petfluencer

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

That is why there are so many cat videos on the internet, creating cat celebrities and “petfluencers,” animals that help to sell products online.

2021, Penelope Rich, Cat Tales: True Stories of Fantastic Felines:

[…] And as you all know, petfluencers are increasingly attractive to film companies.' 'Wasn't there a hairless cat in an Austin Powers film once?' someone asks.

2022, Kirstie Pelling, Life's a Catastrophe:

(social media, marketing) An animal used as an influencer.

You see, it's too late for me to become one of those 'petfluencers' – a tastemaker, babbling on about the latest trends in sundresses for coonhounds or why you should be using jewel-encrusted poop bags.

2019, Vincent J. Musi, The Year of the Dogs, page 146:

(social media, marketing) A human influencer who uses an animal for this purpose.


foodstagrammer

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Below is a list of my top ten favorite foodstagrammers (in no particular order) who inspire me in all my food photography endeavors.

2015 March 17, Michelle Banayan, “Food Instagrams”, in The Justice, Brandeis University, page 24:

Amateur foodstagrammers may also attempt to build popularity through their photos and break into the professional realm.

2016 November, Beth Steinmann, “Are Food Selfies Out of Control?”, in Benicio Magazine, page 18:

But even this foodstagrammer can struggle to find new places to eat, great bars that aren't my normal haunts, places to take a date, or even just a new cafe with WiFi.

2019 July, Michael Muñoz, “Eaters of Habit”, in W42ST, page 41:

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on food and cooking.


foodstagram

en-noun

foodstagram (countable and uncountable, plural foodstagrams)

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One recent "Overheard of the Week" encapsulates foodstagram culture, as one friend remarks to her breakfast companion: "Get the toast, it's more photogenic."

2014, Michelle Salzman Boston, "Foodstagram", USC Dornsife Magazine (David and Dana Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences), Fall 2014/Winter 2015, page 25

In the 'foodstagram' generation, where photos from cafés and restaurants are shared more for their artful design than for their bold or daring flavors, Dans Le Noir is a reminder of the importance of taste.

2016, Emily Bull, "Eyes For Food", Woroni (Australian National University), Week 3, Semester 2 (2016), page 25

Come try out these great restaurants to capture that next foodstagram shot and make all your followers crave your foodie lifestyle.

2016 May, Danielle Gumina, Sara Hyland, “Appetite For Aperture”, in Locale, page 36:

(uncountable, Internet slang) The community of foodies and food-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of food.

I decided to make my foodstagram a team effort by inviting my roommate to join me.

2018 April 24, Christina Mitchell, “Using 'foodstagram' to explore city, Main Campus”, in The Temple News, Temple University, page 5:

Running a “foodstagram” has helped me expand my tastes and push me outside my comfort zone.

2018, Meredith George (@Omaha.Feast), quoted in "Meet Our Instagram Foodie Consultants", Omaha Magazine, July/August 2018, page 65

Yu created her foodstagram after she came to college and realized that living in D.C. provided her with a special opportunity to experience new cuisines and different cultural foods.

2020 February 28, Emma Ginsberg, “Foodstagrams Offer Tasty Recipes, Detailed Reviews”, in The Hoya, Georgetown University, page B10:

(countable, Internet slang) An individual food-focused account on Instagram.

In a food-driven city like Austin, posting a foodstagram is almost inevitable.

2015, Ashley Lopez, "A Taste of Koko", Orange Magazine, Spring 2015, page 38

The creative donuts are worth the long line and the shameless compulsory foodstagram.

2016 March 22, Kallyn Hobmann, Rachel Finegold, Amanda Yoo, “Spring break in L.A.”, in The Arrow, Westlake High School, West Lake, CA, page 7:

Users are sharing “foodstagrams” with their social media networks in unprecedented numbers.

2016, Sarah Emily Gilbert, "Too Pretty Too Eat", Urban Agenda Magazine, Summer 2016, page 13

(countable, Internet slang) An artful photo of food posted to Instagram.


foodstagram

en-verb

foodstagram (third-person singular simple present foodstagrams, present participle foodstagramming, simple past and past participle foodstagrammed)

foodstagrams (present singular third-person)
foodstagramming (participle present)
foodstagrammed (participle past)
foodstagrammed (past)

Mike Madison “foodstagrammed” one of his favorites from La Belle Vie: Pata negra with marcona almond, toasted sesame and apple.

2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E1:

So what’s the most foodstagrammed meal?[…]When tastes are broken down on a city-by-city basis, London comes out as the most popular place for foodstagramming burgers, accounting for five per cent of posts worldwide.

2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:

So when you’re settling down to beachside dinner or home takeout this long weekend, say “no” to unsustainable packaging you don’t need, and “yes” to foodstagramming and celebrating the delicious food Vancouver’s diverse culinary scene has to offer.

2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11:

(Internet slang) To post a photo of food on Instagram.


FAAMG

en-noun

FAAMG (countable and uncountable, plural FAAMGs)

(technology) One or more of the technology companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.


shocked Pikachu

shocked Pikachu (plural shocked Pikachus)

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From an Internet meme based on a screencap of Pikachu with a shocked expression from the 1997 episode "Bulbasaur and the Hidden Village" of the animated series Pokémon: Indigo League.

Olivia's shocked-Pikachu face shifts into a full-on scowl.

2020, Anna Meriano, “Just Tell Them You Play Soccer”, in Game On: 15 Stories of Wins, Losses, and Everything in Between, page 180:

I swear to god I had both of my eyes bulging out with my mouth wide open looking like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Sunehar Aneja, Angela Mathew, editors, And The Dandelions Fell Apart, page 83:

She didn't have to look so friggin' surprised about it. Like a shocked Pikachu.

2021, Yayoi Ogawa, translated by Rose Padgett, Knight of the Ice 7, page 56:

(Internet slang) A Pikachu with a specific open-mouthed, erect-ear expression signifying shock and astonishment, especially regarding something that one should have expected.


subcomment

(Internet) A comment posted on a forum etc. that is hierarchically beneath another comment, and usually in reply to it.


CIPA

(US, law, Internet) Acronym of Children's Internet Protection Act.


DASH

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP
w:Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP

(web development, video) Acronym of Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP.

web development; video; web development; video


gimmick account

gimmick account (plural gimmick accounts)

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(Internet slang, social media) An account dedicated to posting a specific niche of (usually humorous) content.

A social media account that parodies a public figure or brand.


Wojak

Etymology tree
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojak
From the Internet meme Wojak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with a wistful or melancholic expression. The original image was posted on vichan, a Polish imageboard, in 2009, and was later reposted to the German imageboard krautchan in 2010 by a Polish user called "wojak"; the username is from Polish wojak (“soldier; fighter”).

etymon

From the original manifestation of a wistful look to the meme of two Wojaks hugging with the tag “I know that feel bro,” he has taken on contexts in male-dominated internet spaces that signify a brotherhood of sorts.

2020, Soham Gadre, “Inside the Male-Dominated Meme Hijacked by Lib-Bashing Trumpsters”, in Daily Beast:

Owing to their coarsely drawn, unyielding masculine outlines, Wojaks are especially compatible with efforts to channel aggression.

2021, Jeffrey Demsky, Nazi and Holocaust Representations in Anglo-American Popular Culture, 1945–2020, page 112:

These figures, which regularly appear as characters in other meme formats, make variants of Doomer (male, female, boy, etc.) one of the most prevalent meme tropes of the early 2020s, with both a vertical reach (as straight copies of the original Doomer format) and a horizontal one (as variants in form, gender, and age, and, since late 2020, race – with Black Wojaks going viral).

2021, Mike Watson, The Memeing of Mark Fisher: How the Frankfurt School Foresaw Capitalist Realism and What To Do About It, page 50:

(Internet slang) An online image of a crudely-drawn person, often with a melancholic expression, with an art style based upon the original Wojak.


blogazine

Jezebel began in 2007 as a feminist break-out from the blogazine Gawker.

2014, Sarah Himsel Burcon, Fabricating the Body, page 136:

(Internet) A website that publishes articles, with elements of a blog and a magazine.


Tumblrer

“I actually was just reading on Tumblr ... someone said, ‘Oh my god, I just finished Husk. I was empathizing with zombies, what’s wrong with me?’ ”[…]But much like that horrified Tumblrer, we do find ourselves on his side throughout, from his first taste of a morgue attendant to a surprisingly touching finale.

2012 October 25, David Berry, “In a zombie state of mind”, in National Post, volume 14, number 300, page B7:

Various Artists, “Christmas Rules” – At last, a Starbucks comp for everyone, from skinny-jeaned Instagrammers to Dockers-hugged Tumblrers.

2012 December 21, Albany Democrat-Herald, volume 146, number 306, page 9:

Tumblr emails me to say that I wrote the only Tumblr post ever to cause the White House to release a statement about it, and I email her back to say that this has been a pretty wild ride and I am a very lucky Tumblrer so far.

2014, David Shapiro, You’re Not Much Use to Anyone, New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 157:

A user of the microblogging and social networking site Tumblr.


transwiki

en-verb

transwiki (third-person singular simple present transwikis, present participle transwikiing, simple past and past participle transwikied)

transwikis (present singular third-person)
transwikiing (participle present)
transwikied (participle past)
transwikied (past)

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From trans- + wiki; coined in 2003 in the Wikimedia context.

Teams offers the option of a wiki for each team, so go ahead and use those wikis and we'll just transwiki as needed.

This is the Wikia Pro Wrestling transwiki log.

2007 June 29, Jaydvb, “Pro Wrestling:Transwiki”, in Fandom, retrieved 2022-02-16:

This project or template has a transwiki guide to help editors adapt it to a remote wiki when this cannot be done by simply copying the codes of one single template.

2018 January 15, Robertinventor, “Template:Transwiki guide”, in Encyclopedia of Buddhism, retrieved 2022-02-16:

(originally Wikimedia jargon, wiki jargon) To move content from one wiki to another, on sites such as Wikimedia projects, Fandom, or PBworks, or in apps such as Microsoft Teams (wiki function therein).


Instamom

2015 November 14, Hayley Krischer, “Meet the Instamom, a Stage Mother for Social Media”, in The New York Times:

My advice for new mamas is to take all those beautiful Instamom photos with a grain of salt, because a carefully cropped square leaves the rest of a person's reality out of the frame.

2019, Leslie Anne Bruce, You Are a F*cking Awesome Mom: So Embrace the Chaos, Get Over the Guilt, and Be True to You, unnumbered page:

The sampling consisted of five Instamoms with more than 100,000 followers recruited using purposive sampling.

2021, Arzu Kalafat Çat, “Virtual Identities And Self-Presentation In Social Media Instagram Mothers”, in Enes Emre Başar, Pınar Bacaksız, editors, New Paradigms within the Communication Sciences, page 181:

(informal) A mother who runs an Instagram account focused on her child/children or motherhood in general.


BookTok

The biggest difference between the other communities and BookTok is the length of the videos.

2021 February 23, Carly Pearce, “BookTok? A Gen-Z guide to literature”, in Epigram, Bristol University, page 20:

Frazier agreed, saying BookTok has the power to determine what novels are popular […]

2021 September 9, Maddy Franklin, “The rise of BookTok”, in The Red & Black, University of Georgia, page A7:

BookTok seems to be a gateway to a reading hobby for many users.

2022 February 1, Lara Mellett, “Inside the World of BookTok”, in Trinity News, Trinity College Dublin, page 13:

BookTok is not dominated by the usual power players in the book world such as authors and publishers but by regular readers, many of them young, who share recommendations and videos of themselves talking about the books they love, sometimes weeping or screaming or tossing a copy across the room.

2022 July 1, Elizabeth A. Harris, “How TikTok Became a Best-Seller Machine”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The community of book- and reading-oriented accounts on TikTok.


BookTok

As you consider the ways you might include BookToks in your classroom, we ask that you are mindful of these critical components that make BookTok so unique and relevant to its users[…]

2021 October 8, Sarah Jerasa, Trevor Boffone, “BookTok 101: TikTok, Digital Literacies, and Out-of-School Reading Practices”, in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy:

In my case, the BookToks I see thanks to the algorithm are related to my genres of preference such as historic fiction, young adult, sci-fi, and books popular in my age group.

2021 November 3, Scharina Bencosme, “The Enchanting World of BookTok”, in The Outlook, volume 94, number 7, Monmouth University, page 8:

Blogging, YouTubing, vlogging, instagramming, microblogging and podcasting—or, more specifically, book blogging (Driscoll, 2019; Steiner, 2010), booktubing, (Tomasena, 2019; Vizcaíno-Verdú et al., 2019; de Leusse, 2017; de Lourdes López López, 2017; Sorensen & Mara, 2014), bookstagramming (Jaakkola, 2019), sharing BookToks (Merga, 2021) or booktwittering—are distinct practices of using social media, and reviewing—or, for example, reviewing books—embedded in these forms of communication.

2022, Maarit Jaakkola, Reviewing Culture Online: Post-Institutional Cultural Critique across Platforms, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 110:

A book- or reading-oriented video on TikTok.


Instamum

She marvelled at how lucrative kids-as-content seemed to be. Instamums at Disneyland and on cruises, snaps showing improbably perfect houses filled with improbably perfect children.

2019, Sophie White, Filter This, unnumbered page:

It's little wonder that so many of us struggling with parental burnout became attracted to the rise of imperfect parenting blogs and these 'real' Instamums.

2021, Kate Baily, Mandy Manners, Dawn Nickel, Love Yourself Sober: A Self Care Guide to Alcohol-Free Living for Busy Mothers, unnumbered page:

I never planned to be an Instamum. For a long time, I wasn't sure I'd be a mum at all.

2021, Ellery Lloyd, People Like Her, unnumbered page:


Instadad

With Instadads making their mark on social media, Catherine Hudson checks out their must-haves

2017 March, Catherine Hudson, “Who's the daddy?”, in Gurgle, page 81:

The Instadad (@therealburrmartin) has more followers than his daughter, standing at almost 153,000.

2018 March 1, “5 questions for...Instadad Burr Martin”, in Big Daddy, page 11:

As torchbearers for an unapologetically involved form of fatherhood, the Instadads congregate, share advice, and provide support to each other, as well as a growing audience of male and female parents on Instagram.

2020, Mario Campana, Astrid Van den Bossche, Bryoney Miller, “#dadtribe: Performing Sharenting Labourto Commercialise Involved Fatherhood”, in Journal of Macromarketing, volume 40, number 4:

(informal) A father who runs an Instagram account focused on his child/children or fatherhood in general.


cleanfluencer

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

Instagram 'cleanfluencer' Mrs Hinch says cleaning helped her tackle her anxiety.

2019, Laura Jane Williams, The Life Diet: How to Let in What Makes You Happy, and Let Go of Everything Else, unnumbered page:

He will never understand the joy I feel at being a cleanfluencer, nor feel the buzz I get when tens of my followers contact me to tell me how I've encouraged them to organise their clutter.

2020, J. A. Andrew, Behind Her Smile, unnumbered page:

In comparison to the Zoflora-scented cult that's grown up around @mrshinch, Lynsey Crombie, aka @lynsey_queenofclean, a blonde 40-year-old cleanfluencer from Petersborough, offers a cosier roster of domestic aphorisms.

2020, Sally Howard, The Home Stretch: Why It's Time to Come Clean About Who Does the Dishes, unnumbered page:

(neologism, rare) An influencer who gives advice on housekeeping and cleaning products.


Instafame

A perfect example of “Instafame” or a social media celebrity is Benjamin Lasnier, a teenage boy from Denmark, who achieved fame almost entirely through Instagram and YouTube.

2015, Pavica Sheldon, Social Media: Principles and Applications, page 43:

Ulman's project was an acerbic take on “Instafame,” a phenomenon that is reshaping and redefining the very idea of a “star” and their relationship to their audience.

2019, Daniel Palmer, Kate Warren, “Scarlett Johansson Falling Down: Memes, Photography and Celebrity Personas”, in Janice Loreck, Kirsten Stevens, Whitney Monaghan, editors, Screening Scarlett Johansson: Gender, Genre, Stardom, page 127:

Race is both a visible and invisible element of [rupi] kaur's social media success and journey to Instafame.

2021, L. Aya Saraswati, Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie, page 50:

The state or quality of being well-known or popular on Instagram.


sharent

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Back-formation from sharenting. Analyzable as blend of share + parent.

If you're not one yourself, you've probably come across one, perhaps even taken advantage of apps such as Unbaby.me, which helpfully replaces the endless feed of baby pictures with images of cats or, if you prefer, bacon. Because sharents have a tendency to get a little … carried away.

2013 May 18, Nione Meakin, “The pros and cons of 'sharenting'”, in The Guardian:

During the interview, Maya told me that she was a passionate sharent; she loved to post about her son and tell stories about his life.

2020, Veronica Barassi, Child Data Citizen: How Tech Companies Are Profiling Us from Before Birth, page 134:

Through YouTube channels, blogs, Instagram accounts, and other digital platforms, commercial sharents use their families' everyday experiences to create revenue-generating content that is available to the public.

2020, Leah A. Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, page 55:

(neologism) A parent who documents their child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.


sharent

sharent (third-person singular simple present sharents, present participle sharenting, simple past and past participle sharented)

sharents (present singular third-person)
sharenting (participle present)
sharented (participle past)
sharented (past)

If you are going to sharent, it's worth being careful about the privacy settings you establish.

2016, Suzie Hayman, John Coleman, Parents and Digital Technology: How to Raise the Connected Generation, page 46:

Adults are sharenting because the structure of the online world makes it very easy to do and even encourages it.

2020, John Palfrey, forward of Leah A. Plunkett, Sharenthood: Why We Should Think Before We Talk About Our Kids Online, page X

Thus, this study aimed to ascertain how Australian parents are sharenting on social media, and to understand both their awareness of risk, and their perceptions of their children's rights to privacy.

2021, Anna Potter, Renee Barnes, “The 'Sharent' Trap: Parenting in the Digital Age and a Child's Right to Privacy”, in Catherine Archer, Donell Holloway, Francesca Stocco, Karen Murcia, Michele A. Willson, editors, Young Children's Rights in a Digital World: Play, Design and Practice, page 286:

(neologism) To document one's child's upbringing on social media, typically by posting photos, videos, etc.


BookToker

Local romance and New York Times bestselling author Katee Robert has always had a devoted fanbase, but, this past year, her readership has grown to include an ever-increasing number of “BookTokers,” that is, TikTok users and accounts devoted to reading recommendations.

2021 May 30, Stephanie Hammett, “Romance writer ‘mildly obsessed with fairy tales and retellings’”, in The Spokesman-Review, 138th volume, number 356, Spokane, Wash., page D1:

"She puts her characters through the most insane situations," says Kendra Keeter-Gray, a 23-year-old Los Angeles-based BookToker and associate producer.[…]"I feel like we all just want to feel something so badly," says 19-year-old college student and BookToker Samawia Akhter.

2022 January 24, Stephanie Merry, “On TikTok, crying is encouraged. Colleen Hoover gets the job done.”, in The Boston Globe, volume 301, number 24, page C10:

BookTokers aestheticise not only the reading lifestyle, but the books themselves, with many members of the community choosing to buy books from-new.

2022 February 1, Lara Mellett, “Inside the world of BookTok: Where social media meets the printing press”, in Trinity News, volume 68, number 6, page 14:

A member of the BookTok community on TikTok.


foodstagramming

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Dayton maintains the policy isn’t designed to prohibit all foodstagramming.

2013 February 6, Aimee Blanchette, “Local chefs say their food is camera-ready”, in Star Tribune, volume XXXI, number 308, page E10:

How ‘foodstagramming’ has changed the way we deal with our grub writes James P. Hall.[…]At the same time, certain restaurants in the U.S. and France have banned customers from taking pictures of their dishes, or “foodstagramming,” as it has become known.[…]Pizza tops the list when it comes to foodstagramming:[…]

2016 November 9, James P. Hall, “Bringing our food into focus”, in Vancouver Sun, page C7:

Nowhere as in the current era of food porn and foodstagramming, star-chefs and cooking TV show, can the short-circuit between seeing and tasting be observed.

2018, Andrea Pavoni, “Introduction”, in Andrea Pavoni, Danilo Mandic, Caterina Nirta, Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos, editors, Taste (Law and the Senses), University of Westminster Press, →ISBN, page 31:

On the one hand, the trend of “foodstagramming” is still going strong, with 69 per cent of millennials capturing the perfect foodie snap before eating.

2019 May 22, Robert Phelps, “Enjoy great food in sustainable packaging”, in Vancouver Sun, page A11:

Despite the popularity of foodstagramming, the studies about this social phenomenon are rare, with little if any academic literature reporting on it to date (Wong et al., 2019). In this study, the subject of sharing food experience is examined by addressing the related social media platforms. It focuses on foodstagramming as a prominent subject and its possible effects in terms of user-generated content (UGC) and electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM).

2022, Sevinc Goktepe, Merve Aydogan Cifci, Mehmet Altug Sahin, “Sharing photos of food traveler experiences: a case study of foodstagramming”, in Dogan Gursoy, Rahul Pratap Singh Kaurav, editors, Handbook on Tourism and Social Media (Research Handbooks in Tourism), Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 437:

(Internet slang) The act of posting photos of food to Instagram.


private message

en-noun

private message (plural private messages)

By then I was receiving dozens of private messages in the game every hour from players I had never met who could see that my guildmate and I were out front: “OMG how did you level so fast?,” “Hey you must have a lot of gold, can I have some?” and of course “You guys are huge nerds.”

2007 January 19, Seth Schiesel, “O Brave New World That Has Such Gamers in It”, in The New York Times:

(Internet) A message sent to another user of a social media or chat platform through a private channel as opposed to a publicly accessible area or chatroom.

privaatboodskap

communication to an individual social media user


private message

en-verb

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

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


FaCIAbook

Blend of Facebook + CIA, suggesting that the site has an ulterior motive of spying on its users, or is a tool of the US government.

All teh Important People have moved-on to FaciaBook...

2016 March 22, ah, “Friday, June 25 2015”, in demon.local (Usenet):

Parliament has used its legal powers to seize internal Facebook [FaCIAbook] documents in an extraordinary attempt to hold the US social media giant to account after chief executive Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly refused to answer MPs' questions.

2018 December 3, jgsh...@aol.com, “You Saw This? Re: NY AG agrees to submit evidence of unprosecuted 9/11 federal crimes relating to destruction of WTCs to Special Criminal Grand Jury”, in peopleofCA12 (Google Groups):

Facebook takes down Trump campaign ads for 'violating our policy against organized hate' Facebook [FaCIAbook] on Thursday said it had take action against ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign for breaching its policies on hate. The ads, which attacked what the Trump campaign described as "Dangerous MOBS of far-left groups," featured an upside-down triangle... The ads targeted the far left group Antifa, calling on Trump supporters to back the President's calls to designate the group a terrorist organization. Responding to criticism of the ad earlier Thursday, the Trump campaign said the red triangle was "a symbol widely used by Antifa."

2020 July 19, Lori Price, “Protest in Albany as NY State Bar Association Walks Back COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Recommendation”, in I Hate Trump Fan Club (Google Groups):

(Internet slang, derogatory, rare) The social networking site Facebook.


deez nuts

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After a bit of back-and-forth, the man suddenly shouts “Deez nuts!”, and since then, it’s become a viral joke.

2021 May 8, “TikTok: What are 'Deez Nuts' Jokes?”, in HITC, archived from the original on 2022-04-14:

Nick Saban is known for his solemn and stern demeanor. So when Alabama safety Jordan Battle revealed his head coach has an affinity for "deez nuts" jokes, it was both shocking and hilarious.

2021 September 21, “Mac Jones confirms Nick Saban's love for 'deez' jokes”, in NBC Sports:

It's got crunchy mixed in frozen fruits and is designed to be eaten with a spoon. Hard to make fun of deez nuts in our mouth.

2022 January 18, “This peanut butter made for gamers actually sounds delicious”, in PC Gamer:

The best part is, of course, when he says “it’s time for love and unity” after flipping everyone off and shortly before telling them to suck “deez nuts.”

2022 March 11, “Kid Rock Is So Unoriginal, He Made the Same Bad Music Video All Over Again”, in Metal Sucks:

(Internet slang, humorous) these nuts (testicles)


subathon

All of this is part of what is known on Twitch as a “subathon.” A subathon is a short period of time when a streamer will engage in certain activities or stunts to accrue paid subscriptions to his or her channel.

2021 March 18, Taylor Lorenz, “The Endless Stream”, in The New York Times:

“Have fun going home in a chair not ergonomically designed for extended subathons, loser!”

2024 August 12, Jenny McCarthy, “Ex-Boyfriend Island” (1:04 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 5, episode 5, spoken by Jesse (Mary Mack):

(Internet, Twitch-speak) A live stream (especially on Twitch) intended to gain subscribers, especially one whose duration is extended every time the streamer receives a subscription.


tube site

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From tube (“television”), probably more immediately from YouTube, a very popular (but not pornographic) video-sharing site.

www.CAMGIRLS.com is just a white label for now, but I can buy 1,000,000 banner impressions on Tube sites for $30 and it's very *clicky*!

2011 July 15, Graham Cooper, “SKEPTIC LOGIC AT IT'S FINEST”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

The general sentiment is that the porn business crash around 2008 was due to the rise of widescale piracy on tube sites and torrents, an increase in amateur porn, and the Great Recession.

2014 October 23, David Auerbach, “Vampire Porn”, in Slate:

Although txcollegeboys features amateurs, and although its videos are uploaded to the amateur section of a major tube site, the account is itself a for-profit.

2016, Bonnie Ruberg, “Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography”, in Porn Studies:

(Internet) A website for the uploading and playback of pornographic videos.


GMail

There is a major controversy brewing around GMail, the “free” e-mail service from Google providing 1 gigabyte of free storage, far more than any other ISP offers.

2004, Paul Greenberg, CRM at the Speed of Light, Third Edition: Essential Customer Strategies for the 21st Century, page 120:

I got in to the oh-so-awesome GMail network courtesy of a friend last week. Now, another e-mail id to look after? That is not exactly convenient.

2004 May 18, Sushubh Mittal, “Google GMail – The Email Experience”, in Search Engine Journal:

Maybe you like GMail so much you want to switch ALL your e-mail to it.

2007, Tara Calishain, Information Trapping: Real-time Research on the Web, page 231:

(trademark) Alternative letter-case form of Gmail


Stan Twitter

Stan Twitter and fans of Tinashe's pop agenda have been craving the release, thanks to lead 2016 single "Superlove."

2017, "Fall semester smashes", The Spectrum (University at Buffalo), 18 September 2017, page 6

Stan Twitter has kept going even when 1D [One Direction] didn't.

2020, "Grace", quoted in Hannah Ewens, Fangirls: Scenes from Modern Music Culture, page 170

Even if she only gets to see her friends from Stan Twitter at concerts, their friendship is genuine.

2020 October 7, Dylan Yono, “Twitter stans and superfans”, in The Michigan Daily, The University of Michigan, page 11:

(Internet) A community of fans on Twitter, centering around shared interest in celebrities, television shows, movies, and social media.


blawger

Attorneys are finding fans (and some fame) by posting legal commentary on the Internet. Here's a look at four such blawgers.

2003, ABA Journal, March 2003, page 2 (table of contents)

First, there is fear that the lack of accountability conferred by the cloak of anonymity will permit blawgers to make false or scurrilous claims.

2009, Judy M. Cornett, "The Ethics of Blawging: A Genre Analysis", Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Volume 41, Issue 1, Fall 2009, page 240

Intellectual property lawyers are perhaps the most enthusiastic blawgers.

2011, Peter Groves, A Dictionary of Intellectual Property Law, page 32:

(Internet) A person who runs a blawg (law blog).


blawgosphere

Right now large firms are underrepresented in the "blawgosphere."

2005, "Between Lawyers Roundtable: The Future of Legal Blogging", Law Practice Magazine, July/August 2005

While the number of judge-authored blawgs is less than the number of blawgs published by other members of the legal community, such as attorneys or law professors, they do have a presence in the blawgosphere that cannot be denied.

2009, Brian A. Craddock, “2009: A Blawg Odyssey: Exploring How the Legal Community Is Using Blogs and How Blogs are Changing the Legal Community”, in Mercer Law Review^(https://ursa.mercer.edu/bitstream/handle/10898/9195/62_60MercerLRev1353(2008).pdf?sequence=1), volume 60, number 4, page 1359:

Women are underrepresented throughout legal academia from the ranks of professors down to the “blawgosphere” of law professor blogging.

2021, Dara E. Purvis, “Legal Education as Hegemonic Masculinity”, in Villanova Law Review, volume 65, number 5, page 1145:

(Internet) The totality of blawgs (law blogs); the community of blawgers.


duckroll

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From duck + roll. In 2006, Christopher "Moot" Poole implemented a wordfilter replacing egg with duck on 4chan, causing instances of eggroll on the site to become duckroll. This inspired an anonymous 4chan user to create an image macro featuring a duck with wheels edited onto its body and the caption "duckroll." The image was later used to prank 4chan users, who were lured into clicking what was presented as an interesting link, but instead lead to the "duckroll."

You told me that it was a really nice picture, but all I see is a duckroll.

Duckroll became a silly prank meme when 4chan users started linking their friends to an ostensibly cool site, only to be met with a picture of a duck on wheels with the word duckroll written on it.

2011, Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, page 60:

Examples of bait-and-switch images and videos include The Hampster Dance, Duckroll, Rickroll, […]

2015, Jamie Bartlett, The Dark Net: Inside the Digital Underworld, page 251:

When you've been around to witness Rickrolling go from a forced-meme variant of the traditional 4chan Duckroll to having Rick Astley himself sing “Never Gonna Give You Up,” unannounced and on live national television, during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade last year, it's hard to ignore how crucial the 4chan-spawned Anonymous “Hivemind” has been to the development of internet culture since its inception six years ago.

2022, Carlos Avitia-Velazquez, Javier Avitia-Velazquez, Curb Children, unnumbered page:

(Internet slang) A bait-and-switch Internet prank involving the sharing of a link that leads to a picture of a duck on wheels instead of what is claimed.


flamemail

en-noun

flamemail (countable and uncountable, plural flamemails)

Such knee-jerk reactions will usually lead to a volume of unwanted, unnecessary and uncomfortable flamemail directed at you and occasionally every company e-mail address that the Internet rovers can find.

1998, Public Relations Quarterly, volume 43, page 32:

Flamemails may be used as a shield for the manager who lacks the skills of face-to-face communication or for someone who would rather avoid any type of direct confrontation with others.

2009, Lynda Macdonald, Tolley's Managing Email & Internet Use, page 32:

A commercial and retail bank employee sends a “flamemail”. The defamatory email details experiences with an identified customer. It is circulated internally, but someone leaks it.

2013, Tracey Walker, Reputation Matters, page 169:

(Internet) Aggressively insulting email.


burgir

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Internet) Pronunciation spelling of burger.


Googlemania

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(uncommon, Internet slang) An obsession or fixation with the search engine Google.


Googlemaniac

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(uncommon, Internet slang) A person exhibiting Googlemania.


Google is your friend

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(Internet slang) A suggestion that the addressee could learn something using an Internet search engine, rather than asking others.


Googlise

en-verb

Googlise (third-person singular simple present Googlises, present participle Googlising, simple past and past participle Googlised)

Googlises (present singular third-person)
Googlising (participle present)
Googlised (participle past)
Googlised (past)

(transitive, uncommon, Internet) To render (someone or something) searchable on the search engine Google.


Googleplex

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Blend of Google + complex, and a reference to googolplex (“10^{10^{100”)}}.

Both Larry and Sergey wanted to make Google a fun place to work. Reflecting their beliefs, the Googleplex was decorated with Lava Lamps and painted in the bright colors of the Google Logo […]

2006, Michael A. Hitt, C. Chet Miller, Adrienne Colella, Organizational Behavior: A Strategic Approach, John Wiley & Sons:

(business) The corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc.


Fuckbook

Facebook is turning into a mean horrible thing. I got more real friends in these news groups than I do on fuckbook.

2012 October 25, BuZZard, “FUCKBOOK”, in alt.countrystuff (Usenet):

For so long she's stayed away from everybody's Fuckbook pages, but now she types in Facebook. She stares at the login screen and tries to remember her username, her password.

2013, Andre Dubus, Dirty Love, page 221:

Twit and Fuckbook emerge and before long they are infected with the human race's weirdos.

(vulgar, derogatory, humorous, chiefly Internet) Facebook.


sexyman

Wheatley would not reach the same fame as the sexymen that would come later, but he was still given the original sexyman treatment. He was given a universally accepted humanized form so that Tumblr users could feel okay about wanting to fuck a robot—a skinny white man with blonde hair and glasses. My thoughts on Wheatley himself? None, he seems cool, I guess. My thoughts on him being a sexyman? I hate it.

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

Whatever’s in store, fans can rest easy knowing their lil skeleton guy [Sans of Undertale] is now the undisputed sexyman of Tumblr.

2022 September 8, Isaiah Colbert, “Good News, Undertale Fans: Toby Fox Just Wrote A Sans x Mob Psycho 100 Story”, in Kotaku:

It's… pretty involved, but it eventually turns out that the key to being a sexyman is not to be sexy at all—which is great news for me—and Reigen was brought low by his conventional attractiveness.

2022 September 15, Joshua Wolens, “Toby Fox wrote a fanfic to explain why Undertale's Sans is the 'ultimate Tumblr sexyman'”, in PC Gamer:

(fandom slang) Ellipsis of Tumblr sexyman.


IPAM

(Internet) Acronym of IP address management.


I therefore propose that we, as Alt.1ders, respond forthwith and create a Cascade, whereby each contributor/reader of Alt.1d adds their name, organisation, and location with a ditty (NOT MORE THAN 2 LINES).)

1993 December 7, R. Walker, “-= CAscaDE =-”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

But then you can't see when the mailman goes by (and get cards from fellow alt.1ders - *hint*)

1993 December 16, Luc Theriault, “windows”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

[OOO slips out the door before the angry mob of alt.1ders blocks it off. They move on past him, acting as a single mind. Someone in front holds what appears to be a thermonuclear device. It is Sir Spam Spam Spam Spam Silly Troll (Spam Spam Spam Spam Silly is his middle name). OOO has been told the mysterious object is not, in fact, a thermonuclear device, but only a case for a smaller, more efficient explosive, but you never can tell with the Troll. OOO would finish the story for you but he ran so fast the other way he has no idea what ended up transpiring. Well, maybe some idea...]

1994 April 6, Out of Order, “test”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

Ok, alt.1ders, it's time for a poll, how many of you think that the reason Flyman is acting so damned beligerent is because he looks like Jeff Goldblum did in "The Fly" when his nails and teeth and ears and stuff started falling off his face????

1994 April 20, Type O Negative, “This is just a test!”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

BTW, you mentioned before about a comprimise between yourself and the new kids coming on over here. Well, I'd like to be the...third or so to extend my hand in diplomatic friendship. I've been reading your stuff for a while, being a fan of less-trafficked groups. I think overall all us alt.1ders and yourself will get along fine. :-)

1994 April 25, Golebiowski Mark T, “out-of-context postings?”, in alt.cosuard (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

Go for it dudes. Kiss the alt.1der to your left and hug the one on your right. And no squabaling.

1994 May 16, The Great Gonzo, “I wandered lonely”, in alt.1d (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

Feel free to post what you want. Some things that annoy me:
poetry from alt.1ders (old school)
that damned rifle thread

1997 May 10, Andrew Hime, “ahem. hello. :>”, in alt.cosuard (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-18:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.1d.


soyjak

Audio (US)

Etymology tree
Chinese 醬油 /酱油 (jiàngyóu)obor.
Japanese 醤油
Japanese そやbor.
Dutch sojabor.
English soy
Proto-West Germanic *bōjō
Old English *bōia
Middle English boye
English boy
English soy boyblend.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojakblend.
English soyjak
From the Internet meme soyjak, a cartoon drawing of a bald man with an excited expression. Blend of soy boy + wojak.

etymon

(Internet) An online image of an emasculate man, often with an excited expression, with an art style based upon the original wojak.


soyjak

en-verb

soyjak (third-person singular simple present soyjaks, present participle soyjaking or soyjakking, simple past and past participle soyjaked or soyjakked)

soyjaks (present singular third-person)
soyjaking (participle present)
soyjakking (participle present)
soyjaked (participle past)
soyjaked (past)
soyjakked (participle past)
soyjakked (past)

Audio (US)

finally found my screenshot of this. i did the closest thing i've ever done to soyjaking when she said this line

Conservatives are outraged by this, but if the police came to his place for tearing down missing Israeli posters, they would be soyjaking. A good reminder that speech restrictions primarily hurt the Right

My phone made one of those random compilation videos and I literally soyjaked at this one bit because I genuinely don’t remember ever looking this beautiful

(Internet slang, intransitive, sometimes derogatory) To gape like the man in the image; to be excited or surprised.


face reveal

(Internet) A photograph or video posted online, showing a content creator's true facial appearance for the first time.


face reveal

face reveal (third-person singular simple present face reveals, present participle face revealing, simple past and past participle face revealed)

face reveals (present singular third-person)
face revealing (participle present)
face revealed (participle past)
face revealed (past)

(Internet) To reveal one's true facial appearance online for the first time.


sci.langer

Not everyone here is a veteran sci.langer; certain topics will resurface again and again at the instigation of newbies (or even old timers). Believe me, I feel the pain of those self same veterans who must compell themselves to slog through yet another long thread on Esperanto or protoGreek or whatever.

1999 February 4, Padraic Brown, “Criticisms of Esperanto in sci.lang”, in sci.lang (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Javi is a sci.langer; I don't recognize the other name, sorry.
You've commented on the Jerry subthread?

2004 January 22, Peter T. Daniels, “raisin secs”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Yusuf is basically a sci.langer, but he comes here from time to time.)

2013 April 1, Athel Cornish-Bowden, “The Quran...A Book You Can Believe In”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.lang.


sci.physicist

Blend of sci.physics + physicist. Equivalent to sci.physics + -ist.

I plead ignorance in the field of plasma physics, but I would imagine that the flow of a plasma, either positively or negatively charged, would also constitute a current. [Could a sci.physicist please set me straight ?].

1990 September 12, Greg Ebert, “A Simple Question?”, in sci.electronics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

Somewhere I read that proton-antiproton annihilations don't go straight to gamma rays, but first yield 5 short-lived pions which then go on to spontaneously decay into lower energy gamma rays. Could some subatomic sci.physicist out there enlighten me/us on this mystery?

1991 October 24, Roger M. Wilcox, “Lynch's Spoiler Review: "Silicon Avatar"”, in rec.arts.startrek (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

I am not a proper sci.physicist, but just a dumb musician whose "day job" involves some physics.

2000 October 5, Francis Deck, “Bells vs gongs”, in sci.physics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-28:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.physics.


comp.theorist

Blend of comp.theory + theorist. Equivalent to comp.theory + -ist.

Hello comp.theorist,
I need the proof for the computability of
Speed problem : Find the fastest program P
SP(i) = j | Pj is fastest (with Pj equivalent to Pi)
It is a kind of "Halting problem". This problem is not computable.
(I may even describe the problem incorrectly!)

1992 April 20, Long Van Tran, “Request for Proof”, in comp.theory (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:

Hi Comp.Theorists,
I am looking for an overview article treating the TSP problem. I am NOT looking for a book like Lawler, Lenstra,..., just an article written for broad diffusion, something that could for instance appear in Scientific American or some other kind of journal, and that would give beside the statement of the problem also an overview on the heuristics, achieved results, etc.

1993 July 13, Davide Crippa, “Travelling Salesman Problem”, in comp.theory (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:

Dear comp.theorists,
I need to implement a - possibly efficient - feature-structure unification algorithm in a pure functional settings^([sic]).

2002 February 26, Fabien, “Non-destructive graph unification algorithm”, in comp.theory (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup comp.theory.


sci.chemist

Blend of sci.chem + chemist. Equivalent to sci.chem + -ist.

In our lab. we needed to know: what is a good water-soluble "small molecule" marker for size-exclusion peptide chromatography? We are monitoring UV at 280 nm. Nicotinamide came to mind, which led to the question: what is the absorbance of nicotinamide at 280 nm? This led to the question I really want to ask sci.chemists:
Is there some databank of UV (and other?) spectra accessible by email, perhaps even as a graph?

1989 September 26, JIM ORR, U. OF NEWFOUNDLAND, (709) 737-6635, “UV Spectra Database?”, in sci.chem (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:

Although Robert Ames may have missed the postings you must certainly have seen at least seven RFD proponents, including Bobby Rivere, claim during the middle of 1995 that they were under the definite impression that the *.misc renaming had to be included in the RFD if the RFD was to be issued. There were some quite fierce exchanges over this and they occurred whilst the acrimonious sci.chem renaming debate was in progress when the sci.chemists were being told they would be pressurised to rename to *.misc until they complied.
( BTW the sci.chemists rejected the renaming.)

1996 April 24, Colin Douthwaite, “UVV and mentor info request”, in misc.fitness.weights (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:

Hello sci.chemists...
I can't tell if the following is nonsense, or if it is meaningful. I know that there have been cases where information has been recast into a poem, such as the infamous DeCSS Haiku...but I haven't found anything suggesting what this chemistry-based poem is describing. Can anyone who knows more about the subject than I do tell me where this has come from or what it is saying?

2006 October 2, reality...@gmail.com, “Curious if this poem(?) about chemicals is meaningful or gibberish”, in sci.chem (Usenet), retrieved 2022-04-29:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.chem.


troll bot

(Internet) a type of software which spreads misinformation


FOUC

(web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled content: a brief glimpse of page content without the proper formatting, before the correct styles have loaded.


e-sign

e-sign (third-person singular simple present e-signs, present participle e-signing, simple past and past participle e-signed)

e-signs (present singular third-person)
e-signing (participle present)
e-signed (participle past)
e-signed (past)

If we don't even know who gets the e-mail petition that we've just e-signed, then what counts as political involvement?

2013, Martha McCaughey, Michael D. Ayers, Cyberactivism: Online Activism in Theory and Practice, page 6:

(transitive) To sign electronically with a digital signature.


alt.slacker

Blend of alt.slack + slacker. Equivalent to alt.slack + -er.

What I want to perpetrate upon the persons of ALL alt.slackers: I would like to promulgate the insidious rumor that everyone who posts to alt.slack is a homicidal zoophiliac heroin addict whose greatest pleasure in life is burning down Catholic orphanages. Then I would point in your direction the proper authorities who, under my conspiratorial direction, would actually be untrained squads of rape gorillas who had all undergone bionic surgery the purpose of which was to replace the gorillas' fleshy organs with gigantic robotic penises equipped with rotating, electrified fish scalers and glans-mounted flame throwers. Then I would assign fifty rape gorillas to each alt.slacker and confine them to tiny cells dug beneath the sewers of New York City.

1996 September 4, Sandy Duncan, “From Rev. Sternodox to alt.slack”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Today i had a chance encounter with our English department webmaster. Some alt.slacker--Oh, i wonder who it could be?--using the terribly clever nom-de-plume, anonymous, accused me of sexual harassment, among other transparent lies and misrepresentations. Our whole encounter exists in the public record, thread on thread, message on message; did he really think anyone would believe so outrageous a claim?

1999 August 10, g.v.w. iv, “an allegory for icewipe”, in alt.discordia (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

*snarf*
You also read like an alt.slacker

2003 April 24, Sharon B, “I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM”, in alt.soulmates (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

The rant of the alt.slacker? :-)

2005 April 26, Rev. Chain Smerker, “Re: Me, Myself and I:”, in alt.slack (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

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


alt.rapper

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Blend of alt.rap + rapper. Equivalent to alt.rap + -er.

Been here since early 98, so I guess I'm a "3rd generation" alt.rapper, but I did make like 4 posts in like March 97 under a different online service when I first used the internet... it was a few posts about mariah carrey or something like that.

1999 December 3, Cal Worthington, “alt.rap... history??”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Instead of the fact that I惴 not reading very long in this group, I惴 sure that one member of alt.rap will either win or come to the final round... I don愒 think that all the other rappers are as dope as the ones in here... But I bet that everyone of the alt.rappers will come very far in this battle. And I think one alt.rapper will support another alt.rapper, even if he doens愒 like him, right?

2001 May 9, Leonie, “Ramblin' About Alt.Rap And How To Improve It”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Maybe I'm not even gonna vote.
Vadik ~ got an alt.rapper in his crosshairs...and no, it's not you

2001 December 27, Vadik, “[NYT] Sir vs. Wattz (VOTE NOW!)”, in alt.rap (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

I have to admit I been a diehard alt.rapper since '97 but lately I've been busy, and I'm guilty of merging with the rmhh community as well.

2004 March 17, Augi, “What's going on with this group?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

LENGTH OF TIME POSTING IN RMHH: I think around 2000 or so... I was lurking for ages before that - more of an alt.rapper then...

2005 May 22, A to the L, “time for a RMHH survey”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

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


alt.atheist

What alt.atheists believe. (To clarify, I am coining a new term "alt.atheist" to avoid the baggage of existing terms).

1990 September 21, Jim Perry, “Front-door Atheism”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

The thing is that atheists (or, at least, alt.atheists) do not hold science as religion, but as science. Science-as-religion is held by some half-assedly-educated laymen, of which you do not see many here (your opinion of somne alt.atheists notwithstanding).

1997 October 14, MindFlayer, “Atheists and Aliens”, in alt.paranormal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Irrelevant. The persons whose behavior *is* described in my posts *are* numbered alt.atheists. No matter how many alt.atheists don't do X, the fact that two or more do X enables me to truthfully say that alt.atheists do X. As I showed in my example, *you* are the one making the generalization based upon the specifics.
I am consistently referring to specifics.

2002 February 12, Tichy, “Grading Alt.atheism's use of the Twit List”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

> I don't consider myself an alt.atheist. I consider myself an atheist who posts to alt.atheist. There are other things I do besides this, y'know, and it's incorrect to say that I'm an "alt.atheist", as if it is something different than "regular atheist".
I wasn't trying to say different. By alt.atheist I meant the typical atheist I have meet at alt.atheism. I am not saying that alt.atheists are different in any other way.

2005 April 5, keit...@yahoo.com, “The Atheist Lie”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

Everyone who jabs at alt.atheists is a Christian.

2014 June 17, jackpi...@gmail.com, “How many alt.atheists does ot take to screw in a lightbulb?”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-07:

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


sci.skeptic

AS> You try to discredit any of the sources that are provided,
I assume you mean other sci.skeptics; me, I haven't looked at your sources yet (I only just received some that might be accessible to me).

1993 February 27, phil...@stsci.edu, “Afrocentrism”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08:

I think this thread is a perfect example of why most scientists (and us sci.skeptics) hold Philosophy of Science in such low regard.

1994 May 14, DaveHatunen, “Feyerabend's Against method: a proposal for debate”, in sci.philosophy.tech (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08:

I made a suggestion of something new to the sci.skeptics who hate Christianity but love Judaism.

2001 January 16, Matt Giwer, “More formal (mathematical) proof of prehistorical transatlantic contacts”, in alt.alien.visitors (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-08:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup sci.skeptic.


rmhher

(Internet slang) Alternative letter-case form of RMHHer.


colatard

(Internet slang, derogatory) Alternative letter-case form of COLAtard.


RMHHer

As far as I know, Jeremy Somers is the only RMHHer who works for Raw Shack.

1998 July 19, Andrew Ryall, “blackstar...how overrated are they?”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

this is 4 (see the clever usage of 4 instead of spelling out the word f-o-r-) all the kkk rmhher's up in hea lately.

2000 August 25, CoJack, “This is 4 all our new kkk rmhher's in hea lately”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

I'm female {4 all you rmhher's knowledge}
Hear me roar

2000 November 9, Lovelyblaqgyrl, “OTP: People that know nothing about real hip hop”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

I thought Keith sued to have all of the Tuff City releases scuttled though. An RMHHer sent me cassette dubs of at least one of the albums (mostly radio freestyles as I recall) but I was never able to find them in stores anywhere.

2001 June 21, Steve 'Flash' Juon, “JUST FOR FLASH - Ultramagnetic All-Star Rap MP3”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

> >If you can find me and Mark an MPC to buy
>
> is that your boyfriend or something?
> I've heard you talk about him
Thats veteran RMHHer Mark RED BEARD Murray to you young whippersnapper.

2003 February 4, BSE, “RMHH beat competition”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Wow. A former rmhher in congress. Rmhh is really the bomb. Published authors, artists, politicians, ph.d's etc have all graced this forum.

2011 November 4, mochaspresso, “Pizon is running for Congress”, in rec.music.hip-hop (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup rec.music.hip-hop.


> I could not stop laughing after I read this......The only question is....did this guy beg and get the password?
No, he sent the "FUCK YOU YOU FUCKERS YOU'RE ALL FUCKING DEAD" message which has amused many generations of alt.2600ers since. Arch replied, "You'll have to ask more nicely than that."

1997 December 10, the.jackal, “YOURE ALL FUCKIN DEAD!!!!!”, in alt.2600.phreakz (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Ok, subject is CLOSED, how about we alt.2600ers talk about real hacking for a change, shall we? And alt.folklore.urban can get back to talking about urban folklore. Thanks.

1998 February 10, Xaos, “How do I get electricity without paying???”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

Sorry once again, alt.2600er's, but ren, the one who brought a few of us alt.religion.wickers (hehehe) into your group is apologizing to us, but needs to let you all see it too.

1999 July 8, muphasa, “SheWolf == ShieldWolf”, in alt.religion.wicca (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

no, ash. you can't blame poor horatio for this one. you, my dear little alt.2600er {snigger} are just going to have to live with what you've done....

1999 December 3, The New Scum, “That's the way to do it.”, in alt.teens.intelligent-insanity (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-09:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup alt.2600.


algospeak

Black and trans users, and those from other marginalized communities, often use algospeak to discuss the oppression they face, swapping out words for “white” or “racist.”

2022 April 8, Taylor Lorenz, “Internet ‘algospeak’ is changing our language in real time, from ‘nip nops’ to ‘le dollar bean’”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN:

By recognizing that keywords can be used to filter content, internet users have resorted to algospeak, the consensual substitution of censored terms with uncensored terms in order to evade censorship (Lorenz, 2022).

2022 June 24, Jordan Richard Schoenherr, “3.6.2 Microtargeting, Nudging, and Social Influence Campaigns”, in Ethical Artificial Intelligence from Popular to Cognitive Science: Trust in the Age of Entanglement, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page unknown:

If you’ve noticed the use of newly invented words cropping up on digital platforms or words used out of context or misspelled, it’s not a new kind of social media slang—it’s algospeak.

2022 October 31, KC Ifeanyi, “Decoding what algospeak really means for content creators”, in Fast Company:

A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak. […] Alessandro Bogliari, the chief executive of the Influencer Marketing Factory, said the moderation systems are clever but can make mistakes, which is why many of the influencers his company hires for marketing campaigns use algospeak.

2022 November 19, Melina Delkic, “Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language”, in The New York Times:

Typically, such codes have been employed by small groups. Given the reach of social media, however, algospeak has the potential to more broadly influence everyday language.

2023 April 13, Roger J. Kreuz, “What is ‘algospeak’? Inside the newest version of linguistic subterfuge”, in The Conversation U.S., Boston:

(social media, neologism) A form of cant for evading social media content filters.


alt.revisionist

Blend of alt.revisionism + revisionist. Equivalent to alt.revisionism + -ist.

Some of you might question the objectivity of Greg's report, since he was M.C. at the affair.
Therefore, some of us disinterested alt.revisionists who were there are preparing a more detailed report. Included will be David Cole's talk about Michael Shermer and transcripts of Shermer telephone conversations with David, Michael Berenbaum, and Debbie Lipstadt. I think you'll find it interesting.

1994 September 7, Ross Vicksell, “IHR 12th Conference”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-16:

Dear Fellow alt.revisionists:
I have only just got my Internet connection up and running, so perhaps I am judging the discussions I have seen on alt.revisionism too harshly, but the discussion does not seem to be up to the level for which I was hoping. I saw a post in which Ken Mcvay denigrated the GEnie discussion of the Holocaust which took place several months ago, but this forum seems to be providing a lower quality discussion of the Holocaust than GEnie did, and the GEnie discussion was pretty poor.

1996 November 18, Jamie McCarthy, “Mr. Raven, please cite your sources”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-16:

An example of such comparison must have happened in the mind of the first alt.revisionist to think of taking his show on the road and bringing revisionist postings to sci.skeptic. Surely one thought in his brain (well...misfiring neuron in his neural cortex might be more accurate) was "I am 'skeptical' about the history of the Holocaust, maybe I'll find allies who can battle the people who believe in history in sci.skeptic!" The contrast came when he started posting and found out the hard way that even without The Usual Suspects from a.r. stepping in he was being torn seven ways from Sunday by the sci.skeptic Regulars.

1999 October 11, RockyMtnCougar, “Compare and Contrast”, in sci.skeptic (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-16:

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


alt.flamer

Blend of alt.flame + flamer. Equivalent to alt.flame + -er.

Now, I experienced the bogfart bot invasion of alt.flame in 1994. Sadly, the U. of Pitt server DOES NOT include alt.bogfart newsgroup,But, Wait, JOHN D. AN ALT.FLAMER, MODERATING ALT.BOGFART?

1996 February 12, Andrew W Beckwith, “What the hell? An alt.flamer moderating alt.bigfoot?????????????”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

How about alt.flamer with the worst joke-book? ANS.
Alt.flamer most often *plonked* by ANS. Dobbs.

1999 November 16, Kerro, “First word about the 1999 alt.flame Awards”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

1992: The current alt.flamer with the longest tenure first posts to alt.flame.

2005 December 19, The U.S. Constitution, “On why every Bawler is a rank newbie”, in alt.troll (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

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


alt.horrorian

I'm beginning to think I'm the only alt.horrorian who actually *like* the actor Sean Connery.

1999 May 3, Henrik (at ze office), “The Crow -- Salvation”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

Met up with Marc Walkow from Image Entertainment, another alt.horrorian who sold me his awesome LBX copy of Ferrera's BODY SNATCHERS a while back.

1999 May 30, WideScreenPig, “Pig Returns, Tells Long Story!! (Names Drop Like Flies)”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

Supposedly there's a remake of House on Haunted Hill coming out in the fall. I haven't read a thing about it anywhere, other than the fact that its in development. Any Alt.horrorians heard anything about this project? Without Vincent Price, it probably won't be too worthwhile, IMHO.

1999 August 4, Jason Roth, “House on Haunted Hill?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

See, I'm not like some of the alt.horrorians who hate aping. I have no complaints if something is copied if it's well copied.

2001 February 27, Ringo, “Is PREACHER a good horror comic?”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

I was surprised at how well the film cleaned up. The print looks great considering the source. And yes, it is uncut. Our own alt.horrorian Craig H. wrote a very nice review on our site at:
http://www.icehouse.net/cultcuts/ispitonyourgrave.htm

2002 February 23, cultcuts, “Elite Entertainment edition I spit on Your Grave”, in alt.horror (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

*shrug* It's up to you, man. Assuming you live under a democracy, it's entirely within your rights to make yourself look like a complete turdchunk, not only before the alt.horrorians, but also in front of those posters over here whom relish such self-immolation. Have at it, numbnuts.

2007 November 5, The 2-Belo, “net halloween greeting”, in alt.flame (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-17:

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


denial of service

en-noun

denial of service (plural denials of service)

denial-of-service attack
denial-of-service attack


(fashion on the Internet) Abbreviation of where to cop.


(fashion on the Internet) A contribution to a virtual meetup consisting in a question of the above frame.


web shell

(computer security, Internet) A shell-like interface for issuing commands to a compromised server.


alt.writer

So, fellow alt.writers, when you reach this point in your writing, do you stay away from the story for a while, do you continue tinkering with it, or what?

1998 April 27, RDeschene, “Yippee, rough draft is done!”, in alt.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27:

In fact, if any misc.w'ers (or alt.writers) would like to exchange critiques, I have a 2,200 word SF (not hard science, though) story I just finished. I'll show you mine if you show me yours :-)

1999 May 22, Susan, “Critique?”, in misc.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27:

I hope you enjoy the little epistle I have sent your way. I'm snickering because I know you won't. All your most hated alt.writers are in there, minus me, as I am too modest to include my own comments in the compilation. Should you find it disappointing, I'm sure you know where you can shove it.

1999 July 17, Pamela Mitchell, “Fantasy piece for review (LONG)”, in alt.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27:

The only other requirement for alt.writers is that they say hello on the newsgroup uk.culture.arts.writing.

1999 October 24, Kye Valongo, “Competition for UK writers!”, in alt.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27:

one of the alt.writers who uses alt.writing to do his "performance art" flaming swears by a.f.o. as a place where he can do his "serious" work.

2001 January 7, nancy, “read this...”, in misc.writing (Usenet), retrieved 2022-05-27:

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


platformization

For [Anne] Helmond, the platformization of the web is a process whereby social media platforms[…]extend their tentacles into the rest of the web, following users in their browsing activities, using API plugins to permit Facebook commentary on far-flung websites, allowing Facebook the ability to sell users ads about things they were browsing, and generally connecting the web at large back into the closed Facebook platform.

2019, Marc Steinberg, The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Consumer Internet, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN:

For Miguel Ardanuy, a former participation coordinator of Podemos, the ultimate aim of this “platformisation of the party” is to “construct a different model of party, a party more open and responsive to society, where you do not need a membership card in order to participate”.

2019 February 13, Paolo Gerbaudo, “One person, one click: is this how to save democracy?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) The increasing domination of the Internet by a number of large companies whose products function as markets for content.

These developments are framed conceptually by the distinctions between platforms and portals and, in turn, the processes of platformization and portalization.

2021, Paul McDonald, Courtney Brannon Donoghue, Timothy Havens, Digital Media Distribution: Portals, Platforms, Pipelines, page 148:

(Internet) Conversion into a self-contained platform.


Usenetard

Wanna know a secret?
We're all Usenetards.

2007 June 26, Deathbringer, “"Lefttard" a crap insult?”, in alt.politics (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

Ubiquitous usenetards such as yourself will deny reality until everyone else dies of boredom. Been there done that.

2008 July 5, foad, “Loophole in Trust laws ? I can hardly believe what I've learned”, in misc.legal (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

TROLLS AND OTHER USENETARD BY ABUSING FLAMMING AND MALIGNING ANY MEMEBER OF THIS GROUP YOU ARE ABANDONING YOUR FAITHFUL CALLING AND CUSTOMER BASE YOU'LL ONLY HURT YOURSELF
QUIT THIS INSTANT WHILE THE QUITTING IS GOOD

2009 June 22, Proteus IIV, “STRONGER THAN MAN !”, in alt.engineering.electrical (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A user of Usenet; a Usenetter.


meme magic

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The site confirms that in 2016, ‘moderator TehDonald [sic] of the /r/the_donald subreddit submitted a post promoting … Nimble America, remarking that the community had “proven that shitposting is powerful and meme magic is real.” Meanwhile, Redditor NimbleRichMan [i.e., Luckey] submitted a /r/the_donald post asking for help defeating Hillary Clinton by donating to Nimble America’.

2017 June 19, T. J. Coles, President Trump, Inc.: How Big Business and Neoliberalism Empower Populism and the Far-right, Clairview Books, →ISBN, page 88:

As activists interested in generating a wedge between American Muslims and the LGBT community argued, “meme magic is real boys, so spread this meme. Drive this wedge” (Lyons 2017). The implication of this was that support for Trump did not mean liking the guy; it meant supporting his candidacy through extreme online versions of his campaign rhetoric and performance.

2018 December 11, Julie A. Webber, The Joke Is on Us: Political Comedy in (Late) Neoliberal Times, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 307:

Meme magic—the half-joking idea that Donald Trump could be “memed” into victory through judicious 4chan shitposting—became part of the site's rhetorical landscape. Due to the valiant efforts of brave shitposters, the “God-Emperor,” as Trump was frequently known on the site, would be propelled to the White House, where he would quench his thirst with an endless supply of liberal tears.

2020 June 16, Tara Isabella Burton, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, Hachette UK, →ISBN:

Weirdness also refers to the way in which the group members' self-perception as a coherent entity is connected to a quasi-religious experience of their individual identities being subsumed by something greater than themselves – a particularly common sentiment among 4chan anons, for instance, expressed by mythologizing their collective efforts as 'meme magic'.

2021 July 29, Melody Devries, Judith Bessant, Rob Watts, Rise of the Far Right: Technologies of Recruitment and Mobilization, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 176:

One of the first comments, which quickly became the top voted comment on the thread, simply said “meme magic”, linking to a post on 4chan that, three weeks earlier, combined a series of memes to tell a story about how Trump arrested Hillary Clinton.

2022 July 18, Paul Dawson, Maria Mäkelä, The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, humorous) The (supposedly supernatural) power of Internet memes to have a meaningful impact on the real world when used en masse in a targeted way.


magnet link

uniform resource identifier
uniform resource identifier

(Internet) A kind of uniform resource identifier based on a hash of a file's contents, typically used in peer-to-peer file sharing networks.


ICBM address

(Internet slang, web development) One's precise address, including both longitude and latitude.


commit sudoku

en-verb

commit sudoku (third-person singular simple present commits sudoku, present participle committing sudoku, simple past and past participle committed sudoku)

commits sudoku (present singular third-person)
committing sudoku (participle present)
committed sudoku (participle past)
committed sudoku (past)

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(by extension) To commit suicide by any means.


Fakebook

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Blend of fake + Facebook, suggesting that the site consists of phony, inauthentic users.

I love Fakebook, where all my fake friends hang out.
When the weather is fair my fakebook friends are there. When things
get ruff they're gone in a huff.

2010 July 22, onet...@gmail.com, “Fakebook”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):

2016 December 16, Ubiquitous, “Fakebook - The social-media site empowers a journalism cartel.”, in alt.journalism (Usenet):

Fakebook stuck to the antisemite crap and never investigated. Just like the Justice shit system.

2018 June 1, hic...@gmail.com, “Fakebook Removes Trending Topics”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):

(derogatory, Internet slang) The social networking site Facebook.


goblincore

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A cousin to the ever-popular Cottagecore, Goblincore celebrates parts of nature that many would perceive as dirty or unsettling, like frogs, snails, and mushrooms.

2020, Piper Daffron, "At The Core", Season Magazine (Indiana University), Volume 3, Issue 1, Fall/Winter 2020, page 4

[Amanda] Brennan thinks goblincore’s “spooky and cozy nature” will only make it more popular in autumn.

2021 July 30, Ellie Violet Bramley, “Goblincore: the fashion trend that embraces ‘chaos, dirt and mud’”, in The Guardian:

But that's not all, mushroom motifs have been popping up all over the fashion space (likely thanks to the nature-inspired goblincore trend).

2022, "Fashion Trends For The Year Ahead", Billions Luxury Magazine, Spring 2022, page 28

(aesthetic) An aesthetic and fashion movement that celebrates unidyllic aspects of nature, such as dirt, moss, mushrooms, and insects.


maidenless

en-adj

maidenless (comparative more maidenless, superlative most maidenless)

more maidenless (comparative)
most maidenless (superlative)

Elden Ring
GamesRadar+
Know Your Meme
Kotaku

From maiden + -less. Popularized by its use in a quotation in the video game Elden Ring, released on February 25, 2022, referring to the "Maiden" guide who allows the player to progress.

big divorce energy ()

psychological state characteristic of a recently-divorced person

You might be maidenless, but this Banished Knight's Greatsword replica from Elden Ring will give you the confidence you need to absolutely slay in all arenas of your life.

2023 February 6, Adam Rothbarth, “The Best Unique Video Game Merch 2023”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

(Internet slang) Single; lacking a girlfriend.


multiserving

Now, let's briefly explore two different approaches for creating sites for a multiple audience: multiserving and responsive design.

2012, Dino Esposito, Architecting Mobile Solutions for the Enterprise:

(Internet) The practice of designing separate versions of a website for various different types of mobile device, and serving the appropriate version to each visitor.


Flickrite

FD’s first toy to achieve wide popularity allows you to make your own unofficial Flickr ID badge, suitable for laminating, as shown in Figure 7-4. This has become a popular meme on Flickr, and it’s a good way to identify yourself in public to other Flickrites.

2006, Paul Bausch, Jim Bumgardner, “Custom Applications”, in Flickr Hacks: Tips & Tools for Sharing Photos Online, O’Reilly Media, hack #46 (Make a Motivational Poster and Other Swag), page 286:

Other literacy activities on Flickr include rubric writing for groups, discussions in groups about images and their inferences, and, of course, when one Flickrite wishes to invite another to join a specific group.

2009, Julia Alison Davies, Guy Merchant, “Photo Sharing: Welcome to the World of Flickr”, in Web 2.0 for Schools: Learning and Social Participation (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies; volume 33), Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 46:

Other Flickrites and deviants told us that they add content to their favorites because it helps them to communicate their appreciation to the photographer or artist (using the document affordance as an inter-action affordance).

2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 1710:

(Internet) Someone who uses the photo-sharing website Flickr.


LiveJournaler

“It sounds a little odd, but my first gay kiss, my first gay bar experience, my first gay friend—all a result of LiveJournal,” he says with a laugh. “And all with LiveJournalers.”

Languages thus seemed to be employed also to a symbolic function, i.e. not necessarily in connection to the bloggers’ level of language proficiency: “the frequency of this practice suggests that many LiveJournalers, even those who lack the linguistic or non-verbal means to interact directly with speakers of other languages, are aware that LJ is a cosmopolitan environment, and orient to that fact, albeit superficially” (Herring et al. 2007: n.p.).

2007, Susan Herring et al., article; quoted in Paola Vettorel, “Bloggers as ELF users”, in English as a Lingua Franca in Wider Networking: Blogging Practices, De Gruyter Mouton, 2014, →ISBN, section 1 (LiveJournal.com), subsection 4 (Languages on LJ), page 103:

There isn’t definitive research on the differences between LiveJournal users and Xanga users, but the perception is that Xanga skews younger and is more popular with Asian teens while LiveJournalers tend to be more artsy or “emo.”

2007 March, Anastasia Goodstein, “Diaries Go Digital”, in Totally Wired: What Teens and Tweens Are Really Doing Online, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Griffin, section “What Is a Blog?”, subsection “The Teen Blogging Landscape”, page 29:

Unfortunately, there weren’t enough LiveJournalers in my immediate area to have a Meetup, and it didn’t seem worth it to travel down to New York City for a LiveJournalers Meetup.

2008, Aldon Hynes, “A Coder Becomes a Political Activist”, in Mousepads, Shoe Leather, and Hope: Lessons from the Howard Dean Campaign for the Future of Internet Politics, Boulder, Colo., London: Paradigm Publishers, →ISBN, section “Discovering Dean: “The Real Thing””, page 88:

LiveJournalers love quizzes. What kind of hobbit are you? Are you a great lover? What planet are you most like? Which character from some movie are you? What's your emotional type? They fill them in and their friends fill them in and everyone compares their results. Harmless fun.

2008 April 29, Cory Doctorow, Little Brother, New York, N.Y.: Tor, published 2010, page 147:

Many LiveJournalers choose not to use real names when discussing people online, instead electing to assign pseudonyms or just initials.

2009, Rebecca Bley, “RL on LJ: Fandom and the Presentation of Self in Online Life”, in Mary Kirby-Diaz, editor, Buffy and Angel Conquer the Internet: Essays on Online Fandom, Jefferson, N.C., London: McFarland & Company, part 2 (Sociological Perspectives on Fandoms), chapter section ““Opt-In Filters,” Pseudonyms, and the Role of the Audience”, page 58:

Specifying age groups helped ensure variation of age within the sample. This is important in light of suggestions that most bloggers are between the ages of 13 and 19 (Bortree, 2005; Henning, 2003) – a trend that is also reflected in the demographic characteristics of LiveJournal users. These criteria were met by using LiveJournal’s advanced search feature. For example, a search would be performed for LiveJournalers from Melbourne between the ages of 30–40 who had updated in the last month (at 4 April 2006, such a search produces about 270 blogs).

2012, Ted Gaiser, Anthony Schreiner, “The World of Web 2.0: Blogs, Wikis and Websites”, in Jason Hughes, editor, SAGE Internet Research Methods (SAGE Library of Research Methods), volumes IV (Research ‘On’ and ‘In’ the Internet – Investigating the Online World), SAGE Publications, page 79:

Every LiveJournaler had their own style. Some people wrote exclusively about one topic. Others wrote about all kinds of things.

2017, Alexandra Franzen, You’re Going to Survive, Mango Publishing, →ISBN:

TheFerrett is the fifth-most popular LiveJournaler of all time as of July 2016.

2020, Lena Buford, “A Journey through Two Decades of Online Diary Community”, in Batsheva Ben-Amos, Dan Ben-Amos, editors, The Diary: The Epic of Everyday Life, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 437:

(Internet) A user of the social networking service LiveJournal.


dogstagram

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Carve a creative space with your dog-stagram, with your people-who-matter-stagram, or your inner palm sketchpad.

2014 January, Reuben G. Krabbe, “The Art of a Ski Bum: Getting Creative with It”, in The Capilano Courier, volume 47, number 13, page 15:

The Best Dogstagram Accounts You Should Be Following

2015 September 18, Jessica Duffy, Void, archived from the original on 2022-05-28:

“I have been thinking about starting a dogstagram,” I confessed.

2019, Elle Hume, My Fair Millennial 3: Also a Romantic Comedy, →ISBN:

Krammer never expected to gain such a large fan base, but he said he enjoys the friendly, passionate dog community that emerged from Blodgett’s outreach. “I had enough friends that were pushing me (to make an account),” Krammer said. “It’s been really fun just because there’s been a ton of people that have shown up, and there’s this really sweet community that’s been born specifically out of the dogstagram, so we interact with so many people from around the world.[…]”

2020 February 20, Elena Waldman, “Blodgett the Great proves sky’s the limit”, in The Rocky Mountain Collegian, volume 129, number 44, page 19:

This paper examines the phenomenon of dogstagrams on the social media platform Instagram.

2020 August 6, Karli Brittz, “Dog Stories in the Digital Age: Dogstagrams as Digital Tales of Becoming with Companion Species”, in Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities, volume 5, number 1, page 41:

The hive mind does us all a favor by acting as a check for all the would-be dogstagram accounts for which there was no demand.

2020 September 18, Maddie Bender, “Consider the Hot Dog”, in Yale Daily News, volume CXLIII, number 3, New Haven, Conn., page B3:

Better yet, do you have a favorite Canine YouTuber, Dogstagram or a dog of Tik Tok?^([sic])[…]PLATFORM #2: DOGSTAGRAMS

2021 August, Niccole Rumans, “Make Your Dog a Superstar”, in Fur Mama Mini Magazine, number 1:

Kristian would like to send a shout out to his mom, abuela, and sister, as well as his dogstagram @bowowbikic.

The platform is flooding with dogstagram accounts that are a major relief from the toxicity that can come with the social media world.[…]We have some dogstagram accounts to bless your feed.[…]The complimentary subtitles in each of their videos is just the best part about their dogstagram account.[…]Her dogstagram is extremely aesthetic and so dreamy.[…]She often comes with her accomplice Shaun, who also has a dogstagram.

2022 April 18, Vasudha Sabharwal, “13 Of The Most Heart-Warming Instagram Accounts For Every Dog Lover”, in ScoopWhoop:

Maybe dogs can finally have their own dogstagram which isn’t handled by a human posting on their behalf.

2022 June 21, Ameen Fatima, “The Future Of Review: The Future Is Bright and Full of Possibilities”, in LeisureByte, Teeny Media:

(Internet slang) An Instagram account focused on a dog.


Mumsnut

Blend of Mumsnet + nut (“a crazy person”).

blend

Here’s some folks who actually know what they’re talking about, you don’t get that on Mumsnut.

2018 July 25, Hetty Spoon (@Henriettaspoon), Twitter:

Oh, and in the light of the current mumsnut discussion... I block all transphobes. Just sayin'.

2019 October 12, Annie Wallace (@anniewallace), Twitter:

Mumsnut is melting down, tee hee. "EVEN WPUK", lol

2021 March 24, Stephanie Anne Calvert (@StephAcalvert), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) The British parenting-focused message board Mumsnet, viewed as a locus of gender-critical discourse and activism.


Prosecco Stormfront

From Prosecco, a wine varietal, and Stormfront, a white supremacist website, the implication being that Mumsnet has become a radicalisation pipeline for upper-middle-class mothers (sometimes referred to pejoratively as wine mums).

Prosecco Stormfront have worked themselves up into a transphobic frenzy of utter vileness now.

2019 November 27, Banquo's Ghost (@_banquos_ghost_), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront aka Mumsnet had to shut down the Graham Linehan thread to moderate it because of the sheer influx of new accounts trolling everyone.

2020 June 27, Gemma Stone (@notCursedE), Twitter:

Prosecco Stormfront slagging off another cis woman, all because she doesn’t agree with their obsessive transphobic hate-cult! 🙄😖

2022 May 20, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:


Mumsnutter

Blend of Mumsnet + nutter (“a crazy or eccentric person”).

Mumsnutters use all kinds of euphemisms to denigrate trans women (no acknowledgement of trans people) but somehow 'cis' is a hate crime?

2018 November 17, Aimee Evelyn (@AimeeEvelyn202), Twitter:

*waves at all the obsessive Mumsnutters trawling my twitter to ‘report back’ to the terven “mother ship” for back-slaps and gossip* 🙄

2019 November 1, Helen (@mimmymum), Twitter:

Hey trans guys, did you know that you're likely to be a "trojan horse" according to Mumsnutters?

2021 September 8, Rachel the wolf (@TheWolfSpirit1), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A gender-critical poster on the Mumsnet feminism boards.


radblr

Radblr is saturated with women calling themselves radical feminists who have the barest grasp on what that phrase means.

2019 August 17, Radfem Black (@RadfemBlack), Twitter:

My only contribution to radblr is occasional snide commentary, and they're not even particularly funny. Sorry y'all UwU

2020 October 27, normieenvy (@normieenvy), Twitter:

tho I did discover radblr in my late teens/early 20s and that was really eye opening for me 👀

2021 March 11, mandy (@siyeonbora), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Tumblr.


radtwt

do u know by any means if any of these groups accepts women that are new to radtwt and trying to get familiarized with the discourse?

2020 December 5, V (@dyke_me_down), Twitter:

i bet jkr has a secret account on radtwt—which one of you is it, come forward

i've been crypto on radblr for a while but i figured i'd make an account on radtwt since twt makes more sense to me.

2021 October 8, katarina (@wyvernfem), Twitter:

(Internet slang) The community of radical feminists on Twitter.


Slashdotter

On the popular hacker hangout Slashdot.com, wags stoke rumors that a “major software company” will soon offer free software—embedded with advertising. “Sounds like a nightmare waiting to be rebelled against,” says one poster, “NatePuri.” Fellow Slashdotter “el_flynn” doesn’t mind, “as long as there is an option to disable it.”

[…]unlike the iVillage audience, Slashdotters usually respect serious questions.

2001, Darren Sean Wershler-Henry, Mark Surman, Commonspace: Beyond Virtual Community, →ISBN, page 257:

According to one Slashdotter, Google solves all kinds of problems for society and provides most of its services for free, which prompts users to overlook Google’s infringements of privacy in order to target their ads and keeps them from hating Google.

2017, Sabrina Gabl, Verena E. Wieser, Andrea Hemetsberger, “Public Brand Auditing: A Pathway to Brand Accountability”, in Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse, Diego Rinallo, Russell W. Belk, editors, Consumer Culture Theory (Research in Consumer Behavior; volume 18), Emerald Group Publishing, part II (Revolutionizing the Market: Consumer Activism and Sustainability), page 158:

(Internet) A user of the social news website Slashdot.


twitface

(slang, derogatory, humorous, uncommon) An avid user of social media.


-twt

From a textspeak-style shortening of Twitter. See also twt.

(Internet slang) Combined with a noun or adjective to create a word for a specific community of users or a genre of posts on the social media platform Twitter.


zanytwt

From zany + -twt. The choice of the word "zany" likely stems from the use of the phrase "zany to the max" in the Animaniacs theme song.

as an apology for not being active on zanytwt i offer these wakko pictures

2020 December 22, maple (@alfuraldric), Twitter:

So i just got outta work idk whats going on in zanytwt but y’all please remember it’s totally 100% ok if people criticize the reboot

2021 January 20, Letsu (@Letsudraw), Twitter:

HELP I straight up revived zanytwt from the grave

2022 June 29, Etching to Sketching (@wesleylj12), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The community of fans of the Animaniacs franchise on Twitter.


stantwt

From stan (“an extremely obsessive fan”) + -twt.

suffix

2 years ago today, i joined stantwt. in those two years, i've met so many people, learned so many new things.

the worst thing to happen on stantwt is no one interacting with you.

2021 March 11, billie (@80svisions), Twitter:

I feel like we as a community should start describing more activities on stantwt as what they are: cyberbullying.

2022 March 3, Paulie (@paulieponzi), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Synonym of Stan Twitter.


anitwt

hi if you're ready to convert to an anime accout^([sic]) I am here to guide u into anitwt

2016 June 1, moved (@ichjmaru), Twitter:

idk its that one side of anitwt that is really ugly the rest of us are just decent people who want to watch anime without being disgusting

2016 December 26, meeb ze dong (@azuraonlyfans), Twitter:

anitwt is THE place to have every anime ridiculously spoiled and yet i still dont have any clue what the fuck that toilet anime is about

2020 October 18, zu has moved accs (@zuxkrul), Twitter:

(fandom slang) The community of anime fans and anime-focused accounts on Twitter.


blorbo from my shows

en-noun

blorbo from my shows (plural blorbos from my shows)

From a December 2021 post by Tumblr user thelustiestargonianmaid complaining about enthusiastic reblogs: "Bitches will be like 'prev tags omg' on my post and I check the preg^([sic – meaning prev]) tags and it's like ‘blorbo from my shows.'"

no one can make me feel bad for talking excessively about blorbo from my shows

2022 January 7, Turner (@shiraseceo), Twitter:

my fatal flaw is that i can’t live my life without depending on blorbos from my shows for serotonin

can’t talk right now, gotta meticulously curate a playlist for blorbo from my shows

2022 March 28, eerie indiana (@indybree), Twitter:

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) A fictional character or celebrity of whom one is especially fond.


clussy

clussy (countable and uncountable, plural clussies)

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Blend of clown + pussy. This gained attention with the character Geiru Toneido from the Ace Attorney video game series.

Going to a circus for some clownjobs and wet clussy.

2018 March 9, Otto Fuchs (@ValeFuchs), Twitter:

come collect this clussy🎈[two selfies of the tweeter cosplaying a gender-swapped Pennywise]

2019 May 25, shannon (@babyybatt), Twitter:

Been seeing a lot of people thirsting for some clussy from the clown girl in ace attorney 🤡

2022 June 28, XyroNi (@XyroNi09), Twitter:

(slang, humorous) The vagina of a clown; by extension, sex with a clown.


blorbo

i love it when fictional characters have their birthdays established it literally serves no purpose. there is no reason. nothing but joy of "oh today is my little blorbo's birthday" and saying birthday wishes into the void

2022 January 27, lesbians for edelgard (@C0REZI), Twitter:

Waiting for my blorbo to return to my screen like a WWII housewife waiting for her husband

2022 February 27, Sarah Z (@marysuewriter), Twitter:

love it when a hockey twitter blorbo gets traded and I find out that he's not nearly as good as I just assumed he was

2022 March 15, Beata (@CBeataE), Twitter:

Of course, all your blorbos are back for the big magical confrontation between those who crave power and those who defend against its abuses.

2023 October 31, Olivia Waite, “A Handful of Luscious, Soapy, Sexy Romance Novels”, in The New York Times:

blorbo from my shows
blorbo from my shows#English

(fandom slang, endearing, neologism) Ellipsis of blorbo from my shows.


hornypost

en-verb

hornypost (third-person singular simple present hornyposts, present participle hornyposting, simple past and past participle hornyposted)

hornyposts (present singular third-person)
hornyposting (participle present)
hornyposted (participle past)
hornyposted (past)

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tfw i’ve been doing nothing but hornyposting about my faves for days and literally nothing else [screenshot from the film Black Swan of a character cleaning the word "whore" scrawled in lipstick on a mirror]

grown ass adults hornyposting on facebook makes me so nervous like bro you’re 24 why are you posting about how you like hentai

2019 November 6, meg (@sativagoblin), Twitter:

i love logging on in the morning and seeing which of my friends got drunk and hornyposted

2022 July 4, Merle Hazard (@taylorcocke), Twitter:

(Internet slang) To make a lustful or sexually explicit post on a social media platform or online discussion forum.


stunning and brave

en-adj

stunning and brave (comparative more stunning and brave, superlative most stunning and brave)

more stunning and brave (comparative)
most stunning and brave (superlative)

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From "Stunning and Brave", an episode of South Park that satirizes social justice activists and political correctness.

Take the case of [...] a fifty-two-year-old transgender woman who raped two women before being sent to jail […] Stunning and brave!

2020 July 21, Rob Smith, Always a Soldier: Service, Sacrifice, and Coming Out as America’s Favorite Black, Gay Republican, Post Hill Press, →ISBN:

Live your truth. Be like one of these stunning and brave heroes of oppression: HEROES. OF. OPPRESSION. Your heart will bleed for each of these brave lads and lasses—not to mention lxsses—who suffer at the hands of the patriarchy.

2021 November 2, Babylon Bee, The Babylon Bee Guide to Wokeness, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 13:

The exact same rule applies to US President Joe Biden, who is forever exempt from such allegations. It doesn't matter that black people aren't the property of the left, nor does it matter that they can vote for whoever they choose in a free country, he was absolutely justified when he said, 'If you are African American and you vote for Donald Trump you ain't black.' Stunning and brave.

2022, Konstantin Kisin, An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

(Internet slang, derogatory, sarcastic) Used to express disrespect, in particular to suggest someone (especially a transgender person) or something has been promoted as good but is actually bad.


Usenetite

I'm not a enough of a Usenetite to know how to make these things happen, and I'm not interested in investing any signifigant time in it, but perhaps some of the "old time" a.c.h.h'ers could get it done.

1995 March 8, Mike Inman, “That's it -- I'm building my own PC!.”, in alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt (Usenet):

Oh, incidentally, the Usenetite known as Sir Launcelot du Lak (who posts occasionally on csipg.rpg) wrote a review of the first two CD's for Game Bytes magazine a couple of years ago. The review is still available online, if you're interested.

1996 November 5, Robert S. Gregg, “LADY WHISPER, HELP!!!!”, in rec.games.computer.ultima-dragons (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11:

Yes folks, I have a CD copy of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer soundtrack. It wasn't easy to get either -- I had to part with six whole dollars for it. A harsh sacrifice, to be sure, but worth it, for now I have one more elusive Matthew Sweet non-album track available at my fingertips. "Huh?" I hear you all saying, "Matthew Sweet's never been on BtVS -- have you been dipping into grandpa's old cough remedy again?" Not so, good Usenetites, for you see, it's the movie soundtrack I have, not the upcoming TV soundtrack. It's all a big joke; deal.

1999 January 2, Aaron S. Veenstra, “I have the soundtrack!!!”, in alt.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11:

Well, that's where my Rule #3 applies (I'm formulating them officially now, for the benefit of my following, to make them easier to quote later): Usenetites, Entertain Thyselves.

1999 July 28, Fabulana, “Intellectual Honesty”, in alt.anger (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11:

Thanx for your continued support, all you USENETites are great to do business with!

1999 November 19, Sffbclub, “!! *** Announcing: The Science Fact & Fiction Bookclub *** !!!”, in rec.games.trading-cards.marketplace.magic.auctions (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11:

Hey usenetites, I posted up pics of Steph from Raw. Click below for them.
http://www.crosswinds.net/~pwpix/wow

2001 September 11, Daniel Pena, “Pics of Steph From Raw (HERE)”, in alt.pro-wrestling.wwf (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11:

People are still getting over Christmas, and will no doubt require a period of recuperation after the next great festival of Hic!.
Then Usenetites will begin to emerge from hibernation or whatever. This is a very quiet period on all the groups I collect.

2005 December 30, Rusty Hinge 2, “RFD: create unmoderated newsgroup uk.tech.heating”, in uk.net.news.config (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11:

Hey Usenetites!
I have a horrible Python program to allow two people to chat with each other. It has horribly any functionality, but it is meant for the public to work on, not necessarily me. Anyways, here's a quick FAQ.

2013 April 5, Hunter D, “im.py: a python communications tool”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-11: