the broadcast decided to show that Verstappen was leading him by more than 77 seconds. Sharing a snap of the visual, one Twitter user posted: "F1 CHOSE VIOLENCE WITH THIS GRAPHIC."

2022 April 24, Jake Lambourne, “'They chose violence' – Sky Sports F1 'troll' Hamilton as Brit is lapped by Verstappen in Emilia Romagna horror show”, in The US Sun, archived from the original on 2022-05-24:

For Payne's sake, we hope he figures out who he wants to be soon — and that it's not the same man who woke up and chose violence on Logan Paul's podcast.

2022 June 1, Jon Blistein, “Liam Payne Unfortunately Chose Violence While Talking One Direction on Logan Paul's Podcast”, in Rolling Stone, New York, N.Y.: Penske Media Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-08:

I have read enough online listing BS — and watched enough terrible HGTV to make my own realtor's head hurt — that the line between parody and straight-faced is probably permanently blurred for me. The internal adjustments you learn to make to the manic cheerleading for basic structural details—sorry, "charming historical elements"—are a reflex at this point, to say nothing of the eye strain from listings that considered proper capitalization and punctuation and chose violence instead.

2023 January 20, Erin Keane, “A tiny gingerbread house got listed on Zillow for 31 days, and the price felt all too real”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-28:

(Internet slang, humorous, idiomatic) To disrespect or insult someone in a particularly audacious and unexpected manner.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see choose, violence.


dangling link

Earlier hypertext arrangements kept a record of every single link in the system to avoid "dangling links" — links pointing to nothing. But creating the Web at scale meant users would have to be able to delete documents without telling every single other user about the deletion, even if that document was being linked to from elsewhere. Berners-Lee "realized that this dangling-link thing may be a problem, but you have to accept it."

2014 November 12, Alex Fitzpatrick, “4 Things You Might Not Have Known About the World Wide Web's Inventor”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-15:

(Internet) A URL which does not point to any webpage or file; a dead link.


ALSer

Good point. A blanket apology would be a good place to start if he really wants to be an ALSer. […] It will take a year or two to post the HUGE number of apologies he owes ALSers.

1998 February 26, Vince, “Re: Spirituality Survey”, in alt.life.sucks (Usenet):

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.life.sucks.


GeoCity

Back-formation from GeoCities, from geo- + cities.

The place-names (Cape Canaveral, Silicon Valley, Athens, etc.) demarcating GeoCity neighbourhoods, do not stand in relation to each other according to the order of a real geography, but as cultural markers for aligned interest groups.

1999, Caroline Bassett, Chris Wilbert, “Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace”, in David Crouch, editor, Leisure/Tourism Geographies: Practices and Geographical Knowledge, Routledge, published 2006, →ISBN, page 188:

But there are also recorded instances of people ‘marrying' within the ‘community’ of a GeoCity.

1999, Gordon Graham, The Internet: A Philosophical Inquiry, London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 148:

Imagine, now, someone whose sole experience of interacting with others lay, or at least had come to lie, in relationships formed within a GeoCity or virtual community.

2003, Gordon Graham, “Virtual Reality: The Future of Cyberspace”, in Eric Katz, Andrew Light, William Thompson, editors, Controlling Technology: Contemporary Issues, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, part 8 (Computers, Information, and Virtual Reality), page 493:

Anyone, from anywhere in the world, could bond in a GeoCity over anything from blue whales to Baked Alaska, from Mozart to muscle cars.

2015, James Crawford, Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of Twenty Lost Buildings from the Tower of Babel to the Twin Towers, Old Street Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 523:

(Internet, historical) A community of common interests on GeoCities.


Wish.com

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From the domain name of the e-commerce platform Wish, because many poor-quality and counterfeit goods have been sold on it, itself from wish + .com (created as an application that allowed shoppers to create wish lists of their favorite products before matching them with merchants).

When I sit and watch Insidious, I cannot help but smile at the Wish.com version of Darth Maul whom I am supposed to tremble at the sight of.

2021 October 29, Ellie Jurmann, “Horror Movies for Bedtime Stories”, in Post, Providence, RI: Brown University, page 5:

I feel like this concept is the Wish.com version of reincarnation.

2022, Mary Katherine Backstrom, Crazy Joy: Finding Wild Happiness in a World That's Upside Down, unnumbered page:

But ultimately, it's the Wish.com version of a David Lean epic, partway between a pound-shop Kwai and a half-decent episode of Columbo, […]

2022, John Dorney, Jessica Regan, & Tom Salinsky, Best Pick: A Journey Through Film History and the Academy Awards, page 150

(attributive, Internet, slang, derogatory) Used to denote that something is low-quality or an inferior copy.

wishes

used to denote something considered to be low-quality or an inferior copy


semiviral

Almost immediately after the video went semiviral, activist Rosa Clemente mobilized a group of women of color to coauthor and sign a statement denouncing the video, calling for XXL to feature anti–sexual violence content and demanding the firing of then–XXL editor-in-chief, Vanessa Satten.⁴²

2023, Treva B. Lindsey, “Up against the Wind: Intracommunal Violence”, in America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 134:

(social media) Somewhat or moderately viral (circulated rapidly and widely).


Wikipediholism

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Blog streaking, Google-stalking, Wikipediholism and other modern maladies

2006 December 21, Jack Schofield, “(article title)”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-28:

The author of the original tool for counting edits noted that editcountitis, or an unhealthy obsession with the notion of edit count, can be fatal. Editcountitis is often a symptom of Wikipediholism, which is an even worse disease. The only sure treatment is worrying more about the quality of your edits than the quantity.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco, C.A.: No Starch Press, →ISBN, pages 324–325:

The community has dubbed obsessively editing the encyclopedia Wikipediholism; an article for the term warns that, "like any behavioral addiction, Wikipedia overuse may lead to job loss, divorce, bankruptcy, or worse. […] Remember, it's your time and you are donating it to Wikipedia. It is healthy to donate what you can afford to donate, but no more."

2015 February 3, Andrew McMillen, “One Man's Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-06-18:

(Wikimedia jargon) An addiction to editing Wikipedia.


Wikipediholic

Hopefully, you'll get hooked on Wikipedia soon and can add yourself to the list of "Wikipediholics" ;-).

2003 July 18, Erik Moeller, “Wikipedia needs skeptics”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet):

Yes, I am a Wikipediholic.

2004 July 6, Bryan Derksen, “Ringworld's Children”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

Wikipedians can be a similarly compulsive and eccentric lot. So much so that some refer to themselves as Wikipediholics with a case of editcountitis, "a serious disease consisting of an unhealthy obsession with the number of edits you have made to Wikipedia."

2010, Joseph M. Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia, Cambridge, M.A., London: MIT Press, page 157:

Many Wikipedia pages deal with topics only of interest to the Wikipedia community itself. Some of these pages are funny: there's a 1,181-question test to see if you're a Wikipediholic (for anyone who willingly sits through the entire test, I think the answer is obviously "yes"); a list of articles with freaky titles ("22.86 Centimetre Nails," the metric version of the band "Nine Inch Nails," now unfortunately deleted); and many others.

2012, Michael Nielsen, Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science, Princeton, N.J., Oxford, Oxfordshire: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 53:

(Wikimedia jargon) Someone who is addicted to editing Wikipedia.


editcountitis

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A system that encourages number of contributions over quality can be counterproductive. Wikipedia cautions against 'editcountitis', humorously described as 'a belief that a Wikipedian's overall contribution level can be measured solely by their edit count'.

2006, Jane Klobas, Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Chandos Publishing, →ISBN, page 199:

In fact, the very ease of this process may be the reason for deletionism's prevalence: Many Wikipedians suffer from editcountitis, the state of being overly obsessed with the number of edits one makes.

2017 March 6, Dariusz Jemielniak, “The Wikipedia Battle Over Really Short Articles”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

(Wikimedia jargon) Obsession with increasing one's edit count on a wiki.


unretweet

unretweet (third-person singular simple present unretweets, present participle unretweeting, simple past and past participle unretweeted)

unretweets (present singular third-person)
unretweeting (participle present)
unretweeted (participle past)
unretweeted (past)

The British version of Politwoops is amongst the sites affected. Its Twitter account, @deletedbyMPs, has not posted since Friday evening as a result of the closure. Its website, however, continues to archive deleted tweets, with the most recent example being a retweet by Labour MP Andrew Gwynne, unretweeted on Saturday.

2015 August 24, Alex Hern, “Twitter blocks access to political transparency organisation Politwoops”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-01:

A good way to soften the embarrassment that can follow too many self-retweets is to undo the retweet after a few minutes or only leave it up for a short time. This keeps your timeline from looking less desperate, and let's face it, if you're going to retweet the tweet again, you're going to have to unretweet it at some point.

2017 July 18, Taylor Lorenz, “In praise of retweeting yourself”, in Mic, archived from the original on 2023-03-31:

Most people are guessing there's something in the works with Grande and Hudson, though it's just speculation. Fans spotted Grande's photographer bestie Alfredo Flores retweet Carey's photo (and since unretweeted it), which seems to be a good sign.

2020 October 12, Natalie Morin, “Did Mariah Carey Just Announce A Christmas Collab With Ariana Grande?”, in Refinery29, archived from the original on 2023-07-31:

(Twitter, transitive) To undo the action of retweeting.