Bookstagram

Some of the bigger Bookstagram accounts that I follow are @quoththebooklover who has 15.3k followers, […]

2017 March 30, Lottie Moulster, “The Rising Trend of 'Bookstagram”, in The Galleon, University of Portsmouth, page 13:

Blogging was already something I did, but then I indulged in writing book reviews, which was the start of my journey on Bookstagram.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 83:

Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores. They take photos of books. They create bookstagram accounts.

2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124:

The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.


Instaceleb

If you're an Instagram junkie (like me) you might better recognise Gracie under the name @pony_nuts because she's a bit of an Instaceleb in the equestrian world.

2018 July, Sophie Callahan, “Shoot of the Month”, in Absolute Horse, page 7:

The country ran shuttles and posted signs encouraging visitors to enjoy the display responsibly, but those precautions didn't prevent rattlesnake bites, twisted ankles, heat exhaustion, Instacelebs and other selfie-takers lying in or otherwise trampling the delicate blooms they'd come to see.

2019 July, Jeffrey Rindskopf, “The Costs of Instatravel”, in DOPE Magazine, page 90:

With nearly 200,000 followers, Men's Health fitness director EBENEZER SAMUEL is a bona fide Instaceleb.

2020 March, “Meanwhile, On Instagram...”, in Men's Health, page 12:

A famous user of the photo-sharing and social media platform Instagram.


Instapoet

Instapoets were 'responsible for poetry going viral at a time when the genre was alleged to be all but dead', Bustle magazine wrote in 2018, in a piece looking at whether new social media poets were undermining or reviving the art and traditions of literary poetry.

2019, Hussein Kesvani, Follow Me, Akhi: The Online World of British Muslims, page 146:

Currently, no Instapoet has a higher profile than Rupi Kaur, the Punjabi-born Sikh Canadian whom Rolling Stone has called the “queen of Instapoets” and Fashion Magazine the “pop star of poetry.”

2020, Mike Chaser, Poetry Unbound: Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram:

Popular Instapoets such as Indian-Canadian Rupi Kaur have parlayed their online success into multi-book contracts with print publishers.

2020, Simon Murray, Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media, unnumbered page:

A poet working in the Instapoetry genre.


Instapoetry

Literature itself is undergoing a similar transition. Indeed, as someone who once read a book a day for a whole year, the current wave of instapoetry, tiny tales, and Tumblr posts has introduced me to an interesting new dimension to storytelling and to engaging with one's audience.

2019, Shashi Tharoor, "Foreword", in Manoj Pandey, The Legacy of Nothing, unnumbered page

Meanwhile, The Washington Post considered the advent of Instapoetry to be a turning point for the art form—this was a new genre of poetry created for a global, online audience, and its legacy would be contingent on virality: […]

Moreover, she links Instapoetry to the #metoo movement speaking out against sexual harassment and exploitation, and sees in the new voices of the female Instapoets an outlet for the expression of the female sexual gaze.

2020, Bronwen Thomas, Literature and Social Media, unnumbered page:

A genre of short-form poetry, which emerged on Instagram in the late 2010s, and is typically presented in an aesthetically-pleasing manner.


postworthy

en-adj

postworthy (comparative more postworthy, superlative most postworthy)

more postworthy (comparative)
most postworthy (superlative)

My camp had looked somewhat ramshackle in the presentations but once I arrived, I knew it was a perfect, picturesque spot: […] There wasn't Instagram then, but the entire spread was very postworthy.

2016, Jill Kargman, Sprinkle Glitter on My Grave: Observations, Rants, and Other Uplifting Thoughts About Life, New York, NY: Ballantine Books, →ISBN, pages 46–47:

Worthy of being posted to an Internet platform (blog, forum, social media etc.).


microinfluencer

From micro- (“small, tiny”) + influencer (“influential person on social media”).

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Accounts with between fifty thousand and two hundred thousand followers are considered “microinfluencers,” and tend to have higher engagement rates—that is, a larger share of their followers like, favorite, or comment on their posts—than those with millions of followers.

2017 April 17, Rachel Monroe, “#Vanlife, the Bohemian Social-Media Movement”, in The New Yorker:

By now you have probably heard of influencers, that group of internet-famous people who have more than a million social media followers and can make big money by plugging various brands. And you may have even heard of microinfluencers, who do the same thing for a still sizable but somewhat smaller social media audience — from the tens to low hundreds of thousands.

2018 November 11, Sapna Maheshwari, “Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?”, in The New York Times:

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


tweetworthy

en-adj

tweetworthy (comparative more tweetworthy, superlative most tweetworthy)

more tweetworthy (comparative)
most tweetworthy (superlative)

Do we trust this WSJ article 100%? No, of course not. But we trust it enough. It’s tweetworthy. And after we’ve confirmed that fact we can go back down to the Daily Kos page and see if that article by Hunter has any useful additional analysis.

2017 April 12, Mike Caulfield, “How ‘News Literacy’ Gets Web Misinformation Wrong”, in Observer:

In between the adorable, tweet-worthy soundbites, Emma asks me earnest questions. What happens after you die? Why do people have to die? Are Grampa Gary and Grampa Don in heaven?

2020 January 3, Jared Bilski, “What a hermit crab named Nigel taught me about death and parenting”, in The Washington Post:

(Internet) Worthy of being posted on the microblogging service Twitter.


blogathon

(blogging, neologism) A period or event during which one or more people publish a large number of blog posts, usually about a specific subject.


skinfluencer

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Blend of skin + influencer, equivalent to skin + -fluencer.

There's a growing breed of male skincare influencers – or ‘skinfluencers’ – who promote skincare regimens for men to have flawless visages. […] Regardless of why they come to skincare, retailers are taking notice, capitalising on the work from male skinfluencers and bringing in more of these male-focused skincare lines into stores.

2019 August 17, Sarah Manavis, “Male ‘skinfluencers’ are making bank recommending you moisturisers”, in GQ:

I scrolled through the Reddit SkincareAddiction forum (what an apt name) for hours, and used my “emergency” credit card to buy products I couldn’t actually afford. I watched YouTube videos of dewy, glowing “skinfluencers” to learn the molecular differences between an essence and a toner.

2020 September 4, André-Naquian Wheeler, “I Have Clear Skin, Now What? Confessions From the Other Side of Adult Acne”, in Vogue:

mr. yarbro’s ascent to skinfluencer fame began right when people started to quarantine. Real clothes and makeup went the way of indoor dining, and interest in skin care and in-home self-care soared.

2020 September 8, Rachel Strugatz, “The Content Creator Who Can Make or Break Your Skin Care Brand”, in The New York Times:

We've had skinfluencers (dermatologists) and gymfluencers (PTs) but now there is a new breed of social-media savvy experts to follow. Enter the scentfluencers, a group of fragrance enthusiasts who are demystifying the, frankly often very wafty, world of scent.

2023 August 6, Verity Clark, “Would you wear a cauliflower-based perfume?”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-06:

(informal) A social media celebrity whose account focuses on skincare products.


newsgroupie

Hey..I was curious...isn't there a pic of a lot of you newsgroupies out there somewhere?? I'm always curious what some of you people look like. :)

1999 March 27, AmyGrantfn, “Pic of Newsgroupies?”, in rec.music.artists.amy-grant (Usenet):

(Internet, slang) A user of Internet newsgroups; a newsgrouper.


nullish

(computing, JavaScript) Either being undefined or having a null value.


demod

en-verb

demod (third-person singular simple present demods, present participle demodding, simple past and past participle demodded)

demods (present singular third-person)
demodding (participle present)
demodded (participle past)
demodded (past)

From de- + mod (“moderator; to moderate”).

We finally understood why moderators were not allowed to talk about the mod center without fearing the possibility of being demodded. (Try it yourself, ask a mod about the mod center and they will either become dramatically silent, or just say no.)

2007 April 15, TheAsianIn...@gmail.com, “Re: hack runescape accounts.”, in comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc (Usenet):

(transitive, Internet, informal) To demote (someone) from moderator status.


dehost

dehost (third-person singular simple present dehosts, present participle dehosting, simple past and past participle dehosted)

dehosts (present singular third-person)
dehosting (participle present)
dehosted (participle past)
dehosted (past)

Traceroute for the domain returns a "DNS Authoritative: Host not found". […] Might this be compatible with the owner having 'dehosted' the domain?

2012 May 12, Iain Archer, “Re: Police pursuits”, in uk.legal.moderated (Usenet):

(transitive, computing, Internet) To cause (a website etc.) to lose connection with its host.


ragebait

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From rage + -bait (“manipulation to elicit a particular response”). Compare rage farm.

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-bait<t:manipulation to elicit a particular response>

Even before I spoke with the political scientists, Nerst contended that a better understanding of today’s online argumentation would help people cope with its excesses. “Most people really are tired of shouting matches and want more nuance (according to surveys etc.),” he wrote to me, “and I hope we will develop some cultural immunity towards ragebait and hyperzealotry soon. […]”

2019 April 7, Jesse Singal, “The New Science of How to Argue—Constructively”, in The Atlantic:

Donald Trump and Republicans understand this potent combination of content creation and shamelessness. Whether it’s weekend tweets by the president or Rudy Giuliani’s constant availability to journalists and Fox News hosts, Trumpists flood the zone with misinformation or ragebait.

2019 November 1, Charlie Warzel, “Can Democrats Compete With Trump’s Twitter Feed?”, in The New York Times:

Beware ragebait, social media that traffic in fear. Does that Facebook post make your blood boil? Or does it make you fearful of the future? Those are two of the reddest flags out there. But there are more.

2019 December 12, Jessica Guynn, “Facebook disinformation in the 2020 presidential election: What you can do to stop its spread”, in USA Today:

On any given day, those who get their news from the loudest voices on the right—Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart News—are bombarded with partisan propaganda, conspiracy theories, and cynical rage-bait.

2020 January 31, McKay Coppins, “The Conservatives Trying to Ditch Fake News”, in The Atlantic:

The whole thing sounds Trumpian because it is. The Trump campaign was unabashed in 2016 and beyond about its plan to “flood the zone” with garbage or ragebait. The strategy worked in part because it engaged and energized his base.

2020 February 13, Charlie Warzel, “Mike Bloomberg Is Hacking Your Attention”, in The New York Times:

So what, precisely, is the new Trump campaign leadership going to do differently? Is there some brilliant stratagem just waiting to be discovered and executed? ¶ Of course not. They’ll keep pumping out those Facebook ads, which will bombard voters who already support him with endless ragebait.

2020 July 16, Paul Waldman, “Trump reshuffles his campaign. If only he could reshuffle himself.”, in The Washington Post:

(Internet, derogatory) Content that provokes of anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.


ragebait

en-verb

ragebait (third-person singular simple present ragebaits, present participle ragebaiting, simple past and past participle ragebaited)

ragebaits (present singular third-person)
ragebaiting (participle present)
ragebaited (participle past)
ragebaited (past)

(Internet, derogatory) To produce content that provokes anger or fear in order to increase viewership or interaction.


Instagramable

en-adj

Instagramable (comparative more Instagramable, superlative most Instagramable)

more Instagramable (comparative)
most Instagramable (superlative)

A centerpiece such as a basket of fruits or a pumpkin vase of flowers would make the dining table look beautiful and Instagramable.

2016 November 23, Rachel Ramirez, “The Ultimate Friendsgiving Guide”, in The Beacon, Portland, Or.: University of Portland, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-02-27:

And then there are the chairs. Whimsical, colorful, diverse and tested for both comfort and durability, the wide array of unusual seating options at Changi's T4 are designed to be both inviting and Instagramable.

2017 November 5, Harriet Baskas, “Singapore: ‘World’s best airport’ opens sparkling Instagram-worthy new terminal”, in USA Today, McLean, Va.: Gannett Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-03-05:

Retailers are also taking a page out of this playbook by creating shopping experiences with Instagramable moments, including photo booths, branded mirrors and neon signs.

2018 October 10, Kaya Yurieff, “Restaurants Rise to Fame over Instagramable Food”, in CNN Business, archived from the original on 2019-11-12:

[A]n ‘Instagram-worthy experience’ or ‘Instagramable’, meaning that the pictures of the food have to be good enough to be posted on Instagram. In this way, customers satisfy their need for an ‘Instagrammable’ moment.

2019, Sherazade Aissa, “Digitalization in the Restaurant Sector – The French Exception?”, in Jessica Lichy, editor, The Driving Trends of International Business in the 21st Century, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 147:


Instagram-able

Instagram-able (comparative more Instagram-able, superlative most Instagram-able)

more Instagram-able (comparative)
most Instagram-able (superlative)

I'd hired a pair of social media assistants whose primary job was to identify Instagram-able outfits and locales, before the influence-aspiring hordes found their way to them and turned them into middle-America clichés.

2020, Janelle Brown, chapter 13, in Pretty Things, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, page 169:

[P]referred destinations are ‘Instagram-able’ or capable of being photographed in ways that generate likes and follows on Instagram.

2020, Marjorie Kibby, “Instafamous: Social Media Influencers and Australian Beaches”, in Elizabeth Ellison, Donna Lee Brien, editors, Writing the Australian Beach: Local Site, Global Idea, Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, page 66:

This isn't an accident; everything about this cafe is designed to be Instagram-able.

2020, Daniel Priestley, “Sales Follow-through: Proactively Follow Up with Prospects to Maximise the Effectiveness of Your Campaign”, in Oversubscribed: How to Get People Lining Up to Do Business with You, 2nd edition, Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (The Campaign-driven Enterprise Method: Turning Principles into Strategy), page 227:


ancom

ancom (comparative more ancom, superlative most ancom)

more ancom (comparative)
most ancom (superlative)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet) Clipping of anarcho-communist.


ancom

en-noun

ancom (countable and uncountable, plural ancoms)

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet, countable) Clipping of anarcho-communist.

(politics, economics, chiefly Internet, uncountable) Clipping of anarcho-communism.


stream sniper

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(video games, Internet) someone who engages in stream sniping


Brazilian aardvark

Brazilian aardvark (plural Brazilian aardvarks)

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑɹdvɑɹk/

/bɹəˌzɪljən ˈɑːdvɑːk/

The name was picked up following its insertion into Wikipedia in July 2008 by Dylan Breves as a joke. The hoax was uncovered in 2014, but some use of the name has continued.

Specializing mostly in birds, pheasants and ducks, they also have a few donkeys, snakes, porcupines and a group of animals: Brazilian aardvarks, Mexican tejon, hog-nosed coons, pistoes and snookum bears, which are cousins of the racoon.

2010 April 20, Randy Burns, “Scape Ore Farms' menagerie becoming an attraction”, in The Item, volume 115, number 157, page A4:

If they receive government approval, the species they'll be working with would include the maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus); jaguar (Panthera onca); black lion tamarin (Leontopithecus chrysopygus); bush dog (Speothos venaticus); Brazilian aardvark, also known locally as coati (Nasua nasua); collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla); gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira); and bison (Bison bison).

2012 November 14, John R. Platt, “Brazil Plans to Clone Its Endangered Species”, in Scientific American, quoted in print in Phillips, published 2020, →ISBN:

2013 February 20, "Brazilian aardvark on the loose in Marlow" (headline, when a coati escaped; article by James Nadal), in Bucks Free Press (Buckinghamshire, UK); quoted in print in Phillips (2020, →ISBN)

[…] A Brazilian aardvark, pictured enoying a snack in Tulum, Mexico.

2020, Tom Phillips, Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t, Harlequin, →ISBN:


scrolljacking

Blend of scroll + hijacking, perhaps also modelled on clickjacking.

(web development, somewhat derogatory) Controlling scrolling animation (using custom JavaScript) instead of relegating scrolling behavior to the web browser.


Wikipedist

From Wikipedia + -ist, likely by analogy with encyclopedist.

It has of course the brilliant let-out that it does not seek to prove that its statements are true, but only that they are “verifiable”. This principle is relatively weak: Wikipedists are supposed to be able to source their remarks.

2007, Richard D. North, “Scrap the BBC!”: Ten Years to Set Broadcasters Free, London: Social Affairs Unit, →ISBN, page 141:

(Wikimedia jargon, rare) A Wikipedian (person who contributes to Wikipedia).


idek

(text messaging, Internet, slang) Abbreviation of I don't even know.


TDZ

temporal dead zone
temporal dead zone#English

(programming) Initialism of temporal dead zone.


temporal dead zone

temporal dead zone (plural temporal dead zones)

(programming) In JavaScript, the lines of code preceding the declaration of a variable.


camfecting

(computer security, Internet) The process of hacking (or attempting to hack) a webcam for illegal purposes, such as voyeurism.


thirst trap

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If you are successful, the person you are targeting will be tempted to comment. Might even actually comment. Might even “slide into your DMs.” If so, you have pulled off your very own thirst trap.

2017 December 21, Valeriya Safronova, “Instagram Is Now a Dating Platform, Too. Here’s How It Works.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Posting a thirst trap is a great way to rake in a lot of likes on a photo. But as many Instagrammers have found, it’s also a great way to try and get out the vote.

2018 November 6, Taylor Lorenz, “The Voting-Sticker Thirst Trap Is Here”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 2023-01-13:

In the lockdown era, however, thirst traps and nudes are not only making a glorious, unrepentant comeback, but are now a form of emboldened agency in Gen Z’s blossoming sexual liberation.

2020 April 20, Ciara Gaffney, “Sex during lockdown: are we witnessing a cybersexual revolution?”, in The Guardian:

“Me. You can't put up a thirst trap with someone else in the background.” “Thirst trap?” Pen reached over and scooped the phone out of my hand. “A sexy selfie. You catch someone's eye and make them salivate over how hot you are.”

2021, Tagan Shepard, Swipe Right, Bella Books, →ISBN:

You won't have to post thirst-trap selfies or passive-aggressive quotes on social media to get his attention.

2021, Mandy Hale, Don't Believe the Swipe: Finding Love without Losing Yourself, Baker Books, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) A non-pornographic but sexually suggestive selfie posted on social media in order to fish for compliments or arouse thirst (sexual lust).


quote tweet

My most liked post is a quote tweet of the president's Arbor Day greetings in which I insinuated that shrubs should also have a holiday.

After being asked if she was driving, she responded with a quote tweet, saying "omg no!!! It was just my mom. My moms car. I rushed to the scene to be by her side becuz she was alone."

2016 August 4, Sagal Mohammed, “Kris Jenner is treated by paramedics after nasty car crash”, in Glamour, archived from the original on 2020-11-11:

I like quote tweets and use them frequently: to tell bad jokes and scream about the news and speak possibly nonexistent small smartphones into existence.

2018 May 2, Claire McNear, “How Quote Tweets Helped Ruin Twitter”, in The Ringer, archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

Finally, a quote tweet copies the content of another tweet and allows also to add new content. A quote tweet is sometimes called a re-tweet with a comment. In this work, we simply treat all quote tweets as original tweets since they include additional information/text.

2020, Yasunobu Sumikawa, Adam Jatowt, “Analyzing history-related posts in twitter”, in International Journal on Digital Libraries, →DOI, page 4:

(Internet) A retweet posted with additional commentary by the retweeter.


quote tweet

en-verb

quote tweet (third-person singular simple present quote tweets, present participle quote tweeting, simple past and past participle quote tweeted)

quote tweets (present singular third-person)
quote tweeting (participle present)
quote tweeted (participle past)
quote tweeted (past)

I made a nice post about my engagement and grandma quote tweeted it with a link to an essay about compulsory heterosexuality. What did she mean?

Last night, Portland Trail Blazers All Star guard Damian Lillard quote tweeted a tweet from Los Angeles Lakers forward Kyle Kuzma regarding their favorite wrestling moves.

2018 September 26, “Lillard's favorite wrestling moves: Stone Cold Stunner and much more”, in NBC Sports, archived from the original on 2020-11-11:

Stormzy quote tweeting me makes me a little bit gassed.

2018, David Giles, Twenty-First Century Celebrity: Fame In Digital Culture, Emerald Insight, →DOI, →ISBN, page 99:

On October 26th, Zaxby's Twitter account quote tweeted the Popeye's original quote tweet that spawned the chicken sandwich wars of 2019, repeating the phrase "...y'all ready?"

2020 October 30, Felix Behr, “Zaxby's just announced its entry into the chicken sandwich war”, in Mashed, archived from the original on 2020-11-06:

(Internet) To retweet a tweet with additional commentary such as a reaction to or joke about the original post.


WDDX

(Internet) Abbreviation of Web Distributed Data eXchange.


I-D

(Internet) Abbreviation of Internet Draft.


(Internet, Wi-Fi) Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access 3.


(Internet, Wi-Fi) Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access II.


dark academia

Reportedly first emerged as an aesthetic tag on Tumblr in the mid-2010s.

Dark Academia has received valid criticism for its Eurocentrism and elitism.

2021, Jacqueline Kipping, "Dark academia", The Issue (Radboud University), Fall 2021, page 21

I thought that dark academia and brownstone mansions were all that Boston had to offer, or at least, it didn’t occur to me to even consider what might be beyond my idealistic vision.

2021, Caitlin Haviland, "Breaking the BU Bubble", The Buzz (Boston University), Fall 2021, page 67

As a recent example of the ‘dark academia’ trend in literature, the novel effectively examines and subverts the romanticised view of so-called ‘prestigious’ universities.

2023, Rebecca van Besouw, "Literature Spotlight: Babel by RF Kuang", PDBY (University of Pretoria), 8 May 2023, page 11

(Internet) An aesthetic popularized in the 2010s, centered on higher education, writing, the arts, and classic Greek and Gothic architecture, as well as romantic longing and death.


fintwit

3:00 - 4:00pm: […] Get caught up on any news on BNNBloomberg.ca, CNBC.com and Twitter ("fintwit" community)

2018 October 19, Robin Speziale, “My daily routine”, in Capital Compounders: How to Beat the Market and Make Money Investing in Growth Stocks, page 170:

Trump has commented on the stock market more than 30 times since his election[…]Here’s a look at Trump’s #FinTwit habit and the S&P 500

[2018 October 30, Sarah Ponczek, Vildana Hajric, “All of Trump's Stock Market Tweets in One Chart”, in Bloomberg News:

Read that Wall Street Journal or other industry publications, follow "FinTwit" on social media, listen to that podcast[…]

[2020 November, Kate Healy, “AdvoKate: Nurture Yourself, Stand Out from the Crowd”, in Journal of Financial Planning, volume 33, number 11, pages 29–30:

(Internet slang) That part of the Twitter microblogging community that tweets about finance and stock markets.


pfp

Ever since the hackers stole the NFTs, Becerra has been trying to tell everyone on the internet not to buy them from the hackers. “Help me get my pfp [profile picture]^([sic]) ape back! Don’t let them win! Please don’t bid or pay for these stolen apes,” he wrote on Twitter.

2021 November 3, Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, “Man Upset That Hackers Stole His Bored Ape NFTs”, in Vice:

(Internet slang, text messaging) Abbreviation of profile picture.


meme stock

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Journalists covering the story have tended to gesture towards possible impetuses, and there are undoubtedly many underlying factors that led to r/wallstreetbets’ choosing GameStop as a “meme stock”, which have surely evolved with the saga (screwing Wall Street; making money; a genuine belief in the fundamentals of GameStop’s business model).

2021 January 28, Dan Dixon, “Anarchy, in-jokes and trolling: the GameStop fiasco is 4chan-think in action”, in The Guardian:

Individual YOLO decisions can be chalked up to many factors: cabin fever, low interest rates, the emergence of new get-rich-quick schemes like NFTs and meme stocks.

2021 April 21, Kevin Roose, “Welcome to the YOLO Economy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(finance, Internet slang) A company's stock that is hyped up and overbought by inexperienced investors, leading it to be overvalued.


zero-rate

zero-rate (third-person singular simple present zero-rates, present participle zero-rating, simple past and past participle zero-rated)

zero-rates (present singular third-person)
zero-rating (participle present)
zero-rated (participle past)
zero-rated (past)

(transitive) To provide Internet access without financial cost under certain conditions, such as by permitting access to only certain websites, by subsidizing the service with advertising, or by exempting certain websites from data allowances.


intromercial

(Internet) Synonym of preroll (“advertisement shown before the main content”)


email list

An electronic mailing list consisting of a database of email addresses and sometimes other information.


virtual YouTuber

en-noun

virtual YouTuber (plural virtual YouTubers)

From Japanese バーチャルYouTuber, from virtual + YouTuber.

corpo VTuber ― virtual YouTuber who is affiliated with a corporation

indie VTuber ― independent virtual YouTuber

An Internet personality (video creator or streamer) who operates using a virtual avatar, as a fictional or fictionalized character.

虛擬主播 /虚拟主播

A YouTuber who acts as a virtual character


art track

(Internet) A YouTube video automatically generated by Google, consisting of a track in the YouTube Music repertoire and a still of its associated album art.


From /d/ - Hentai/Alternative, an imageboard on 4chan, inspired by /b/tard. Taken from degenerate with humorous emphasis on the initial letter in reference to /d/'s stigma of degeneracy due to its content often veering into sexual fetishism.

(Internet slang) A habitual poster on the /d/ - Hentai/Alternative board on 4chan; a member of the /d/ community.


PR-friendly

en-adj

PR-friendly (comparative more PR-friendly, superlative most PR-friendly)

more PR-friendly (comparative)
most PR-friendly (superlative)

a PR-friendly blog

(Internet, euphemistic) Willing to be approached by brands in order to endorse goods and services.


confessions page

(Internet) a social networking platform for posting anonymous confessions and secrets, especially in school and university communities


thinkfluencer

From thinkfluence + -er, or equivalently, a blend of think + influencer.

It would be easy for an ungenerous observer to conclude that their parliament is little more than the entrepreneurial initiative of a few TED-style thinkfluencers – just another half-formed idea coughed up by smooth talkers with books to sell and consulting gigs to line up.

2014 September 18, Adam Greenfield, “A global parliament of mayors? Just what cities need – more bureaucracy”, in The Guardian:

That's why the first rule of any revolution is to wipe out the intellectuals. Trump is surely already dreaming of the vast logging camp he will fill with the Republican thinkfluencers who are at the moment making a show of being the last holdouts.

2017, Matt Taibbi, Insane Clown President: Dispatches from the 2016 Circus, New York, NY: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, page 180:

The emotional underpinnings of this economy have been best theorized by Venkatesh Rao, a 46-year-old writer and business consultant, who has become something of a negative futurist, a thinkfluencer’s thinkfluencer.

2020 January 19, Kyle Chayka, “How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(Internet, informal, sometimes derogatory) An influencer who posts their thoughts and analysis.


Airbnb

/ˌɛəɹˌbiːɛnˈbiː/

Shortening of the company's former name AirBed & Breakfast, coined by co-founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia in 2007, who originally came up with the idea of putting an air mattress in their living room and turning it into a bed and breakfast. Equivalent to air + B&B (“bed and breakfast”).

(trademark) An online vacation rental marketplace, operated by Airbnb, Inc.


WhatsApper

Emphasis on “tried.” The roughly 4,000-word tome fell under fire from countless WhatsAppers across the globe after the company told its users that they’ll be ejected from the platform unless they abide by these new terms.

2021 January 15, Shoshana Wodinsky, “This Was WhatsApp's Plan All Along”, in Gizmodo.com, G/O Media Inc., retrieved 2021-02-15:

(Internet) A user of the WhatsApp instant messaging service.


chainik

(Internet, slang) Someone new to a computing system or online community.


captive portal

(computing) A web page shown to new users of an access point before they can access the greater Internet.


keyboard army

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A group of people paid to defend the interests of their employer on social media platforms.


50 cent army

A calque of Chinese 五毛黨 /五毛党 (wǔmáodǎng), lit. "the 5 dime party", in reference to allegations that the Chinese government employs online shills paid 1/2 yuan RMB per online post at the time they first came to public attention.

People's Republic of China
People's Republic of China

Alleged Internet users who are paid by the authorities of the People's Republic of China to spread propaganda and disinformation on their behalf.


bozo filter

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sTLD

top-level domain
top-level domain#English

(Internet) Initialism of sponsored top-level domain.


open rate

Coordinate term: click-through rate

You calculate your open rate by using your non-bounce rate instead of the total e-mails sent because your open rate indicates the strength of your e-mail's identity and content apart from the strength of your deliverability.

2011, John Arnold, E-Mail Marketing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

(Internet marketing) A measure used by marketers as an indication of how many people "view" or "open" the electronic mail they send out.


fedpost

en-verb

fedpost (third-person singular simple present fedposts, present participle fedposting, simple past and past participle fedposted)

fedposts (present singular third-person)
fedposting (participle present)
fedposted (participle past)
fedposted (past)

From fed (“a federal government officer or official”) + -post.

suf

"How do you do fellow channers? Any bombings planned for today?"
"Stfu glowie, stop fedposting".

(Internet slang, intransitive) To post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent as a form of entrapment.


copystrike

I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and gave me a copystrike.

copyright infringement
copyright infringement

(slang, Internet) A formal notice to a user on a website (particularly YouTube or other video-sharing site) reprimanding the user for copyright infringement.


copystrike

en-verb

copystrike (third-person singular simple present copystrikes, present participle copystriking, simple past and past participle copystriked)

copystrikes (present singular third-person)
copystriking (participle present)
copystriked (participle past)
copystriked (past)

I uploaded a copy of the film trailer to the site, but the distributor removed it and copystriked me.

S-seriously? He just said that? I'm gonna copystrike this guy.

2018, Alinity, [https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/twitch-streamer-alinity-copyright-strikes-pewdiepie-for-calling-her-a-twitch-thot Twitch Streamer Alinity Copyright Strikes Pewdiepie^([sic]) for Calling her a Twitch Thot]:

(slang, Internet) To issue a copystrike to someone or against a piece of content.


don't @ me

A user functionality on social media services such as Twitter, wherein a user can be notified of another's post by typing their username after an @.

The Star Wars prequels were great, don't @ me.

(social media) A demand for no debate regarding a controversial statement.


soft-block

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

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

Coordinate term: hard-block

Softblocking is not a built-in function, but a strategy. There are a few ways of doing it, but the idea is to create a sort of inverted mute.

2019 November 11, Brian Feldman, “How to Block, Mute, and Avoid Your Enemies Online”, in New York—Intelligencer:

(Internet, transitive) To block (a user) on social media and then immediately unblock them, so that the user will (perhaps unknowingly) no longer follow or engage with the blocking user's posts.


soft-block

Coordinate term: hard-block

Where a mute hides someone else’s posts from you, a softblock hides your posts from someone else, without completely blocking them. It’s less like building a wall and more like cutting a string.

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:


JMAP

JSON Meta Application Protocol
w:JSON Meta Application Protocol

(Internet) Initialism of JSON Meta Application Protocol.


worldlet

(Internet, historical) A three-dimensional fragment of a virtual world used as a landmark for wayfinding.


troll farm

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These are some of the hallmarks of a so-called troll farm — a physical location where a collective of operators share computers and phones to jointly manage a pool of fake accounts as part of an influence operation.

2021 March 14, Facebook March 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report:

Troll farms — professionalized groups that work in a coordinated fashion to post provocative content, often propaganda, to social networks— were still building massive audiences by running networks of Facebook pages.

2021 September 16, Karen Hao, “Troll farms reached 140 million Americans a month on Facebook before 2020 election, internal report shows”, in MIT Technology Review, retrieved 2021-09-17:

Rally Forge ... established a domestic 'troll farm' in Phoenix, Arizona, that employed teenagers to churn out pro-Trump social media posts, some of which cast doubt on the integrity of the US election system or falsely charged Democrats with attempting to steal the election.

2021 June 11, Julia Wong, “Revealed: rightwing firm posed as leftist group on Facebook to divide Democrats”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2021-09-26:

(Internet) A group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions and decision-making.

trollitehdas

a group of Internet trolls organized in order to interfere in political opinions


pseudoheader

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(Internet) A simplified header used in the TCP and UDP protocols in order to calculate a checksum.


(Internet) A second and more compact iteration of the WOFF file format.


NSO

Nintendo Switch Online
w:Nintendo Switch Online

(video games, Internet) Initialism of Nintendo Switch Online.


threadly

From thread + -ly, on the model of weekly, monthly, etc.

a threadly reminder

(Internet, informal) Occurring on every thread of discussion.


anti-MLM

en-adj

anti-MLM (comparative more anti-MLM, superlative most anti-MLM)

more anti-MLM (comparative)
most anti-MLM (superlative)

(Internet) Opposing or opposed to MLMs and their practices.


content creator

en-noun

content creator (plural content creators)

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(social media) One who creates social media content, especially of a monetizable nature.


MLMer

multi-level marketer
multi-level marketer#English

(Internet) Abbreviation of multi-level marketer.; one who is involved in an MLM.


webisodic

How do you make money from a webisodic? The business model for online entertainment remained elusive.

1999, John Geirland, Eva Sonesh Kedar, Digital Babylon, page 91:

Many developers placed their hopes on a form called the webisodic, a story-based serial told in short installments using stills, text, animation, or video. The first such webisodic, The Spot, debuted in 1995 and was an enormous hit at the time.

2004, Carolyn Handler Miller, Digital Storytelling:

(Internet) A website offering an unfolding story in the form of blog posts, images, short videos, etc. posted at intervals.


unspoiler

en-verb

unspoiler (third-person singular simple present unspoilers, present participle unspoilering, simple past and past participle unspoilered)

unspoilers (present singular third-person)
unspoilering (participle present)
unspoilered (participle past)
unspoilered (past)

Don't unspoiler the message until I tell you to.

(Internet, transitive) To bypass the spoiler warning on (a message) so as to view the contents.


blind-copy

blind-copy (third-person singular simple present blind-copies, present participle blind-copying, simple past and past participle blind-copied)

blind-copies (present singular third-person)
blind-copying (participle present)
blind-copied (participle past)
blind-copied (past)

(Internet, transitive) To send a blind carbon copy to (a person).

(Internet, transitive) To send a blind carbon copy of (a message) to somebody.


ASF

Advanced Systems Format
w:Advanced Systems Format

(software, Internet, multimedia) Initialism of Advanced Systems Format (a multimedia format for streaming media across the internet, formerly Active/Advanced Streaming Format)


online dating

→ German: Onlinedating, Online-Dating

In the digital age, everything must at some point be reduced to this basic construct of choice: One or zero. Yes or no. On or off. Subscribers to online dating sites are forced to come up with a list of their desires. Red hair? Yes or no. Over 30 O.K.? Please check a box.

2010 February 11, Scott James, “In the Calculations of Online Dating, Love Can Be Cruel”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Dating over the Internet, typically using a website or app to find potential connections.


TRBL

(computing, Internet, Cascading Style Sheets, mnemonic) Acronym of top, right, bottom, left, the order in which the sides of elements are defined.


attack page

Under Wikipedia policy, users who create attack pages are likely to be blocked from editing.

This web page at mybank.com has been reported as an attack page and has been blocked […]

2013, Andrew A. Adams, Michael Brenner, Matthew Smith, Financial Cryptography and Data Security, page 110:

There was also an attack page about the IRS and illegal immigration along the borders.

2017, Harry Hurst, John Carter: Soldier, Business Tycoon, Politician:

(Internet) A web page created for the purpose of attacking a person or group, either through hateful content or through hacking or other technological measures.


tone indicator

For one thing, it helps to shed light on the nature of the question mark and the exclamation point – the "tone indicators" – which I have not considered up to here.

1990, Geoffrey Nunberg, chapter 5, in The Linguistics of Punctuation, Cambridge University Press, page 65:

But what tone indicators lack in artfulness, they make up for in their bulletproof inability to be misinterpreted.

2020 December 9, Ezra Marcus, “Tone Is Hard to Grasp Online. Can Tone Indicators Help?”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2021-07-04:

(linguistics, chiefly Internet) A symbol conveying the tone or context of a message, often over the internet.


mobile data

Yet O2 says that while it has doubled the number of iPhone users, mobile data use is doubling every 4 months, equivalent to an eightfold growth every year.

2010 June 11, Charles Arthur, “Why file-sharing has killed 'unlimited' mobile data contracts”, in The Guardian:

The analysis of mobile data plans in 230 countries revealed that the UK ranked a “disappointing” 136th when the cost of one gigabyte (1GB) of mobile data was looked at.

2019 March 5, Rupert Jones, “UK among countries with priciest mobile data plans in Europe”, in The Guardian:

By turning off mobile data, you end up with a dumb or minimalist phone while out and about, but a fully internet-connected smartphone while at home, at work and in coffee shops and restaurants that provide Wi-Fi.

2019 March 23, Mike Elgan, “Why you should stop using mobile data”, in Computerworld:

(mobile telephony) Internet data transfer over a cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi.


back-seat gamer

en-noun

back-seat gamer (plural back-seat gamers)

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Formed by analogy with back-seat driver.

(Internet, video games) A person who excessively commentates on the in-game decisions and actions of someone playing a video game, whilst not playing the game.


ligma

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Used for its sounding similarity to "lick my (balls)" in colloquial speech.
Perhaps reminiscent of Greek terms like sigma, omega, tagma, etc., used commonly in English in various scientific contexts.

"Hey, have you heard of ligma?" "What's ligma?" "Ligma balls!"

If you've been online for the past 24 hours, you may have heard of a mysterious illness called "Ligma". The internet is going crazy after an internet personality, Tyler "Ninja" Blevins supposedly died from the new disease.

2018 July 23, Jasmine Girn, “What Is "Ligma" And Why Is Everyone Talking About It”, in Narcity, archived from the original on 2023-12-16:

Recent reports said that Youtube^([sic]) and Fortnite content creator Fe4rLess died of a medical condition called Ligma.

2020 June 11, Mohit Kumar, “Fortnite: Fe4rless (Fearless) death rumour that he died of Ligma is fake”, in Sportskeeda:

Later on, Heafy did issue an apology towards Machine Gun Kelly following these comments. "I’d like to publicly apologize for my tasteless comments about MGK," he said. "I just found out he's been afflicted by the Ligma variant. It’s really getting real out there. Thoughts and prayers homie."

2021 September 29, Matt Heafy (quoted), Cillian Breathnach, “Trivium's Matt Heafy "formally disses" Machine Gun Kelly for wearing a "16 year old pop punk cosplay identity on a fucking stage"”, in Guitar.com:

Pranksters fooled some media members into thinking they'd been laid off by Elon Musk soon after his Twitter takeover. In reality, they were making reference to a common internet joke involving testicles. […] one of the pranksters had told reporters their name was "Rahul Ligma."

2022 October 28, Tim Marcin, “Pranksters fool some media members after Elon Musk's Twitter takeover”, in Mashable:

(chiefly Internet, humorous) A fictional ostensible disease coined to sound similar to "lick my balls" (used to trick a person into asking the meaning).


clown world

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Emerged from The Honkler, a version of Pepe the Frog meme featuring a red clown nose and rainbow wig, characterized as honking a bicycle horn whenever liberals speak. That meme is associated with the use of honk honk ("HH") as a dog whistle for Heil Hitler.

[…] instead of the young boys growing up to be feminine, weak cry babies like they are in the modern ultra-liberal clown world they live in today.

2020 December 10, James Nicholls, How Uk Should Be, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN:

"Bloody idiots. But remember, this is an age when hurty feelings come above everything else, especially free speech. Sums up our stupid clownworld backward feminut times, eh?"

2020, P. J. Vanston, Somewhere in Europe, unnumbered page:

But he wasn't a chad. If you are not a chad you are literally an unperson in this clown world.

2021, anonymous, quoted in Martin Robinson, You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity, unnumbered page

(slang, derogatory, alt-right) The current absurd and irrational state of global society from the perspective of the alt-right movement.


mega menu

There has actually been a recent trend of several major e-commerce websites moving their top menu to the left, using fly-out mega menus instead.

2012, Rich Page, Website Optimization: An Hour a Day:

They use mega menus carefully, with a mega footer only on the home page.

2015, Andy Grogan, Accidental Encyclopedia, page 29:

However, mega menus can be difficult to implement so that they are usable with the keyboard and work on small devices.

2016, Patrick J. Lynch, Sarah Horton, Web Style Guide, 4th Edition, page 229:

If you're unlucky, you have one of those clients who wants MEGA menus with a hierarchy of menus with many links.

2016, Kelt Dockins, Design Patterns in PHP and Laravel, page 72:

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(Internet, graphical user interface) A complex menu that may incorporate subheadings, images, and other content.


finfluencer

→ German: Finfluencer, Finfluenzer

→ Macedonian: финфлуенсер (finfluenser)

desc

финфлюе́нсер

финфлюэ́нсер

→ Russian: финфлюе́нсер (finfljujénser), финфлюэ́нсер (finfljuénser)

→ Serbo-Croatian: fincluencer /финфлуенсер

(informal, social media, marketing, neologism) An influencer who gives advice on financial investments.


kidfluencer

Blend of kid + influencer, equivalent to kid + -fluencer.

In December, a 9-year-old kidfluencer known as Txunamy shared a photo on Instagram and asked her more than two million followers to comment on it and share their ages.

2019 January 3, Sapna Maheshwari, “Online and Earnings Thousands, at Age 4: Meet the Kidfluencers”, in The New York Times:

Putting aside the obvious questions regarding infant privacy, just who exactly are these kidfluencers supposed to be kidfluencing?

2019 January 3, Jack Morse, “So it's come to this: An unborn baby 'kidfluencer' has 112,000 Instagram followers”, in Mashable:

As a result, most “Kidfluencers” parents manage their accounts in order to sustain their online presence.

2021 February 23, Vanessa Cezarita Cordeiro, ““Kidfluencers” and Social Media: The Evolution of Child Exploitation in the Digital Age”, in Humanium:

Even though only a small number of kidfluencers are this successful, the prospect of earning a steady income has attracted many families to participate in the trend.

2022 September 6, “What are 'kidfluencers'?”, in INHOPE:

(informal, social media, marketing) A child who is an influencer.


gigachad

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From giga- + Chad (“a very attractive man”). Although isolated uses exist earlier, the term was popularized by an anonymous poster on the 4chan /pol/ board on October 17th, 2017, who referred to Russian model Ernest Khalimov as "Gigachad". See Gigachad for more.

I heard Robert just donated $500 to Team Trees. What an absolute gigachad!

I have a lot of respect to Tarik for being a gigachad.

2022 March 27, Olivia Richman, “Doublelift calls Tarik "gigachad" for condemning JasonR's sexist behavior”, in Inven Global, archived from the original on 2024-02-05:

As per his IGN interview, LMSH took 242 tries to beat Malenia on his own. After this, he just decided that no other player has to suffer the same fate he did. What an absolute GigaChad.

2022 April 18, RJ Pierce, “Legendary 'Elden Ring' Player 'Let Me Solo Her' Is Now Immortalized In A Mod”, in Tech Times, archived from the original on 2023-03-25:

His meteoric rise from ironic gigachad to actual gigachad is a huge story in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, but he just one-upped his own reputation. In an RMR match against Ecstatic, HooXi scored an insane HLTV rating of 2.21.

2022 October 5, Kenneth Williams, “HooXi just outfragged the rest of G2 against Ecstatic”, in WIN.gg, archived from the original on 2023-09-25:

(by extension, Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) An extremely admirable man; a Chad among Chads.


Facebook jail

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(Internet slang) A period of time in which a user is banned or blocked from accessing or posting to their Facebook account.


BreadTube

Blend of bread + YouTube, in reference to the 1892 book The Conquest of Bread by Peter Kropotkin, often considered a foundational text of political anarchism. By surface analysis, bread + -Tube.

Holonym: LeftTube

The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who tend towards left-wing perspectives.


group chat

“The Lifeguards” is a polyphonic story, told in the voices of three mothers, with chapters handed over to their teenage sons, a recently widowed detective and the Barton Hills Mamas, an Austin, Texas, group chat consisting of members I thought of as that brood of vipers.

2022 April 5, Elizabeth Wetmore, “How Far Will Parents Go to Protect Their Sons?”, in The New York Times:

Unanswered messages—whether it's a text convo with your crush, a group chat that none of your friends responds to, or a hopeful conversation starter on Tinder—are just one more way living in this digital age can make you feel all-caps crappy.

2023 March 6, Alexis Jones, Megan Schaltegger, “These Tinder Conversation Starters Actually Work, According To Dating Experts”, in Women's Health:

But just as the big three TV networks amassed a giant audience in the 20th century, then lost it to cable and the internet, the appeal of bringing the entire world into one big group chat might be over. This is the way a phenomenon ends — not with a sharknado but a whimper.

2023 July 10, James Poniewozik, “The Twitter Watch Party Is Over”, in The New York Times:

(Internet) A simultaneous online chat between a group of people by means of a messaging application.


sir, this is a Wendy's

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One of the comments:
 "I got the whole alphabet right, even the hard part where you have to say LMNOP! The doctors were really impressed!"
 "Sir, this is a Wendy's"

2020 July 24, jthr...@gmail.com, “Re: LOL!”, in alt.guitar.amps (Usenet):

Sir, this is a Wendy's. (Full disclosure: this isn't a Wendy's. This is a sex-advice column, JACKS, and sex-advice columnists are not matchmakers. So you'll have to find and/or hire a phone-sex provider on your own.)

2022, Dan Savage, "When an asexual says 'no', she means no", The Georgia Straight, 17 February 2022 - 24 February 2022, page 17

“You must be in so much pain to keep posting bikini pictures at your age,” a follower commented on longtime supermodel Paulina Porizkova’s Instagram this week. “I pray you can come to terms with your mortality.”
This comment has big “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” energy, or at least, “Sir, if seeing a woman’s exposed flesh compels you to bring up her death, the internet might not be the healthiest place for you right now” vibes. But Porizkova, who is 57 and known for having a good sense of humor, responded with another bikini pic, adding, “As you can see, I’m suffering indeed.”

2022 May 2, Jenny Singer, “Women Are Calling Themselves ‘Old and Ugly’ on Twitter—And It’s Actually Super Heartwarming”, in Glamour:

sir, this is an Arby's
sir, this is an Arby's#English

(Internet slang) Alternative form of sir, this is an Arby's.


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From a humorous Internet meme that envisions a character giving a strange, rambling monologue, with the punchline being a fast-food employee reminding them that they are in a restaurant. This format of joke is first attested in a November 2011 tweet by American screenwriter Ethan Hunter (@ethanhunter).

Setting aside the fact that Trump inviting a group of lawmakers to the White House to discuss trade policy only to launch into an out-of-nowhere rant about one of his enemies being fat is the definition of the phrase “ma’am, this is an Arby’s,” Trump’s hatred for Nadler goes way back.

2019 April 9, Bess Levin, “Trump's Radical Anti-Impeachment: Fat Jokes”, in Vanity Fair:

When you’re doing your job as a journalistic commentator in its highest form, you’re drawing new parallels, expanding the Overton Window, opening people’s minds and also ensuring them they aren’t alone in their frustrations with the status quo. When done at its most hacky, however, you’re ranting at people, making leaps and assumptions that gloss over reality, casting yourself as omniscient genius, and generally just pulling real “Sir, this is an Arby’s” shit.

2021 October 13, Blair Stenvick, “If I Ever Run for Governor, Please Don't Vote for Me”, in Portland Mercury:

I wonder if you’re familiar with the “Sir, this is an Arby’s” meme. Let me illustrate it for you:
Person A [with aggressive aggravation]: Can you believe it? The other day, I heard someone refer to the book of Genesis. Surely you KNOW that Genesis is not just “a book,” but the first part of the Pentateuch, and the Pentateuch is a five-fold book, not five books. Do you know what the first word is in Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy? It’s and. BOOM. What did Jesus call the Torah? “The book of Moses.” Not the books of Moses.
Person B [laconically]: Sir, this is an Arby's.

2020 September, Alex Duke, “'Sir, This Is a Local Church'— Or, How an Absurdist Meme about a Roast Beef Shop Might Help Heal Our Church”, in 9Marks Journal, page 142:

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds a statement to be bizarre, tangential, or inappropriate for the context in which it is made.


can I speak to the manager haircut

en-noun

can I speak to the manager haircut (plural can I speak to the manager haircuts)

can I speak to the manager haircuts (plural)

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From a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

But after a banshee of a woman with a 'can I speak to your manager' haircut howled at us (apparently this was "singing", though we're still yet to confirm it) for an hour we decided it was best to seek the comforts of the motel, its panoramic views of the roundabout and reruns of Midsomer Murders.

2016, Lachlan Sharp, "Lake Placid", The Reef (Beaumaris Yacht Club), Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer/Autumn 2016, page 16

In the first ten seconds of an educational video, Pam, with her double-denim and 'can I speak to the manager' haircut, says ominously: […]

2017, Erin Christie, "Nobody Told Me", Grapeshot (Macquarrie University), Volume 9, Issue 7 (2017), page 29

A middle-aged boomer with a can-I-speak-to-the-manager haircut who has lots of opinions about lots of things but none of them feel all that well thought out.

2020, Portia MacIntosh, Stuck On You, unnumbered page:

(slang, derogatory) A hairstyle associated with entitled middle-aged white women, typically a layered, asymmetrical bob with blond highlights.


Karen haircut

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From the use of Karen, beginning in the late 2010s, as a pejorative for an entitled middle-aged white woman. The association of a specific hairstyle with this type of woman began with a 2014 meme pairing a photo of a white woman with an asymmetrical blond bob with the text "The 'Can I Speak To A Manager' Haircut".

There was no misinformation from middle-aged women on Facebook with Karen haircuts.

2020 April 27, Vic Bell, “A Nation In Paralysis”, in Salient, Victoria University of Wellington, page 14:

A woman with a Karen haircut pointed at a hall in the back […]

2020, A. W. Hartoin, Bottle Blonde (published 15 September 15 2020), unnumbered page

The blonde with the Karen haircut had terrible acne, which she concealed with makeup.

2020, Matthew Archbold, American Antigone (published 16 September 2020), page 117


unstreamable

Read about the Black Keys’ El Camino in Pitchfork’s feature “A Brief History of Famously Unstreamable Albums (That Ended Up Streaming Anyway).”

2021, Matthew Ismael Ruiz, “Watch the Black Keys’ New “Going Down South” Video”, in Pitchfork:

(Internet) Not streamable; impossible to stream.


groyper

Unclear overall. First attested in c. 2015.
A common hypothesis seems to be a blend of goy ("Gentile") + groper ("sexual assaulter"), probably in reference to the illustration's (later) associations with the political group. Other conjectures include an alteration of groper alone, as well as being based on names apparently befitting an amphibian, such as Frogger, the root *groyp- being onomatopoeia for a toad's croak (compare Italian gracidare (“to croak”), Bulgarian кря́кам (krjákam, “croak, etc.”)). Or possibly a nonsense term; multiple elements may be combined here.
The first attestations (almost always accompanied with a distinct Pepe the Frog illustration, on 4chan) predate associations with Nick Fuentes, so it is unclear if the first is a case of folk etymology.

noncog

(Internet slang) A large, green, cartoon toad with a strange mischievous expression, similar to Pepe the Frog.


counterflame

The initial reply by G.S., using a curious combination of concessions and refusal to debate specifics, managed to work up to a level of derogation that could reasonably be termed a counterflame: […]

"The discussion did not affect my perception of the o-l c [on-line community] because I viewed the flame/counterflame situation as an aspect of the medium of teletype e-mail—not as a reflection of any person or group in the community."

2009, Eric Lesser, Michael Fontaine, Jason Slusher, Knowledge and Communities, page 219:

(Internet) A flame (aggressive message) posted in response to another flame.


Twitterfication

Further, as voice and sound enter multimedia culture, literacies of the ear, speech, and especially performance (e.g., think of the YouTube, Second Life, and Twitterfication of the Internet) also become part of the aesthetics and pedagogies of an expanded technoliteracy that should allow for multiple methods of learning.

2012, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World:

We sat back and watched Facebook's Twitterfication take place last year, culminating with the launch of new privacy settings.

2014, Zhaohao Sun, Handbook of Research on Demand-Driven Web Services, page 205:

(informal) Adaptation to the norms and values of (the users of) the social network Twitter.


memeworthy

en-adj

memeworthy (comparative more memeworthy, superlative most memeworthy)

more memeworthy (comparative)
most memeworthy (superlative)

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Clips from 1980s cartoons are usually pretty memeworthy.

Facebook's filters are also designed to notice the already popular, frequently clicked items while disregarding other, less memeworthy ones.

2013, Evgeny Morozov, To Save Everything, Click Here: Technology, Solutionism, and the Urge to Fix Problems that Don’t Exist, Penguin UK, →ISBN:

... but they are far from memeworthy. One question that social media can help us ask our students is: what can poetry (and literature more generally) do in ...

2015, Frederick Luis Aldama, Latino/a Literature in the Classroom: Twenty-first-century approaches to teaching, Routledge, →ISBN:

That was kind of memeworthy. I'm impressed.” “Your mum and I were over at Joe's the other night. Twenty years he's been there, Michael.

2017, Randa Abdel-Fattah, The Lines We Cross, Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:

... opened up under the rear wheels of a bus during morning rush hour, producing memeworthy images that have given the city an image it would like to shake.

2021, Justin Starr, Water and Wastewater Pipeline Assessment Technologies: Classification Systems, Sensors, and Results Interpretation, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 19:

(Internet slang) Deserving of Internet memes.


From /pol/ - Politically Incorrect, an imageboard on 4chan; and the word Polack, a slur used against Polish people that depicts them as backwards.

(Internet slang) A habitual poster on the /pol/ - Politically Incorrect board on 4chan; a member of the /pol/ community.


From /pol/ - Politically Incorrect, an imageboard on 4chan. Taken from political to indicate /pol/'s main theme. Portmanteau with retard.


BreadTuber

Entering into this visibility war requires BreadTubers to build knowledge about YouTube’s algorithms and find ways to mobilize this knowledge in order to facilitate the collective visibility of the community

2020, Kelley Marie Cotter, "Critical Algorithmic Literacy: Power, Epistemology, and Platforms", thesis submitted to Michigan State University, page 8

Contrapoints, Philosophy Tube, Hbomberguy, and Shaun are among the most popular Breadtubers.

2021, Christian Fuchs, Social Media: A Critical Introduction, unnumbered page:

Among the most popular “Breadtubers” is Contrapoints, with her channel amassing an audience of nearly 1.5 million subscribers.

2021 October 19, Terrance Davis, “The rise in class-conscious media”, in The Signal, Georgia State University, page 6:

A videoblogger who is part of the BreadTube community.


Instagrammability

The day I was there, the Portland Head Light towered in glorious Instagrammability.

2016, Melody Warnick, This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are, page 158:

The Instagrammability of these animals would destroy them, I thought.

2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:

Destination stakeholders have increasingly recognized the importance of the “Instagrammability” of places.

2021, Velvet Nelson, An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism, page 303:

The state or quality of being Instagrammable.


Instagramability

"Careful," I teased. "I'm grading this date on its Instagramability."

2020, Kathleen Barber, Follow Me, page 180:

I didn't care about the Instagramability [of the wedding ceremony]. I wanted it to be serious. We focused on our faith and our families.

2021, Claudia Oshry, Girl With No Job: The Crazy Beautiful Life of an Instagram Thirst Monster, page 95:

[…] Unfortunately, because of the Instagramability of your amazing snacks, I have a day of eating myself sick on ice cream ahead of me."

2021, Amanda Radley, Under Her Influence, unnumbered page:

Alternative spelling of Instagrammability.


rinsta

Teen girls tell me that they have public “rinsta” or real Instagram accounts for all followers and then private “finsta” Instagram accounts for their "closest" friends.

2017, Ana Homayoun, Social Media Wellness: Helping Tweens and Teens Thrive in an Unbalanced Digital World, page 31:

Her “rinsta” is based on her full name and it is the picture of a perfect middle schooler.

2018, Carrie Kerpen, Work It: Secrets for Success from the Boldest Women in Business, page 78:

There were the Finstas and the Rinstas—the fake and the real, the accounts that your parents could see, where every kid posted things about school and new haircuts and cute dogs on the street, and the accounts where you could see more bare skin and some authentic teen misery.

2020, Emma Straub, All Adults Here, page 110:

(informal) A primary personal Instagram account on which one posts publicly (typically under their real name).


pagelet

(Internet) A reusable modular fragment of a web page.


WitchTok

Is ‘WitchTok’ to blame for the popularisation of manifestation amongst Gen Z?

2020, Phoebe Bowers, "The Dawn of Manifesttion", Quench (Cardiff University), November 2020, page 9

On TikTok, the 'WitchTok' community grew exponentially, with influencers posting tarot card readings, manifestations, and good luck spells that their followers could watch from home.

2021 January 22, Caitlin O'Sullivan, “Something Wicked”, in Cherwell, Oxford University, page 3:

Today is the day to take a risk (and maybe finally try out that spell you saw on WitchTok)!

2021 February 14, Gina Feliz, “Nasstrology: Valentines Day Edition”, in The Nassau Weekly, page 9:

(Internet slang) The community of witches and occult-oriented accounts on TikTok.


content gap

Basic SEO involves following the examples below, leveraging content, and creating additional content when analytics inform stakeholders and analysts that there is a content gap. Content gaps occur when visitors and searchers are looking for a specific keyword or phrase, but the term is not located on the website.

2017, Marshall Sponder, Gohar F. Khan, Digital Analytics for Marketing, Routledge, →ISBN:

(SEO slang) The difference between what users are looking for on the web, and the results they receive.


alt-tech

This is a book on all things alt-tech and the like. People who are shadow-banned and removed from the internet can be found with all things alt-tech. Includes a multiple page list of content creators, works as a guide and reference.

2020, Scott Barry, Alt Tech, Lulu.com, →ISBN:

Parler was sometimes ridiculed as the “boomer 4chan,” a messy-but-accessible connecting piece between mainstream right-wing Facebook and the darker fringes of the internet. But in a short time, it really did become the core of the “alt-tech” ecosystem, and its downfall has enraged many on the right who were already in an uproar about limitations on online speech.

2021 January 18, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Parler’s Rise Was Also Its Downfall”, in The Atlantic:

There are three types of alt-tech platforms: 1) platforms created for extremists and used by extremists such as WASP Love and Hatreon; 2) ultra-libertarian platforms, platforms created by libertarians or commercially driven developers, which tend to operate in the name of free speech and tolerate extremist content such as Gab, Minds and 8chan; and 3) hijacked platforms, platforms created for entirely different purposes that have been hijacked by extremists but proactively work with the authorities to ban these from using their services such as Discord, Telegram and JustPasteIt.

2021, Julia Ebner, Going Dark: The Secret Social Lives of Extremists, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 145:

(Internet) Social media and other Internet platforms with a large alt-right userbase.


Periscope

en-verb

Periscope (third-person singular simple present Periscopes, present participle Periscoping, simple past and past participle Periscoped)

Periscopes (present singular third-person)
Periscoping (participle present)
Periscoped (participle past)
Periscoped (past)

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton Periscoped her first major campaign rally with Olympian Michelle Kwan as the host of the live stream.

2015, Marketing Trends Guide 2016, page 8:

When Manchester City fan Josh Chambers “Periscoped” an entire away match at Crystal Palace in Febrary 2017, notionally for the benefit of his stay-at-nome dad, the stream was watched by more than 139,000 stay-at-home fans.

2017, Paul Brown, Savage Enthusiasm: A History of Football Fans, page 277:

And photographer Patrick Witty (2015 ) Periscoped refugees landing in Lesbos, Greece, for BuzzFeed News.

2018, Claudette G. Artwick, “Social Media Livestreaming”, in Scott Eldridge II, Bob Franklin, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism, page 298:

(transitive or intransitive, Internet) To broadcast live video stream using Periscope app via phone or tablet.


momfluencer

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Blend of mom + influencer, equivalent to mom + -fluencer.

Feeling overwhelmed and maybe a bit underappreciated, we moms gravitate toward the insistence of well-meaning momfluencers who tell us what we "deserve” — we "deserve" a break. Praise. Recognition.

2020 August, Allie Beth Stuckey, You're Not Enough (And That's Okay), page 43:

The everchanging expectations voiced by an endless stream of “experts” (and the momfluencer with 12K followers and the gingham filter for that perfect orange-y skin glow) makes it impossible to feel like you're succeeding at motherhood.

2020 September, Maggie Combs, Motherhood Without All the Rules:

And now, some of the first Insta Stories I watch as I nurse my baby at 6:23 a.m. are by Hannah of @ballerinafarm, a new face to the momfluencer stratosphere, but one of many conventionally beautiful, straight, white women who perform a version of motherhood that feels like pioneer cosplay hit with a dash of Brooklyn hipster aesthetics.

2021 January 28, Sara Petersen, “Momfluencer Content Enrages Me. Why Can't I Look Away?”, in Harper's Bazaar:

The soul of this community is local queen bee Sherry Conrad (Search Party alum Shalita Grant, the season’s MVP), an officious, controlling momfluencer with a knack for stealing the spotlight.

2021 October 17, Judy Berman, “You Season 3 Is the Best Installment Yet—and a Brilliant Send-Up of Suburbia”, in Time Magazine:

(Canada, US) Alternative form of mumfluencer.


editathon

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Usability and easiness are two key factors for users, as we noticed during the Ljubljana “editathon” and in individual and group test cases carried out.

2014, Silvia Orlandi, Raffaella Santucci, Vittore Casarosa, Information Technologies for Epigraphy and Cultural Heritage, page 196:

In September 2018, we brought together a group of 12 young women living in a slum resettlement colony in Delhi's urban edge to participate in a Wikipedia editathon.

2020, Mike Hodson, Julia Kasmire, Andrew McMeekin, Urban Platforms and the Future City:

Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margot Wallström, was so impressed with the success of the India–Sweden Wikipedia editathon in 2017 that she announced the #WikiGap editathons in March 2018 in 54 of its embassies […]

2021, Danny Burns, Jo Howard, Sonia M. Ospina, The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry, page 529:

(Internet) A collaborative group session of contributing edits to a wiki.


Generation Facebook

Facebook generation
Facebook generation#English


en-proverb

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what has been seen cannot be unseen#English

Alternative form of what has been seen cannot be unseen


sugma

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Used for its similarity to suck my (balls).

(chiefly Internet, humorous) An interjection designed to sound similar to “suck my” (especially used to trick a person into asking the meaning).


DuckDuckGo

The search engine website was founded by Gabriel Weinberg in 2008, who stated in 2009 that the name comes from duck, duck, goose.

(Internet) An Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results.


DuckDuckGo

en-verb

DuckDuckGo (third-person singular simple present DuckDuckGos, present participle DuckDuckGoing, simple past DuckDuckGoed or (humorous) DuckDuckWent, past participle DuckDuckGoed or (humorous) DuckDuckGone)

DuckDuckGos (present singular third-person)
DuckDuckGoing (participle present)
DuckDuckGoed (past)
DuckDuckWent (humorous past)
DuckDuckGoed (participle past)
DuckDuckGone (humorous participle past)

(Internet, transitive, rare) To search for (something) on the Internet using the DuckDuckGo search engine.


link building

However, you need to understand the difference between link building and link baiting before you go link crazy! The key to successful linking in content marketing is to achieve a healthy marriage of link building and link baiting: […]

2011, Susan Gunelius, Content Marketing For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 53:

search engine optimization
search engine optimization

(SEO) The process of establishing relevant links to a website from external sites for the purpose search engine optimization.


fantroll

Some are even disguised as so-called 'real Celine Fans' (fantrolls) who look for the opportunity to malign other people because they are insecure and unable to post their thoughts respectfully or intelligently about Celine or anything else!

1999 December 21, Docnoid, “What do you think of this NG?”, in alt.music.celine-dion (Usenet), retrieved 2021-12-24:

It must have really hurt a fantroll such as yourself to see Sony's pathetic E3 showing. Sony did take it upon themselves claim victory in the console wars, so that ought to be good enough for a fantroll.

2002 May 25, Mitch Crane, “PC was Best of Show at E3 2002”, in alt.games.video.xbox (Usenet), retrieved 2021-12-24:

I can see that your intentions are to contradict the fantrolls that come in here spreading misinfo.

2002 June 26, xslacks, “Is it just me or.....”, in microsoft.public.xbox (Usenet), retrieved 2021-12-24:

(fandom slang) An internet troll who is part of a fandom.


DMARC

(Internet) Acronym of domain-based message authentication, reporting and conformance: an email authentication protocol for the prevention of spoofing.


LEMP

The E stands for engine, since Nginx is pronounced "engine X".

(Internet software) Initialism of Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Perl: a combination of software for use as a web server.


Googleverse

(informal) The world or sphere of the Internet company Google.


memecoin

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But memecoins are simply online jokes converted into digital money, worth only what people are willing to pay for them. The most famous memecoin is Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency linked to a meme of a talking Shiba Inu puppy.

2024 July 27, David Yaffe-Bellany, “A Digital Coin Based on Baby Trump? Yup.”, in The New York Times:

Memecoins are seen as a gauge of retail interest and risk appetite in crypto. When memecoin activity ramps up, it usually indicates that retail investors are participating and have an appetite to speculate further out on the risk curve.

2024 November 12, Tanaya Macheel, “Dogecoin spikes after Trump announces a Department of Government Efficiency — DOGE”, in CNBC:

(cryptocurrencies) A cryptocurrency or token that is based on a meme or has a comedic trait.


e-club

An online club; a club that gathers over the Internet.


Sparta remix

From a video published on May 8, 2007 entitled "300 This is Sparta Remix!!!", which was a remix of that line from the 2006 film 300. That film is set in Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae.
This video's publication was followed in later months of 2007 by several other similar remixes of that line, all of which by 2008 inspired their base rhythm to be used for lines in other media, which generalized the term.

[See title]

2007 July 5, aznattic, Dramatic Rodent Sparta Remix, YouTube:

[See title]

2007 December 22, Graphic Gaming, This Is Caketown! (Sparta Remix), YouTube:

Asterpix Interactive Video - Hat of Discipline Sparta remix:
1st attempt at a Sparta remix

2008 December 30, @entertainvid168, Twitter:

A Sparta remix made entirely of sound effects is ridiculous. And hilarious. :D

I waste my time watching Sparta remixes.

2010 September 9, @BlackuStarr, Twitter:

Sparta remixes are the worst/best thing to happen to the internet.

Still boggles me that some people on here are genuinely too young to remember Sparta remixes.

Holy fuck - a Sparta Remix just came up on my recommended feed, and I feel like I deserve a fucking veteran's discount for remembering that those existed.

2019 December 20, @sapphyreblayze, Twitter:

Could anyone make a Sparta remix base but with Brazilian Miku theme?

2024 October 13, @StepsAsALWAY, Twitter:

(Internet) A type of video mashup, usually uploaded to YouTube, that remixes a single clip of dialogue (from a movie, video game, etc.), following a precise rhythm with little or no deviation from others of its kind.

300 (film)
Battle of Thermopylae
YouTube


object show

(Internet) An animated web-series, typically depicting a fictional game show, starring a cast of simply-drawn anthropomorphic objects.


accent tag

Hence, clearly the search facilities and strategies represent the “nightmare” aspect of trying to use YouTube for linguistic ... Examples include “Accent tag” videos (as in Figure 13, following something like a dialect questionnaire, ...

2016, Elena Seoane, Cristina Suárez-Gómez, World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 276:

There are also lots of examples on YouTube, such as the “Accent Tags,” though they have to be used with some caution since they are self-selected and may not always be the ideal representative of a particular dialect.

2017, Jeffrey Reaser, Carolyn Temple Adger, Walt Wolfram, Donna Christian, Dialects at School: Educating Linguistically Diverse Students, Routledge, →ISBN:

Kelly and the Konglish Accent Tag / Kelly, who usually posts videos about makeup and merch and has over 92,000 followers, took a departure from that genre one day to post a YouTube performance demonstrating her “English” and “Konglish” ...

2020, Betsy Rymes, How We Talk about Language: Exploring Citizen Sociolinguistics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 80:

A more recent source is the accent tag challenge on YouTube.12 It started out as a linguistic data collection project but gained its own dynamics when more and more people uploaded videos on YouTube reading the given word list and ...

2021, Marcus Callies, Stefanie Hehner, Philipp Meer, Michael Westphal, Glocalising Teaching English as an International Language: New Perspectives for Teaching and Teacher Education in Germany, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet) A video uploaded to YouTube in which a speaker signifies bits of English dialectal language distinctive to their region.


social commerce

a social commerce network

Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process.

2011 November 29, Adam Werbach, “How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save”, in The Guardian:

Social commerce is about using social media as “transactional media” to complete sales transactions, but in some of the most innovative cases of social commerce, no money changes hands.

2012, Paul Marsden, Paul Chaney, The Social Commerce Handbook, McGraw Hill Professional, →ISBN, page x:

Social media companies have been chasing the dream of “social commerce” for years, ramping up advertising and nudging their users toward buying and selling in hopes of getting a piece of the internet’s other most profitable business.

2021 October 2, John Herrman, “Will TikTok Make You Buy It?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(social media, business) A subset of electronic commerce that involves social media and user contributions to assist online buying and selling of products and services.


Tumblr

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From tumblelog, an early form of microblogs.

What is different about “quick blogging” tools like Twitter (which imposes a strict character count so it can be easily used on a cellphone) and Tumblr (which allows longer messages as well as photographs) is the degree to which people use them for spontaneous and almost continuous communication.

2007 November 4, Noam Cohen, “The Global Sympathetic Audience”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

There are other services for reporting where you’re traveling (Dopplr) or for quickly tossing online a stream of the pictures, videos or Web sites you’re looking at (Tumblr).

2008 September 5, Clive Thompson, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

If Facebook is the social network for online identification and authentication, and Twitter is for communication, Tumblr fulfils a different role: self-expression.

2012 March, Tom Cheshire, “Tumbling on success: How Tumblr's David Karp built a £500 million empire”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:

A microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007.


Tumblr

Fangirling on your own behind your computer screen is fine and dandy, but once you’ve seen the most popular fan blogs and fansites, the Tumblrs with the most followers, or the message boards where everyone seems to know one another, you’re gonna want in on that excellent fandom party.

2015, Sam Maggs, “Engage! Become an Active Member of Your Fandom”, in The Fangirl’s Guide to the Universe: A Handbook for Girl Geeks, Philadelphia, Pa.: Quirk Books, →ISBN:

But despite its confusing themes and erratic jump cuts between unnamed personas, the sentiments expressed are quite familiar to anyone who has visited the Tumblrs of teen girls – as are the images and linguistic choices.

2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, Routledge, →ISBN:

Like Cole, Myers also cites the 2014 Allied Media Conference as a turning point, an opportunity to meet many of the people behind the Tumblrs they followed and with whom they chatted.

2021, Moya Bailey, “Alchemists in Action against Misogynoir”, in Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women’s Digital Resistance, New York University Press, published 2022, →ISBN, page 168:


fansign

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From fan + sign. Initially gained popularity in the sense of a photograph of a person with an inscription in 2012. Gained popularity in the sense of a meet-and-greet with a K-pop artist in 2016.

Fansigns can go from okay to weird as fans are really known to show devotion and dedication to their idols […]

2013 March 12, rhysia.wordpress.com, Fansign? What the heck is that?! – Rhysia

(Internet) A photograph of a person with an inscription (often on the body or a piece of paper) used on the Internet as an autograph of a celebrity or as a sign of love for a celebrity from a fan.


voice over broadband

(Internet, telephony) A transmission technique that enables a user to make and receive telephone calls over a broadband connection.


digital sharecropping

Here's one: digital sharecropping will not be long for this world. Of all the terms that creators from the sharing economy will demand, the right to own their creativity will be central.

2008, Lawrence Lessig, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, Penguin, →ISBN:

When all is said and done, the notion of a hybrid economy turns out to be nothing more than an upbeat version of digital sharecropping, a scenario in which all of us have the right to remix sounds and images and spread them through networks that profit from our every move.

2014, Astra Taylor, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age, Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN:

intellectual property
intellectual property

(social media, derogatory) A system where the intellectual property generated by users is owned and sold by just a few digital platforms.


OOMF

[Jeremy O. Harris:] One of the things I worry about is that the little gay boys and girls I’m friends with don’t meet people their age IRL. They only know people through their oomfs, right? The oomfs run the world.
[Devan Shimoyama:] What’s “oomf”?
[Jeremy O. Harris:] An oomf is an “O.O.M.F.” — “one of my friends,” as in someone you know only in a digital space, from Twitter or Tumblr.

2022 September 16, Emil Wilbekin, “What Does It Mean to Be a Young, Black Queer Artist Right Now?”, in The New York Times Style Magazine:

(Internet slang) Acronym of one of my followers/friends.


OLD

(Internet) Abbreviation of online dating.


LMGIFY

(Internet) Initialism of let me google it for you.


user page

brugerside

(Internet) A page on a website associated with a particular user.

(wikis) The main page associated with a particular editor, often including autobiographical and personal content, testing and drafts, notices, etc.

(wikis, by extension, rare) Any page in the userspace, including a user subpage or talk page.


hellban

hellban (third-person singular simple present hellbans, present participle hellbanning, simple past and past participle hellbanned)

hellbans (present singular third-person)
hellbanning (participle present)
hellbanned (participle past)
hellbanned (past)


bird app

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Derived from the Twitter logo of a blue bird.

You're always on that damn bird app!

Another poll on the bird app has gone viral ... this time with the question being -- who's the baddest out of these 2 ladies???

2021 December 11, “SALMA HAYEK HOTTER THAN JENNIFER LOPEZ??? Twitter Says ... Absolutely”, in TMZ:

It’s easier to not open the bird app when I don’t want them instead of declaring a mass exodus.

2021 December 14, Ben Cost, quoting mh-Musings @entrespire, “Fans, haters are ‘deleting Twitter’ over ‘Spider-Man’ spoilers”, in New York Post:

(Internet slang, often derogatory) The social media application X, formerly Twitter.


studygram

Along with rewritten notes, Chen's studygram is full of colorful bullet journal pages.

2018, Paulina Klubok, Chloe Huang, & Jennifer Lu, "Behind the Photos: A Look Inside the Studyblr Community", The Stuyvesant Spectator (Stuyvesant High School), 2 February 2018, page 3

"It's mainly science or law students that have studygrams, and not a lot of arts students. […]

2019, Diana Lajenko, quoted in Caoimhe Killeen, "Study and Chill: A look at the studygram community", SIN: Student Independent News (National University of Ireland, Galway), 31 March 2020, page 9

Originating around 2014 on sites like Tumblr, the advent of studyblrs and studygrams has brought with it a culture of academia centered on thoughtful encouragement, aestheticism, and wellness.

2020, Aliza Li, "Study Culture", Her Culture, Fall 2020, page 39

(Internet slang) An Instagram account focused on studying or academia.


studyblr

As opposed to the average gifset, studyblrs tend to post or reblog aesthetic pictures of personal workspaces.

2015 October 22, Christine Chow, “It's all a blr: Motivating your study”, in The Silhouette, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, page 22:

Her studyblr serves as a visual diary of the work she puts into studying, and looking over it makes her proud of how far she's come.

2018, Paulina Klubok, Chloe Huang, & Jennifer Lu, "Behind the Photos: A Look Inside the Studyblr Community", 2 February 2018, page 3

However, studyblrs do acknowledge the difficulties that accompany being a student, especially those in graduate school.

2018, Bonnie Wong, Study Breaks, volume 30, number 5, page 39:

(Internet slang) A Tumblr blog focused on studying or academia.


Studygram

Yet, Diana would definitely encourage a lot more arts students to join the Studygram community.

2019, Caoimhe Killeen, "Study and Chill: A look at the studygram community", SIN: Student Independent News (National University of Ireland, Galway), 31 March 2020, page 9

[…] when she'd attempted to distract herself in religious studies by replicating a revision page with the neatest handwriting she'd seen on a Studygram page; […]

2021, Lucy Powrie, Ready with Pride: Book 2, unnumbered page:

Popular “Studygram” accounts showcase elaborately designed notes adorned with calligraphed titles and pastel color pallets.

2021 November 9, Noah Do, “Noah's Arc”, in The Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University, page 5:

(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented accounts on Instagram.


studygrammer

Like many other studygrammers, student Lydia of @lydia.studies presents many of her neat flashcards, notes, and flowcharts through her Instagram account.

2018 April 24, Catherine Seok, “Study Instagrams”, in The Prospector, Cupertino High School, Cupertino, CA, page 11:

Take a look at the hashtag on Instagram, and you'll find that these “studygrammers” love particular brands of Japanese pens, […]

2019 October 12, Moe Yagihara, “Get Back to School in Style”, in ORIGAMI Magazine, page 22:

The next “studygrammer” was a user under the name @studyingindigital, aka Amy Kilner, who lives in the United Kingdom as well.

2020, Fatima Jalloh, "Digital Notetaking", The Eagle Talon (Paxon School for Advanced Studies), November 2020, page 7

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on studying and academia.


Studyblr

The essence of studyblr is that it makes studying easier even in the face of your most hateful midterms and final exams.

2017, Fae Angelie Nas, "Studyblr: Studying with Pics and Figures", The Auditor (Bicol University, Legazpi City, Philippines), July 2017, page 6

Studyblr also has a large focus on collecting unique school supplies, particularly colorful writing utensils produced by many Japanese stationary companies.

2018 February, Sophia Liang, “Take note of new 'studyblr' trend”, in Eastside, Cherry Hill, NJ: Cherry Hill High School East, page 21:

Though the reign of the Lilly Pulitzer planner is long past, we still manage to convince ourselves every year that we will become the next icon of "Studyblr" and commence a desperate search for pastel highlighters, rainbow Post-it notes and, of course, the perfect gel pen.

2021 September 14, Abbigale Evans, Lexi Solomon, “Hokie, Hokie, Hokie buy: CT staffers' picks to peruse when your parents are in town”, in The Collegiate Times, Virginia Tech, page 5:

(Internet slang) The community of academic and studying-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


doomscroll

doomscroll (third-person singular simple present doomscrolls, present participle doomscrolling, simple past and past participle doomscrolled)

doomscrolls (present singular third-person)
doomscrolling (participle present)
doomscrolled (participle past)
doomscrolled (past)

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From doom + scroll, probably a back-formation from doomscrolling.

You doomscroll about all kinds of things including pandemics, racial injustice, natural disasters, wars, and political unrest.

2020, Robert West, chapter 1, in Stop Doomscrolling: How to Break the Cycle to Relieve Stress, Decrease Anxiety, and Regain Your Life, Annus Mirabilis Publishing:

“Why are you doomscrolling?” I ask. ¶ “I’m not doomscrolling.” Swipe, swipe...

2021, Jesse Gordon, “We’re All in This Together”, in El Cassetto, Cream-Colored Coffee Cup:

Keep a book in your bag to avoid the temptation to doomscroll.

2022 January 1, “100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying”, in The Guardian:

(transitive, intransitive, social media, technology, neologism) To engage in the act of doomscrolling.


Zoomland

From Zoom + -land, popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic when the video teleconferencing software Zoom became an increasingly common way to communicate.

Fun times in zoom land. #arbonne #goals #dreamchaser #herewegomarch #bettertogether #nation #team #determined [inlcuded in the post is a photo of a computer screen displaying a Zoom meeting]

2017 March 1, Sara Lytle, Instagram, retrieved 2022-01-10:

"And now the kids are back in Zoom-land with classes. They're doing it remotely," she [Michelle Obama] said in September.

2020 October 23, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, Virginia Chamlee, “The Obamas Share Rare Family Photo as Barack Says Sasha and Malia Have Bonded as 'Great Friends'”, in People, Meredith Corporation, archived from the original on 2020-12-01:

We had so much time when we were in Zoomland where we had to think, “Wait, why am I waking up and doing this again?”

2021 October 15, Jennifer Lu, “Workers quitting en masse is ‘a great thing,’ says workplace happiness expert—here’s why”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 2021-10-15:

(neologism) The proverbial place video teleconferences, particularly using the software Zoom, take place.


Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves (third-person singular simple present Asks Jeeves, present participle Asking Jeeves, simple past and past participle Asked Jeeves)

Asks Jeeves (present singular third-person)
Asking Jeeves (participle present)
Asked Jeeves (participle past)
Asked Jeeves (past)

From Ask Jeeves, a search engine named after Jeeves, a fictional valet in the works of P. G. Wodehouse.

Back then Google was still only a small private American company set up by two Stanford University students rather than a globally-recognised verb for finding information online. When we Asked Jeeves about progeria only 2,200 web pages appeared and many of those lacked hard information and facts.

2011, Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, Alison Stokes, “Kerry; Learning to Live with Progeria”, in Old Before My Time, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 23:

“I’ve Googled it, Binged it, and Asked Jeeves. They all say the same thing, but I’m not convinced.”

2015, Sarah Weeks, Honey, New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 53:

“Is Magda dead?” I Asked Jeeves. What I found were 626,000 web pages,[…]So I Asked Jeeves, “Does anyone named Magda live in Levant?” and found an African American woman named Magda Levant, living in Lubbock, Texas.[…]I clicked open the browser and Asked Jeeves, not the answer to my prayers—for there to be no death, for Walter to be here, with me, for me to return to my life back in Monlith, my life before Charlie, before any of this—for I knew no computer could deliver that. No, instead I Asked Jeeves for a way to take action, some help in my effort to make the world a better place, death and all. Walter would have been so proud. “How does one solve a mystery?” I typed. And then, for good measure, I added the word “murder” before “mystery,” since this was indeed what I was dealing with. I scrolled down the search results.[…]I thought to offer the neighbor my wisdom, everything I had learned since I had Asked Jeeves how to solve Magda’s murder.

2020, Ottessa Moshfegh, Death in Her Hands, pages 70, 71, 78, and 206:

(Internet) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.


ask box

One post on Tumblr by user penfairy begins with an ask-box submitted question reading "I didn't know there were Austen gay otps (I'm very sheltered). Could you tell me what they are, please?" […]

2019, Holly Luetkenhaus, Zoe Weinstein, Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans, page 102:

I whip out my phone. “Here, I'll message you on Tumblr right now.”
Gabi opens her ask box. "Touch your clit?"

2020, Amanda Harlowe, Consensual Hex, unnumbered page:

[…] “I may not like Real Madrid, but if a Madridista [a fan of Real Madrid] comes into my askbox and asks me politely for art of their fave, the chances that I’ll oblige them are pretty good.”

2021, Anna, quoted in Jessica Kunert, "The Footy Girls of Tumblr: How Women Found Their Niche in the Online Football Fandom", Communication & Support, Volume 9, Issue 2, pages 255-256

(Internet) The inbox in which asks (messages) sent to a Tumblr blog are received.


anon meme

For the past several years, the anon meme weighed in on each and every one, replacing the norms of the broader fanfic community about constructive feedback with sometimes brutal attacks on the writing, the art–and the fan writers themselves.

2012, Katherine Larsen, Lyn Zubernis, Fandom at the Crossroads: Celebration, Shame and Fan/producer Relationships, page 120:

LJ’s spnanonhaven is an anon meme community where fans comment anonymously on posts related to all aspects of Supernatural fandom.

2014, Joseph Brennan, 'Fandom is full of pearlclutching old ladies' : Nonnies in the online slash closet, volume 17, number 4:

On the anon meme failfandom_anon many fans describe how they have left their fandom or, at least, have stopped reading and engaging on Tumblr because of the highly aggressive atmosphere.

2018, Kristina Busse, “Afterword: Fannish Affect and Its Aftermath”, in Rebecca Williams, editor, Everybody Hurts: Transitions, Endings, and Resurrections in Fan Cultures, page 217:

(fandom slang) An online space (typically a LiveJournal or Dreamwidth community) used for anonymous fannish discussion.


Yasha

(computing, Internet) nickname for Yandex (Russian slang)


EduTwitter

Once upon a time, “EduTwitter” was full of promise and highlighted teaching at its best.

2018 October 22, Joseph Bispham, “Don't get sucked into trad vs prog on EduTwitter”, in Times Educational Supplement:

EduTwitter is an incredible source of information for educators. I know I wouldn't be in teaching any more if I hadn't joined Twitter in September 2014.

2019, Victoria Hewitt, Making it as a Teacher: How to Survive and Thrive in the First Five Years, unnumbered page:

When one scrolls through the EduTwitter feed and witnesses the amount of self-flagellation and denigration going on at our own hands, one realises the power that a sprinkling of self-compassion could have for our workforce.

2020, Angela Browne, Lighting the Way: The Case for Ethical Leadership in Schools, page 92

(Internet) The community of teachers and education-focused users on Twitter.


MCN

(Internet) Initialism of multichannel network.


danmaku

(Internet) A form of moving subtitles used on videos posted on social media.