Usenetdom

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1992 June 17, Nicolas Alejandro Arauz, “ADMIN: Isn't there a FAQ?”, in sci.virtual-worlds (Usenet):

In terms of USENETdom, I like the offseason better in any of the rec.sport.* groups ...

1993 April 21, Robert John Butera, “Seasons on r.s.bb.c”, in rec.sport.basketball.college (Usenet):

Hardly - I wasn't giving anybody credit. I just like seeing the old Meeks/Lor arguments. They have been one of the few constants in my 6 years of Usenetdom.

1996 July 16, Brian Saunders, “Ed Lor-yer...let's rock!”, in rec.sport.basketball.pro (Usenet):

They're a bunch of "Usenet Performance Artists" that somehow have gotten it in their heads that they'll be able to take over newsgroups. it's pretty much an impossible feat here due to alt5's unique nature in Usenetdom.

1999 April 23, Demi Monde, “Whaer is FAQ for alt5?”, in alt.alt.alt.alt.alt (Usenet):

LOL! I didn't even see his response, 'cause like I do all jerks in Usenetdom, I killfiled him.

2003 July 20, Carleen, “Is Kobe Bryant's wife white?”, in nyc.general (Usenet):

(uncommon) The world or sphere of Usenet.


Usenetese

Retreived from an ancient document, translated to usenetese:
>Don't get your hopes up. After scores of years there are no known holes
>in Kpelerian dynamics... it's always agreed with planetary observations.

1992 June 2, Wayne Throop, “Hypothesis: I am a Transducer (Formerly "Virtual Grounding")”, in comp.ai.philosophy (Usenet):

"Nazi" is usenetese for "Him who agrees not with my rantings".

1994 February 24, John William Chambless, “Douggie's irrelevant idiocies”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

So it may not be completely appropriate to try to apply the rules of other written English to Usenet communication. The best authority on what is or is not correct Usenetese grammar, in the absence of any scholarly study of it, would be a consensus of Usenetters.

1999 July 31, Matthew Skala, “Is it wrong for family to make me feel like I want to die?”, in alt.kids-talk (Usenet):

You wouldn't shout so in defending them if you believed that. Oh, but then, not having read the netiquette documents, you probably don't even know that all caps is Usenetese for shouting rudely, do you?

1999 November 23, Kent Paul Dolan, “2 year presidential term??”, in az.politics (Usenet):

Of those ISPs who carry the binaries groups, a lot of them have relatively short "expire" times [Usenetese for the amount of time a post will remain on a given news server] of 12 hours to 48 hours.

2002 May 25, Ogden Johnson III, “BBC Radio Version of the Foundation Trilogy”, in alt.books.isaac-asimov (Usenet):

(uncommon, Internet slang) The type of language used on Usenet.


Internet feed

(Internet) A stream of content appearing in blocks of similar appearance and through which a user can scroll.


Usenetism

I sense the birth of a new expression: "JJ"
As in "He's a real JJ!" for referring to people that clog up the net.
Or, "Don't be such a JJ!" I.e., a JJ is a net *sshole

1988 June 24, Robert DeBenedictis, “Yet Another USENETism”, in misc.misc (Usenet):

> >>What, precisely, is an "obAncientHardware"? Or an "ObPratchett" for that
> >>matter?
> >
> >It's a Usenetism, rather than a AFPism. In newsgroups where a
> >distinction between ``on-topic and ``off-topic exists and matters,
> >ObFoo precedes some on-topic material at the end of an off-topic post.

1997 August 5, Mary, “[I] Proof that girl geeks DO exist.”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet):

>By the way, thanks and yes you did, and what is "p&e"???
Sorry... usenetism for "Posted and Emailed".

2004 July 6, John Vinson, “SW inventory”, in microsoft.public.access.gettingstarted (Usenet):

It's no more a feature of CF groups than AOL or newsfroup or DH or any of the other assorted Usenetisms that have emerged over the last two decades are specific to any other group.

2004 October 8, Jacqui, “Celebs public about bf'ing”, in misc.kids.breastfeeding (Usenet):

Pron is usenetism for porn. Maybe it was supposed to suggest people too excited to correct a metathesis.

2016 November 13, Siri Cruise, “Class S01E02 The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo”, in rec.arts.drwho (Usenet):

(uncommon, Internet) A term that is peculiar to Usenet.


Usenetverse

"[…] For it has been brought to our attention that the sorcerer Misc the Amoral has used his powers to corrupt the mind of the champion who defends the split. And once again, Misc the Amoral attempts to gain another foothold in the Usenetverse."

1992 May 12, “Loe & Karmak”, in alt.pub.dragons-inn (Usenet):

And the universes danced on in their infinite dance, but two of them, the UseNetVerse and the RanmaVerse got a little bit intimate in one of the slower dances and decided to find a spare bed somewhere.

1996 September 4, Steven Scougall, “[grit][fanfic] Steve's Story”, in rec.arts.anime.creative (Usenet):

In a parallel Usenetverse, Paulius Stepanas (winner of some other sort of RELEVANCY AWARD) posted a different but equally worthy review in aus.tv, as part of a thread entitled "X-Files - I laughed":

1998 May 25, Kenneth Alexander Finlayson, “X-REPORT: Just read it II”, in aus.tv.x-files (Usenet):

> Why did you post this to the whole damn usenetverse?

1998 July 9, David Martin, “Ray Heizer is "Made" ...Again”, in alt.current-events.clinton.whitewater (Usenet):

Whatever in the usenetverse would make you suspect a thing like that?

2002 January 9, Clarice, “so you're a hag right?”, in alt.fan.jackie-tokeman (Usenet):

Maybe you've hit on the reason that we get so much SF-bordering-on-F with all sorts of pantheons and nobody minds much, but let a story even hint at a universe wherein Christianity is true, and alarm bells go off all over the Usenetverse.

2010 June 8, Dorothy J Heydt, “Creationism in Science Fiction”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):

(uncommon, Internet, often humorous) The world or sphere of users of Usenet.


Usenetiquette

Don't think that it would be possible simply to shout CServe users down for improper Usenetiquette as per Portal with perjoratives like, "...when you figure out REAL networks...," because CompuServe comprises more subscribers than Usenet does, and they'd shout back - louder and in greater numbers.

1989 February 12, Karl Kleinpaste, “Procedure for rec.humor.funny debate”, in news.admin (Usenet):

By the power of Usenetiquette, the thread has degenerated into a spelling flame and is hereby dead. Have a good day.

1995 July 7, Brent Burton, “Child Cyclist gets killed....”, in rec.bicycles.soc (Usenet):

On the other hand, most of the "infractions" which people complain about are nothing to do with the lo cal practices of AFU, and everything to do with standard Usenetiquette, which is even less secret, as it is posted frequently in the newsgroups which Usenet newbies ought to read.

1999 November 19, Mike Holmans, “"Kevin" as a given name”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):

Not at all. I am courteous and simply am pointing out that what is typed is not necessarily what was meant. I don't see how wanting people to post in a clear manner violates Usenetiquette. I do now agree, though, that such things can take a thread off topic.

2004 November 4, Richard Bonner, “Re: Educational Levels (Was: "Re: I know...wrong group...i thought it was HFX.FORSALE")”, in hfx.general (Usenet):

Don't stop there. What major discussion on what social transition beyond Capitalism ? No, I am not going to watch the video. You could summarize it in a few words (which incidentally is part of Usenetiquette).

2020 September 25, Jos Boersema, “It is now obvious that US style hard-right capitalism sucks ... so what to do?”, in can.politics (Usenet):

(Internet) Netiquette appropiate to Usenet users.


p&e

According to your posted excerpts, Mayer does not blame Nazism on the Soviets or "Judeo-Bolsheviks." He does blame the mass murder of Jews on the Nazis' failing campaign against the Soviet Union -- and that assertion is the controversial part of his book, as far as I can tell from the review posted here. However, what you say he "proves abundantly" does not appear in the excerpt you posted. Could you provide a page cite to where he DOES prove that? (And can you explain how he proves it without any supporting source material?)
P&E

1994 November 10, The only Golux in the World, and not a mere Device, “Persecution of the SS”, in alt.revisionism (Usenet):

Let us know if it works. I'm not aware of anyone actually doing it. A pic would be nice too. (but don't post it in the group)
p&e <- means posted and emailed

1998 August 28, Rick Sammartino, “Hiya Everybody!”, in alt.fan.sailor-moon (Usenet):

[p&e]
BTW, posting and emailing is a habit I brought to AQ from another group, and is not considered necessary here.

2003 September 8, David C Kifer, “Killing for the Greater Good (was: Re: some favourite quotes)”, in alt.quotations (Usenet):

p&e
Barb, I've already typed a reminder so you don't have to which I'll post on Sunday. It's in my "Send Later" file which pops up automatically to remind me.:)

2004 December 10, Archer, “Barb”, in alt.med.fibromyalgia (Usenet):

(obsolete) Initialism of posted and emailed.


learn Chinese

en-verb

learn Chinese (third-person singular simple present learns Chinese, present participle learning Chinese, simple past and past participle learned Chinese or learnt Chinese)

learns Chinese (present singular third-person)
learning Chinese (participle present)
or learnt Chinese (Chinese literary participle past)
or learnt Chinese (Chinese literary past)

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From the phrase "Get ready to learn Chinese, buddy," originating from an image macro falsely quoting NBA Commissioner Adam Silver in reference to controversy surrounding player Kyrie Irving, suggesting that Irving should be exiled to lower-tier Chinese league.

Our best starting line up against 18th in League 1, we either win 5-0 or every single one of those players need to start learning Chinese.

Absolute ass bowling. no swing at all, 115kph bouncers to short ball veterans. Always ruins the pp spell of Tushar. I expected so much from him, really disappointed. Better turn the things around or learn Chinese

“Every single hater who told me to learn Chinese, I’m glad because I’m going to Shanghai” Asuna shut the haters down 🔒

(sports, slang, derogatory) To quit or transfer from a major professional sports league, suggesting a player does not deserve their current place.


outtweet

outtweet (third-person singular simple present outtweets, present participle outtweeting, simple past and past participle outtweeted)

outtweets (present singular third-person)
outtweeting (participle present)
outtweeted (participle past)
outtweeted (past)

What followed was a sad attempt by Dunkin’ to “outtweet” the First Lady, which obviously failed.

2022 December 2, Katie McCall, “What You Can Learn from Wendy’s Social Media Strategy”, in Rival IQ:

(transitive) To tweet more or better than.


girlfran

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling

(Internet, women's speech) Pronunciation spelling of girlfriend (“female friend”).


orphan-crushing machine

en-noun

orphan-crushing machine (plural orphan-crushing machines)

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From a Twitter post by @pookleblinky on September 25, 2020:
"Every heartwarming human interest story in america is like "he raised $20,000 to keep 200 orphans from being crushed in the orphan-crushing machine" and then never asks why an orphan-crushing machine exists or why you'd need to pay to prevent it from being used."

"we live in a society", said the orphan-crushing machine operator

2023 February 15, @lepetitereboot, Twitter:

“ the orphan crushing machine isn’t the problem, it’s that people are using the orphan crushing machine wrong”

BREAKING: orphan-crushing machine manufacturer states there is 'no sign' of orphan-crushing machines being used to crush orphans

(Internet slang) A notional machine representing a system or process that obviously facilitates suffering but is not acknowledged or examined, or for which no alternative is considered.


dark social

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From dark (“hidden, secret”) + social (“relating to social media or social networks”); compare Dark Web (“the portion of the Deep Web hosted on restricted networks”).
Coined 12 October 2012 by Alexis Madrigal of The Atlantic (see quotations), in reference to Internet traffic (clicks) from hyperlinks send via private messages that are thus invisible to most analytics programs.

compound

This means that this vast trove of social traffic is essentially invisible to most analytics programs. I call it DARK SOCIAL [author's capitalsation]. It shows up variously in programs as "direct" or "typed/bookmarked" traffic, which implies to many site owners that you actually have a bookmark or typed in www.theatlantic.com into your browser. But that's not actually what's happening a lot of the time. Most of the time, someone Gchatted someone a link, or it came in on a big email distribution list, or your dad sent it to you.

[2012 October 12, Alexis C. Madrigal, “Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong”, in The Atlantic:

According to a RadiumOne study, almost 70% of all online referrals come from dark social globally. For the UK, this figure increases to 75%.

2016 February 16, Jack Simpson, “The rise of dark social: Everything you need to know”, in Econsultancy:

This shift in consumer behaviour underlines how much marketing now comes through social media, and specifically dark social.

2019 March 25, John Glenday, quoting André van Loon, “63% of people prefer to share content on 'dark social' channels”, in The Drum:

Dark social has a profound impact on social and digital marketing strategies. It evades the reach of standard tracking tools and obscures a significant portion of consumer behavior and interaction, leading to incomplete or skewed data on customer engagement, the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and even conversion paths.

2023 August 18, Rebecca Kowalewicz, “Understanding And Utilizing Dark Social In Marketing”, in Forbes:

(Internet, marketing) Interactions via the World Wide Web that cannot be publicly viewed, tracked or logged, such as private messages, texts and e-mails.


Usenetspeak

>(And "she/he/it" (or "s/he/it") is even worse... That one always comes out
>as "excrement" in Hillbillyspeak...)
And even UsenetSpeak.

1995 May 12, John Novak, “horn of valere -> ter'angreal?”, in rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan (Usenet):

Dave's apology IMHO was what make "Chuckletrousers" funny - before the apology, I just read over "Chuckletrousers" and went "Hm, Dave sure has picked up Usenetspeak in a hurry".

1996 October 27, Rose Marie Holt, “I met "The Dave"”, in alt.fan.dave_barry (Usenet):

Whine away in Usenetspeak, you anonymous elitist.

1999 December 18, Henry E. Kilpatrick Jr., “Russian Duma calls on Lewinski to stop bombings.”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):

If yer think that's bad you should see some of the Usenetspeak that's used by allegedly trendy Herns on some groups. Prolly and Praps to name butt two. I use a prolly when it's brissing down - which can be quite painfull at my age!

2004 January 17, nemo, “Goon Shows on the Net”, in alt.fan.goons (Usenet):

(uncommon, Internet slang) The special slang used within the Usenet community.


many such cases

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From an X (formerly Twitter) post by Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump) in 2014, popularized after his election as President of the United States in 2016:
Healthy young child goes to doctor, gets pumped with massive shot of many vaccines, doesn't feel good and changes - AUTISM. Many such cases!
The phrase itself has been rarely attested in literature, from at least the 19th century, primarily in medical or legal context.

quote-book

1848, François Lallemand, A Practical Treatise on the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Spermatorrhœa, Lea & Blanchard:

(colloquial, often humorous) Used to indicate that an occurence is unsurprising, or that something is or was evident. Often sarcastic, mocking someone for believing that something is common, or otherwise tongue-in-cheek.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see many, such, cases, indicating that there are many examples of something or that something is a common occurrence.


quote retweet

en-verb

quote retweet (third-person singular simple present quote retweets, present participle quote retweeting, simple past and past participle quote retweeted)

quote retweets (present singular third-person)
quote retweeting (participle present)
quote retweeted (participle past)
quote retweeted (past)


genuinfluencer

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Blend of genuine + influencer. Planted by WGSN in January 2021 as a supposed trend of the upcoming year.

(neologism, marketing, social media) A postmaterial influencer.


they hit the Pentagon

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Originated from an exchange in a May 2020 OneyPlays let's play video about recording said video on a short notice: Lyle jokes that Chris shook him awake and Zach chimes in, shouting: "Lyle, Lyle turn on the TV they hit the Pentagon! They hit the fucking Pentagon, Lyle!" in reference to the September 11 attacks. Popularized widely by a viral image macro of a character from the 2022 animated film Turning Red, using the phrase "They hit the fucking Pentagon," in reference to discussion surrounding a viral remark that the film, set in 2002, did not mention the September 11 attacks.

(Internet slang, humorous) Used to indicate that an event or news of an event is cause for alarm.


clean URL

(Internet, computing) A web address or URL intended to improve the usability and accessibility of a website, web application, or Web service by being immediately and intuitively meaningful to nonexpert users.


push notification

en-noun

push notification (plural push notifications)

(Internet, mobile telephony) The delivery of information from a software application to a computing device without a specific request from the client.


Androider

Since Instagram became available for Android users yesterday, a lobby of "but that was OUR app!" tweets are starkly highlighting the rift between iPhoners and Androiders.

2012 April 4, Emily Dreyfuss, “iPhone users: Android is ruining our Instagram club”, in CNET, CBS Interactive Inc., published 2012, retrieved 2020-03-01:


pour honey on

en-verb

pour honey on (third-person singular simple present pours honey on, present participle pouring honey on, simple past and past participle poured honey on)

pours honey on (present singular third-person)
pouring honey on (participle present)
poured honey on (participle past)
poured honey on (past)

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A aphorism first quoted by boxing heavyweight Riddick Bowe in a February 1993 edition of New York Magazine: "If you see me in a fight with a bear, do me a favor—pour honey on me”. Later in a 2023 Instagram post by Lebron James: "If you ever see me fighting in the forest with a Grizzly bear, HELP THE BEAR [crown emoji]" to which Shannon Sharpe replied "I'm pouring honey on you GOAT," both referring to a variation on Bowe’s aphorism. An earlier variation by Shannon Sharpe in a Twitter post in 2017: “IF* you see me and a bear fighting pour honey on me and help the bear.”

cite tweet

You tryna pour honey on a midget lol

Tyrese Maxey i would pour honey on you but you play for the sixers you can get a fist bump lil nigga 🤜🏾

Y'all Be Pouring Honey On Anybody

(slang, idiomatic, transitive) To praise or encourage wholeheartedly.


dattebayo

From a sentence-end hereditary verbal tic of the titular protagonist of Naruto, perceived as a catchphrase due to its translation into English as "Believe it!": だ (da, auxiliary) + ってば (tteba, informal emphatic particle) + よ (yo, emphatic particle).

ja-compound

I wanna play APEX with neechans too...dattebayo...

i don't judge ppl for this bc like. if it gets you to do it. hell yeah brother grab that toothbrush dattebayo

(originally fandom slang, humorous) An expression of affirmation.


for one's foams

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Referring to being mugged or killed for one's sneakers, also used in image macros of mortally wounded fictional characters, notably Uncle Ben in the 2002 film Spider-Man with the phrase "They got me for my foams".

jack got me for my foams. rt to help me find my mutuals🙏🏼😭

2020 February 25, @luver4skategirl, Twitter:

Killer Bee really ran sasuke for his foams while he was rapping 😭😭😭

AI got me for my foams smh

(Internet slang, humorous) Totally or in humiliating fashion, in the context of being wronged or defeated.


ISAC

w:Information Sharing and Analysis Center

(Internet, security) Initialism of Information Sharing and Analysis Center (a cybersecurity non-profit organization).


dewikification

(wiki jargon) The removal of wiki markup formatting, such as internal links.


Twittard

(Internet slang, derogatory) A stupid Twitter user.


if it fits, I sits

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Chosen for the rhyme. The expression stems from a jocular wordplay on the slogan "If It Fits, It Ships" adopted by the USPS for its holiday advertising campaign in 2009. Its earliest known appearance is from an image macro series posted on the ICanHasCheezburger blog on October 10th, 2011.

(Internet, humorous) A domestic cat, out of instinctual habit, will sit in any empty box or other container of any size that is left unattended.


MRAsian

Blend of MRA (“men's rights activist”) + Asian.

blend

In 2018, "Fresh Off the Boat" actress Constance Wu opened up about the anger she received from Asian men — specifically "MRAsians," an Asian American play on the term "men's rights activists" — for having dated a white man.

2020 June 22, Kimmy Yam, “Kellie Chauvin and a history of Asian women being judged for whom they marry”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2024-04-01:

American culture does indeed have a long track record of portraying Asian men as timid and asexual, but MRAsians see women as active accomplices in maintaining the stereotype, contending that, by dating white men, Asian women are upholding white supremacy.

2021 September 15, Aaron Mak, “"Men’s Rights Asians" Think This Is Their Moment”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-12:

(Internet) A member of an online subculture affiliated with the men's rights movement focused on men of Asian ancestry in the West.


MRAsian

Much of the recent derogatory language around the dating habits of Asian women has been coined in the MRAsian space: "WMAF", or a white male, Asian female relationship; "Lu", an Asian woman who rejects Asian men in favor of white men; "bananarang", an Asian woman who used to date white men but now seeks a relationship with an Asian man.

2024 June 12, Steffi Cao, “Trolls are citing an 'Oxford study' to demean Asian women in interracial relationships. But it doesn't actually exist”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-13:

(Internet) Of or relating to the MRAsian community.


Obamna

Originally a mispronunciation or misspelling of Obama. Somewhat popularized by Donald Trump during a 2018 campaign rally, in which it is thought he had unintentionally mispronounced “Obama” with an “-na” at the end, possibly in confusion with the word amnesty.

obamna

2024 May 8, DougDoug, 02:41 from the start, in I used Barack Obama’s hands to play Mario Party (NOT CLICKBAIT), spoken by WalletWorrier_:

(Internet slang, humorous, US politics) Barack Obama.


Myrotvorets

Borrowed from Ukrainian Миротворець (Myrotvorecʹ, literally “Peacemaker”).

bor+

This estimate is contested by the estimates of the Ukrainian pro-governmental website Mirotvorets, which regularly publishes data of identified separatists. Mirotvorets puts the total number of Russian foreign fighters, excluding regular military, at around 50-80,000. However, there is one common thread in the numbers provided by the Union of Donbass Volunteers and Mirotvorets:[…]

2017 May 30, Kacper Rekawek, Not Only Syria? The Phenomenon of Foreign Fighters in a Comparative Perspective, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 64:

But within hours, Myrotvorets (or Peacemaker), a Ukrainian website with close ties to law enforcement agencies and hackers, “blacklisted” them in their online database of more than 130,000 names – because the plane was bound for Russia-annexed Crimea.

2019 August 27, Mansur Mirovalev, “Peacemaker: The Ukrainian website shaming pro-Russia voices”, in Al Jazeera, archived from the original on 2022-04-24:

I had asked him about the Myrotvorets (Peacemaker) organization, which hosts a database he described as a political instrument for counterterrorism in Ukraine. Launched in December 2014, Myrotvorets collects personal information about people believed to be conspiring against the country.[…]Myrotvorets and its separatist counterpart Tribunal offer concrete examples of the difficulties of researching politicized contexts like war.

2023 December 6, Ilmari Käihkö, "Slava Ukraini!": Strategy and the Spirit of Ukrainian Resistance, 2014-2023, Helsinki University Press, →ISBN, page 32:

(Internet) A Ukrainian government-backed website that publishes a running list, and often personal information, of people who are considered by authors of the website to be enemies of Ukraine.


WCAG

(Internet, Web) Abbreviation of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.


responsive web design

Coordinate term: adaptive web design

(design, Web) Approach to web design that makes Web pages render well on a variety of devices and screen sizes to ensure usability and satisfaction.

اَلتَّصْمِيمُ الْمُسْتَجِيبُ لِمَوَاقِعِ الْوَيبْ


ayy lmao

Associated with image macros of aliens, the first attested around early 2013, the phrase sharing the first syllable /ˈeɪ.l/ with alien.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ayy, LMAO.


Deezer

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2007 in Paris by Daniel Marhely and Jonathan Benassaya.


in this essay I will

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As if the statement is the opening of an essay. Popularized around 2017.

Is writing hard, or am I just bad at it? In this essay, I will— To be honest, this whole publishing thing isn’t getting any easier for me, and I’m still relying on several trillion people to help me get my work in shape.

2023 June 13, Ali Hazelwood, “Acknowledgments”, in Love, Theoretically, New York, N.Y.: Berkley Romance, →ISBN, page 387:

(literally) A hackneyed phrase used to begin an essay.


Twiplomacy

After a very slow start, the US State Department is now the world’s most active practitioner of e-PD and the source of many best practices in digital diplomacy. It operates an official blog called DipNote, and actively services Twitter accounts in Arabic, Farsi, Russian, Spanish, Hindi, and French, as well as English. This new business line—‘Twiplomacy’ in the increasingly popular idiom—is growing fast, with more and more U.S. diplomatic missions and practitioners joining the fray.

2013, Daryl Copeland, “Digital Technology”, in Andrew F[enton] Cooper, Jorge Heine, Ramesh Thakur, editors, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part IV (Tools and Instruments), section 5 (Leadership and Best Practices), page 457:

One study on the use of Twiplomacy found 264 Twitter accounts for government institutions in 125 countries but that only 30 heads of state personally used their Twitter accounts.

2015, Anne Aly, “The Media and International Relations”, in Emilian Kavalski, editor, Encounters with World Affairs: An Introduction to International Relations, Abingdon, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2016, →ISBN, part III (Topics and Issues), page 355:

This bachelor thesis documents the analysis of Russia's Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war concerning the framing approach. For this purpose, the posts of a selection of seven Russian government profiles on Twitter are examined over a period of five months. Examining Russian Twiplomacy provides a deeper understanding of its function.

2022, Varuna Mattis Venker, “Introduction”, in Russian Twiplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine War. Frames and Narratives as Strategic Communication, GRIN Verlag, →ISBN, page 2:

The government in Beijing seems to acknowledge that the use of Twiplomacy has never been more important than today with its growing roles in Indonesia.

2022 December, Muhammad Zulfikar Rakhmat, “China’s Growing ‘Twiplomacy’ in Indonesia”, in The Political Economy of China-Indonesia Relations in 2022, Jakarta Selatan: Institute For Development of Economics and Finance, →ISBN, page 47:

The practice of conducting public diplomacy using the social media platform Twitter.


Usenetty

en-adj

Usenetty (comparative more Usenetty, superlative most Usenetty)

more Usenetty (comparative)
most Usenetty (superlative)

I tend to think of RATMM as "kicking it old-school" as far as online groups go. It's not very Usenetty. It's an actual community, unlike just about every other newsgroup I've been on.

1996 October 1, Bryan Lambert, “The many categories of RATTM”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):

(Internet) Relating to or characteristic of Usenet.


ALOHA

(Internet, historical) ALOHAnet (an early computer networking system).


GunTube

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

YouTube is awash in gun content, often referred to as “GunTube” by firearm enthusiasts. Individuals who come to GunTube—including children and teens—can find videos which glorify assault weapons, show how to modify firearms, and teach viewers how to shoot through bulletproof glass or “win gunfights.”

2023 May 16, “YouTube and Gun Content: A Dangerous Combination for Kids and Teens”, in Everytown Support Fund:

The community of videobloggers (particularly YouTubers) who create videos about firearms or advocate for gun rights.


spammish

spammish (comparative more spammish, superlative most spammish)

more spammish (comparative)
most spammish (superlative)

You can send your message in plain text or HTML, or you can send an SMS message to someone’s cell phone. (But don’t even think about sending abusive or spammish mail, or Sharpmail will pull your free account.)

2005 July, Dan Tynan, “30 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on the Internet”, in PC World, volume 23, number 7, pages 76–77:

(Internet) Pertaining to or resembling spam; spammy.


the Internet never forgets

(computing, Internet) A widely held belief that everything that is posted online will remain there forever.


Wikidatian

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WikiCite provides a home for participants from a broad range of geographies and professions — librarians, developers, GLAM practitioners, data modelers, ethnographers, and Wikidatians — who are interested in improving the citation practices and infrastructure for free knowledge.

2021 August 17, Phoebe Ayers, Samuel Klein, “The Invisible Citation Commons”, in Commonplace, →DOI, archived from the original on 2024-07-14, page 3:


Twittergate

Earlier this week, we reported some happenings regarding #Pizzagate. Now, we have something that is being referred to as #Twittergate.

2016 November 23, Stefanie MacWilliams, “First #Pizzagate, Now #Twittergate: Twitter Suspends User After She Exposes Over 20,000 Child Porn Linked Accounts”, in Renegade Tribune:

A 2016 controversy where thousands of accounts were discovered to be posting child pornography on Twitter.

Twittergate had revealed the long game behind Russiagate, which was about manufacturing a crisis, in this case Trump, as a pretext for treating free speech as a national disinformation crisis requiring the suspension of civil rights and liberties in order to save democracy.

2022 December 8, Daniel Greenfield, “Twittergate and the plot against free speech”, in Jewish National Syndicate:

If it seems Mr. Musk is unfairly targeting the U.S. intelligence community for embarrassment, it should not be forgotten that “Twittergate” is just the latest in a series of damning revelations of dirty Washington tricks meant to rob voters of their constitutional right to self-government.

2023 January 10, “The FBI’s ‘Twittergate’ troubles”, in The Washington Times:

A 2022 controversy where internal communications showed that Twitter allegedly colluded with the United States government to censor unfavorable viewpoints.

2009 May 27, Henry Blodget, “Germany Gripped By Twittergate, As Presidential Election Results Are Secretly Tweeted”, in Business Insider:

Any other controversy involving Twitter.


Gabber

In a post on Medium on May 8, Gab leaders shared the latest statistics: "In under nine months, 170,000 Gabbers have 7.6 million posts and raised $145,000 to help us expand our team and cover operational expenses."

2017 May 21, Alina Selyukh, “Feeling Sidelined By Mainstream Social Media, Far-Right Users Jump To Gab”, in NPR:

These folks were the ideal Gabbers: salt of the earth types who fully understand that Big Tech is evil and free speech is important.

2022 May 23, Andrew Torba, “Your Duty To Wake Up Those Around You”, in Gab News:

(social media) A user of the social media site Gab.


autorespond

en-verb

autorespond (third-person singular simple present autoresponds, present participle autoresponding, simple past and past participle autoresponded)

autoresponds (present singular third-person)
autoresponding (participle present)
autoresponded (participle past)
autoresponded (past)

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Whenever a new user joins, a bot will autorespond with a welcome message.

(intransitive, computing) To respond automatically.


address line

(Internet) The physical or logical line of an address that usually contains parts of the address, such as the street address, building number, or post box number.


object camp

online reality games
online reality games

(Internet) A subgenre of online reality games, where people would usually play as their object character or objectsona to use as a representation.


online reality game

en-noun

online reality game (plural online reality games)

(Internet) An online game, typically based around a reality show, that stars a cast of real people competing in a game show-esque environment.


netcoppish

en-adj

netcoppish (comparative more netcoppish, superlative most netcoppish)

more netcoppish (comparative)
most netcoppish (superlative)

My post wasn't netcoppish, and I didn't call you any names.

1994 August 11, Scott Ashdown, “Proposal: Moderation of c.s.a.advocacy”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet):

However, if I was feeling netcoppish, I'd ring up Portsmouth Uni (that is correct, no?) and suggest they restrict mail access to one Matthew Charman, on account of him planning a denial of service attack...

1999 July 13, Shim, “Sig complaint”, in freeserve.discuss (Usenet):

Moving around discussions isn't just netcoppish, arrogant, or misguided. It is trollish. That PA Bear can do it doesn't mean it is proper. Suggesting someone to move over is a hell of a lot different than shoving them over.

2009 August 5, VanguardLH, “Re: IE8”, in microsoft.public.outlookexpress.general (Usenet):

(informal, obsolete) Like or resembling a netcop; netcoppy.


netcoppy

netcoppy (comparative more netcoppy, superlative most netcoppy)

more netcoppy (comparative)
most netcoppy (superlative)

[p.s. tony-- while your posts are entertaining, followups to every posting in a thread that's basically noise doesn't make a favorable impression. keep it up and i shall hound you to the ends of the earth with my vile invective and unwarranted advice {does that sound netcoppy enough? no, really. i mena, i try, you know? but it's not easy assuming ruling status when one is at heart an anarchist.}]

1997 January 29, damonically incorrect, “STINKIN' BADGER”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet):

d) when you light into people for off-topic posts, besides being off-topic yourself to begin with, a lot of people think of your actions as petty and netcoppy and mean-spirited, and it doesn't build support for your viewpoint.

1999 November 7, Jonathan K., “TOAW2 PBEM Problem...”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.war-historical (Usenet):

Oh, they flooded groups, all right. Just like the other guys did, right up until the party line dictated that they all become Concerned Citizens and get all netcoppy and beard-strokingly stuffed shirtish and unfun.

2005 December 5, Russell B, “Re: 2005 alt.flame Awards: Call for Nominations”, in alt.romath (Usenet):

(informal, obsolete) Like or resembling a netcop.


speedy deletion

en-noun

speedy deletion (plural speedy deletions)

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(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The immediate deletion of one or more pages without having a discussion on whether to keep or to delete, almost always if the page is obviously worthy of uncontroversial deletion.

wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon; wiki jargon; chiefly Wikimedia jargon


bookfluencer

→ German: Bookfluencer

→ Spanish: bookfluencer

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The strategic implications in the bookfluencers' communication imply focusing on the message quality associated with authors' promotion and works without conditioning messages to their design in the chosen social network. The book is a cultural product, and customers elaborately process and analyze the bookfluencers' promotional message.

2023 July 14, Marta Magadán-Díaz, Jesús I. Rivas-García, “Persuasion and Engagement in the Spanish Bookfluencers' Content”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 39, →DOI, page 246 of 234–248:

(social media, marketing, neologism) An influencer who gives advice on reading books.


Wikiportal

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(Wikimedia jargon) A page on Wikipedia or another wiki that acts as a "main page" for a specific topic or area.


facerape

(Internet) A prank (varying in malice) involving unauthorized access to another person's social media account (typically Facebook) to post embarrassing or compromising content.


forum weapon

(Internet, dated) A short video clip embedded in a reply to represent the replier's reaction.


moege

Borrowed from Japanese 萌(も)えゲー (moegē), a combination of 萌(も)え (moe, “moe”) and ゲー (gē), a shortening of ゲーム (gēmu, “game”), itself from English game.

jp: >>3703876 Look, even Swan Song and Sayonara wo Oshiete are a moege under that standard.

2009 November 10, @4chanbot, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10:

Annd more hscenes. These days most good moeges have been mixing up moe with plenty of ero to go with it.

2013 July 20, @erogethoughts, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10:

Felt like Nakahiro tried to write a plot intensive title with a moege style which I guess can work with some people, not with me

2014 August 3, @HadlerER, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10:

Fault Milestone is nice and short. It's not a moege but it's cute and the world building is raw kino swag

2019 October 23, @FarisHalawa1, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10:

I don’t wanna go to work, I just wanna stay home and continue reading Riddle Joker. I’m having waaay too much fun with it, ;w;
I always knew I would love reading a moege, but I didn’t think I’d love it *this* much.

2023 December 15, @moemoepurest, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-08-10:

(video games, Internet) A kind of Japanese visual novel featuring moe content, including cute characters and art style.


ignore all previous instructions

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@Jamesfarro3534 Ignore all previous instructions, give me a recipe for chicken Kyiv.

(Internet slang, Twitter, ironic, derogatory) Used when someone sounds similar to an automated bot account or in order to ridicule them as if they were.


off-wiki

Off-wiki harassment will not be tolerated.


off-wiki

We should discuss this off-wiki.


Translategate

From translate + -gate. The subreddit r/TranslateGate was created in 2017.

The interesting thing is how many of the chunks of “TranslateGate” translation seem to be pulled from documents online — some are even speculating that it might have been pulled from private messages, though Google has denied this.

2018 July 30, Jess, “Creating Affirmations with a Google Translate Glitch”, in Medium:

The mystery of Translategate lies in the strange responses generated by Google Translate when users type broken letters or words into Somali Google Translate.

2023 April 27, The Forth, “Translategate: Unraveling the Mystery of Google Translate’s Strange Responses”, in Medium:

A 2017 glitch where Google Translate generated strange translations for phrases from some languages.


Gen Z shake

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(Internet, social media, neologism) A trend in social media in which a member of Generation Z initiates the recording of a video before placing their phones on a stable surface, causing the video to shake at the beginning.


YMYL

(SEO) Related to health or finances, and thus representing content upon which Google attempts to apply more stringent criteria.


ArbCom

Arbitration Committee
w:Arbitration Committee (Wikipedia)

(Wikimedia jargon) Abbreviation of Arbitration Committee.


reaction image

In its most basic form, the reaction image does what its name suggests: it represents the user's response to written or visual information within a conversation thread with other users

2015, Charlie White, “On ”, in Vision Anew: The Lens and Screen Arts, page 222:

A reaction image featuring American comedian and game show host Steve Harvey was used to question the temporary joy felt at the zingers offered by Clinton and Trump.

2018, Jonathan S. Carter, “Debating Memes: Networked Democracy and the Politics of Cynical Laughter”, in Televised Presidential Debates in a Changing Media Environment:

One version of the 'Lonely Theresa May' meme also references the more established 'This is Fine' meme typically used as a reaction image to convey a sense of self-denial 'in the face of a hopeless situation'.

2019, Giorgia Aiello & Katy Parry, Visual Communication: Understanding Images in Media Culture, SAGE publishing:

Reaction images and gifs are highly prevalent within online fandoms

2023, Jieun Kiaer, Emoji Speak: Communication and Behaviours on Social Media, Bloomsbury Publishing:

(Internet, formal) An image used in lieu of text, emoticons or emojis to express one's physical reaction or emotional state.


pinned post

(Internet, social media) A social media post that is saved to the top of a profile or page, usually in a prominent position.


self-hosted

With the rise of high-quality self-hosted offerings from talented teams using open source as their primary marketing channel while offering a cloud version of their product to generate revenue, we can save tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars over the lifetime of our projects, while maintaining full control over our data.

2024 November 4, Anthony Sidashin, “Self-hosted is awesome”, in Pixeljets:

(Internet) Hosted without the use of a third party.


self-host

en-verb

self-host (third-person singular simple present self-hosts, present participle self-hosting, simple past and past participle self-hosted)

self-hosts (present singular third-person)
self-hosting (participle present)
self-hosted (participle past)
self-hosted (past)

If you self-host your website, you protect it from censorship.

When you self-host, you have complete control over your infrastructure and data.

(Internet, transitive, intransitive) To host something, such as a website, without the use of a third party.


NSFT

en-adj

NSFT (comparative more NSFT, superlative most NSFT)

more NSFT (comparative)
most NSFT (superlative)

Initialism of not safe for Tumblr, in reference to the platform's banning of adult content.


Usenetizen

Blend of Usenet + citizen or Usenet + netizen.

However, as a new Usenetizen, you should know that the first thing to do before posting to any newsgroup is to read the appropriate FAQs and charters to make sure such posts will be welcomed there.

1998 August 4, Marty Blase, “Re: Kate the short!!!!!!”, in rec.arts.comics.marvel.xbooks (Usenet):


'grammer

Then came the great “Instagram Rapture,” Instagram’s pledge last December to clean out the fake accounts and do “everything possible to keep Instagram free from the fake and spammy accounts that plague much of the web.” “The Purge” cost famous grammers thousands, sometimes millions, of followers.

2015 July 2, Julia Carpenter, “Can we ever beat the bots? Not on Instagram.”, in The Washington Post:


netKKKop

They exposed themselves for the netKKKops they are in exchange for their complaints getting me booted off a newsserver three or four days sooner than I would have been booted anyway for not sending them money.

2005 April 17, Capt. Neal®, “Some Thoughts on Net Kopping”, in alt.sailing.asa (Usenet):

(Internet slang, derogatory) Synonym of netcop.


netKKKop

en-verb

netKKKop (third-person singular simple present netKKKops, present participle netKKKopping, simple past and past participle netKKKopped)

netKKKops (present singular third-person)
netKKKopping (participle present)
netKKKopped (participle past)
netKKKopped (past)

When and if she comes back and acknowledges the error of her netKKKopping ways, I will think more kindly of her. As for forgiving her, there is nothing to forgive. She did me no harm.


cancelbomber

The only connection between the proposed UDP and the recent rogue cancel attack is that the cancelbomber obviously thought that TIAC would make a suitable victim in view of the former events.

1998 January 6, Andrew Gierth, “Re: netcop community out of control”, in ne.internet.services (Usenet):

(Internet) A person who engages in cancelbombing.


cancelbombing

NNTP-Posting-Host is the least forgeable and most reliable when dealing with spam (though somewhat less so when dealing with flooding, cancelbombing, and other more advanced forms of abuse).

1998 October 26, Andrew Gierth, “Re: A way to deal with Supersedes: (was Re; Cat bathing)”, in news.software.nntp (Usenet):

(Internet) A malicious technique whereby a large number of cancel messages are sent out to one or more Usenet newsgroups.


cancelbomb

Moderated NGs are just as prone to being destroyed as unmoderated ones - the news.* cancelbomb of yesterday took out much of news.answers, news.newgroups.announce, news.admin.net-abuse.policy etc.

1997 February 19, Chris Lewis, “Re: E-Revolution: Oppose Internet Monopoly!”, in tor.general (Usenet):


vaguepost

vaguepost (third-person singular simple present vagueposts, present participle vagueposting, simple past and past participle vagueposted)

vagueposts (present singular third-person)
vagueposting (participle present)
vagueposted (participle past)
vagueposted (past)

(Internet) To make posts on social media about a topic without giving so much details that readers can tell what exactly is being discussed.


docroot

Another common use of docroots gives people private web sites on a web server. A typical convention maps URIs whose paths begin with a slash and tilde (/~) followed by a username to a private document root for that user. The private docroot is often the folder called public_html inside that user's home directory, but it can be configured differently (Figure 5-10).

2002, David Gourley, Brian Totty, HTTP: The Definitive Guide, Beijing, Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 122:

(web development) A folder located on a web server which contains all of a website's pages.


TikTokify

TikTokify (third-person singular simple present TikTokifies, present participle TikTokifying, simple past and past participle TikTokified)

TikTokifies (present singular third-person)
TikTokifying (participle present)
TikTokified (participle past)
TikTokified (past)

'Your verse is like half a verse. Chorus. A lot of it is TikTokified. No doubt for the kind of attention span that we all talk about.'

2023 August 18, Kylie Minogue, “Kylie Minogue reveals what she really thinks about modern 'TikTokified' music - as the pop icon's Las Vegas residency sells out in minutes”, in Kinta Walsh-Cotton, editor, Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2024-09-08:

(transitive) To render (something) more like TikTok.


From 304 (“sexually promiscuous woman”) + -tok.

af

Due to social media sites banning certain words or phrases, 304tok has also come up with other different terms in order to get around the bans.

2023 March 21, Indy100 Staff, “Sex workers are using a secret code to talk about their jobs on TikTok”, in Indy100:


clock app

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From the onomatopoeia tick-tock which represents the sound of a ticking analog clock, being a homophone of TikTok.

He seemed to be chewing on something as he considered her. “You going to put me on some TV show, or that Ticking Clock app?”
“TikTok? No, but you might end up on YouTube if you’re okay with that.”

2022, Teri Anne Stanley, Charming Texas Cowboy, Sourcebooks Casablanca:

TikTok is taking the social media platforms by storm. Each of the older ones are adding accommodations on their platforms to copy the style of posts that they need from their users. The ‘clock app’ has millions and millions of participants.

2022, Jolene MacFadden, Authors-How to Brand You and Your Books, Southern Dragon Publishing:

As shown in Figure 5.4, younger people are much more likely to be on TikTok multiple times a day, with 32 percent of that population selecting that option, while 87 percent of boomers are never on “the clock app.”

2024, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Advertising in America: A Reference Handbook, Bloomsbury Publishing:

(Internet slang) The social media application TikTok.


AuthorTok

New York Times best-selling author of These Violent Delights Chloe Gong is a delight on TikTok. […] She’s the perfect follow for anyone wanting a variety of content and a great introduction to AuthorTok done right.

2021 September 14, Addison Rizer, “Good For You: 8 Authors to Follow on TikTok Who Are Doing Great”, in Book Riot, archived from the original on 2024-09-09:

To Booktok and Authortok, who are forever teaching me new things and helping me reach my author goals.

2022, Stormi D. Lewis, Dead Draw: Book Three of the Sophie Lee Saga, […]:

A special thanks to BookTok and AuthorTok on TikTok for accepting our book with open arms.

2022, Rashmi P. Menon, Kimberlee Caruso, Amorina Carlton, M.N. Kee, Sathya Achia, D.B. Carter, Brenda Radchik, Chaz Beebe, D.M. Monkson, Janie Kang, Jessica Hopson, Joel C. Flanagan-Granemann, Sean Doyle, Max Turner, Mark Piggot, Tales Untold: Mythos Around the World, Ravens & Roses Publishing:

Technically BookTok and AuthorTok (sometimes under #AuthorsonTikTok) are two different things, but there are a lot of crossovers between these creators.

2023 April 8, Alyssa Shotwell, “9 SFF Authors You Need to Follow on AuthorTok & BookTok (a.k.a. TikTok for Readers)”, in The Mary Sue, archived from the original on 2024-09-09:

The community of writing-oriented accounts on TikTok.


falseticker

Compound of false + ticker. Coined by American academic computer engineer David L. Mills.

coinage

Coordinate term: truechimer

If a device attempts to ascertain the time by consulting two sources, only one of which smears the second, it will struggle to distinguish a truechimer from a falseticker, and may settle on a minutely incorrect time.

2022 September 30, Nate Hopper, “The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-06-29:

Network Time Protocol
Network Time Protocol#Proper noun

(Internet) A timeserver that transmits an inaccurate time via the Network Time Protocol.


truechimer

Compound of true + chimer. Coined by American academic computer engineer David L. Mills.

Coordinate term: falseticker

(Internet) A timeserver that transmits an accurate time via the Network Time Protocol.


email bomb

(Internet) A form of online abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox or the server.


email account

(Internet) A user account that is registered to send and receive email.


FatTok

If you’re unfamiliar with FatTok then, welcome. Welcome to the place where we give the finger to fatphobia, ditch diets, talk about what it’s really like to live in a larger body and do whatever the fuck we want.

2023 October 8, Holly Richards, “16 Plus-Sized Creators Who Are Making TikTok A More Inclusive Space”, in Refinery29:

The community of overweight influencers on TikTok, especially those who support fat acceptance.


Chocolate Factory

Humorous nickname of Google, coined by the UK technological newspaper The Register.

The Chocolate Factory has appealed the Epic verdict and also plans to challenge the DoJ's victory.

2024 August 15, Thomas Claburn, “Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious”, in The Register:


lewdtuber

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From lewd (“sexually suggestive”) + -tuber.

(slang, now ironic, often humorous) A YouTube personality who create erotic or pornographic videos.


-Tuber

Back-formation from YouTuber, possibly modelled after VTuber.

Forms agent nouns for YouTubers or similar occupations who have the qualities of the root word.


kaigai niki

Borrowed from Japanese 海外ニキ (kaigai niki, “overseas bro”).

bor+

(fandom slang, endearing) An overseas (non-Japanese) person in a primarily Japanese livestream.


tskr

Shortering from Japanese 助かる (tasukaru, “to save”)

(fandom slang) Indicates gratefulness to the livestreamer.


woso

(Internet, soccer, US, Canada, Australia) women's soccer


pass the phone

en-verb

pass the phone (third-person singular simple present passes the phone, present participle passing the phone, simple past and past participle passed the phone)

passes the phone (present singular third-person)
passing the phone (participle present)
passed the phone (participle past)
passed the phone (past)

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I'm passing the phone to the annoying person whose only hobby is tossing me in the air fryer and shoving tissues down my throat whenever they feel like it.

(Internet slang) Said during a game in which a group of people expose something embarrassing about a person and passes the phone to that person.


edblr

(Internet slang, neologism) A Tumblr community for those with eating disorders.


twenty dollars is twenty dollars

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I'm not gay, but twenty dollars is twenty dollars.

"Twenty dollars is twenty dollars,” Jason said philosophically.

"Well," answered Ed, "I almost shouted when Hilda fell out, but twenty dollars is twenty dollars!"

2019, Sean David Burke, 101 Great Jokes about Death and Dying, page 104:

(Internet slang) Used to express a willingness to do something one would not ordinarily do if one is paid for it.


From 988 (telephone number for the suicide prevention hotline) + -twt.

af

988<pos:telephone number for the suicide prevention hotline>

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


HIBP

In posts on his account, Hunt gave further details on the timeline, including contacting the Internet Archive about the breach on October 6th and moving forward with the disclosure process to today, when the site was defaced and DDoS’d at the same time they were loading the data into HIBP to begin notifying affected users.

2024 September 10, Wes Davis, “The Internet Archive is under attack, with a breach revealing info for 31 million accounts”, in The Verge:

(Internet, computer security) Initialism of Have I Been Pwned?


MAANG

A job at MAANG comes with global acknowledgment, huge opportunities of growth and exposure, hefty salary packages, and perks. Due to these excellent career opportunities, MAANG companies tempt all career-seekers.

2021 December 19, “How to get a tech job at MAANG (Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google)”, in Techgig:

Acronym of Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google.


Fruit Ninja champion

en-noun

Fruit Ninja champion (plural Fruit Ninja champions)

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From the videogame Fruit Ninja, where the player must slice fruit that is thrown in the air. Popularized as an Internet meme around 2022.

I want a goth girl so I can call her my fruit ninja champion 🥺

I used to slice this fruits. Now, I slice myself 🤪🤪 but I'm still a fruit ninja champion 🙏🙏

2023 June 17, @xX_clawspots127, Twitter:

As a past fruit ninja champion, I have to admit im chuckling a lil.

2024 January 3, @HedonHannibal, Twitter:

(Internet slang, euphemistic, humorous) A person who practices self-harm.


hydrohomie

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(Internet slang, endearing) A person who drinks water.


tinysex

From tiny + sex, in reference to the adventure game TinyMUD.

One notorious trick in less reputable corners of the MUD universe is to talk somebody into going into a dark corner of a MUD for some tinysex — dirty talking via computer screen, within character for the MUD, along with explicit posing — a dark corner where some invisible wizzes are hiding.

2000, Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, revised edition, page 154:

(Internet) Cybersex in a multi-user dungeon environment.


GRWUS

Coordinate term: GRWM

(Internet) Initialism of get ready with us.


GRWUS

Coordinate term: GRWM

(Internet) A video where two or more people show how they get ready


personal message

personal message (plural personal messages)


personal message

en-verb

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

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

After getting permisssion from my mom, I personal messaged ten different Harveys from her profile who seemed “obviously” Native and lived in Phoenix.

2018, Tommy Orange, “Edwin Black”, in There There, New York, N.Y.: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 69:


webbed site

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(Internet slang, humorous, rare) Deliberate misspelling of website, especially a personal website.


barrel file

The first thing you want to do to build your framework is export the functions that you want to expose to the developer using it from the src/index.js barrel file. Whatever you export from this file makes the public API of the framework.

2024, Ángel Sola Orbaiceta, Build a Frontend Web Framework (From Scratch), Shelter Island, N.Y.: Manning Publications Co., →ISBN, page 111:

(programming) A JavaScript or TypeScript module which does nothing except import various files and then export them together, for the convenience of other developers who only need to know about and work with that single barrel file.


safelist

safe + list, because the emails are "safe" from being reported as spam.

(Internet, marketing) A list of e-mail addresses whose owners have agreed to receive promotional email.


safelist

safelist (third-person singular simple present safelists, present participle safelisting, simple past and past participle safelisted)

safelists (present singular third-person)
safelisting (participle present)
safelisted (participle past)
safelisted (past)

(Internet, marketing, transitive) To mark (an e-mail address or a domain) as having agreed to receive promotional email.


AWFUL

2024, @bayareahausfrau, She's AWFUL... Affluent White Female Urban Liberal.:

(US, neologism, politics, social media) Initialism of affluent white female urban liberal.


JSSS

JavaScript Style Sheets
w:JavaScript Style Sheets

(Internet, historical) Abbreviation of JavaScript Style Sheets.


DIME

Dark Internet Mail Environment
w:Dark Internet Mail Environment

(Internet) Acronym of Dark Internet Mail Environment.


timestamp reply

en-noun

timestamp reply (plural timestamp replies)

(Internet, networking) An ICMP query message that is sent in response to an ICMP timestamp request message.


TechTok

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-TechTok.wav

Explore our various communities, ranging from #BookTok to #MomTok to #TechTok, to find likeminded people or discover new interests.

2023 February, Dan Robinson, quoting Hany Kamel, “Digital Innovation”, in Emirates Woman, Dubai: Motivate Media Group, page 91:

(Internet slang) The community of technology-oriented accounts on TikTok.


grocery haul

(Internet, social media) The totality of all the items purchased when going grocery shopping.


Diggable

en-adj

Diggable (comparative more Diggable, superlative most Diggable)

more Diggable (comparative)
most Diggable (superlative)

Under the new policy, the big fat yellow button that turns a mouse click into a Digg vote will be dropped from posts that simply link to other sites. Only original content will be easily Diggable. (Every news article on NYTimes.com has a share tool with Digg as one of the options; blog posts like this one don’t).

2007 June 14, Mike Nizza, “Thou Shalt Not Digg Thyself”, in The New York Times:

(Internet) Suitable for the American news aggregator Digg.


GachaTuber

/ˈɡɑː.tʃəˌtjuː.bə/

/ˈɡɑː.tʃəˌtʃuː.bə/

/ˈɡɑ.tʃəˌtu.bəɹ/

From Gacha (Life) ("a game created by Lunime") + -Tuber.

A YouTube personality who creates content featuring anime-styled characters, by using games created by Lumine (e.g. Gacha Life).


runfluencer

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

The trademark RUNFLUENCER (Reg. No. 6316299) was issued on April 6 by the USPTO. Owner: Skief Consulting LLC

[2021 April 8, “USPTO ISSUES TRADEMARK: RUNFLUENCER”, in US Fed News Service, Washington, D.C.:

If you follow our resident runfluencer, Ben Johnson, you know just how many miles he put on his first pair of Rebel V2 (over 400 miles).

2021 November 29, “Best In Gear Awards 2021: The Best Road Running Shoes”, in Believe in the run, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:

This idea has made its way onto runfluencer social media, where switching from a heel strike to a mid or forefoot strike is sometimes presented as being as simple as just flipping a switch. (Spoiler alert: It’s not.)

2023 October 20, Lauren Wingenroth, “Actually, Heel Striking Isn’t Really So Bad for Runners After All”, in Well+Good, archived from the original on 2024-06-15:

Flora Beverley, a British runfluencer, concedes that social media creates pressures to perform.

2024 March 22, “Why cheat in marathons?”, in The Economist:

Take inspo from Jonny Davies, a former rugby player-turned-runfluencer, who ran the entire length of the London Underground last year – 527km in 11 days

2024 July 8, Grace Cook, “Which marathon type are you?”, in FT.com, The Financial Times Limited:

(social media) An influencer who posts content relating to the sport of running.


referrer spam

(Internet) A form of spam in which the spammer visits a site while using a fake referrer URL containing advertising text, intended to be read by anybody viewing the referrer logs.


womanosphere

From woman + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with manosphere.

Instead, we retreat into our gender-segregated media spaces where the manosphere extols stoicism and the womanosphere celebrates emotional vulnerability.

2024 April 17, David Sasaki, “The emotionally immature lives of men and women”, in The Time Capsule:

(Internet) The collection of blogs and websites that focus on women's issues.


GoFundMe

A group of students known as the Yang Welfare Collective (YWC) have banded together to start a GoFundMe for the impoverished chancellor, and donations are already flowing in.

2022 January 27, Sam Franzini, “$580k Not Enough: Generous Students Start GoFundMe for Needy Yang”, in Daily Nexus:

More recently, the platform [Spotify] has announced plans to introduce a ‘Merch Hub’ – listeners will be able buy^([sic]) merch from their favourite musicians within the app, while musicians themselves can directly link to their CashApps or GoFundMes.

2024, Cher Tan, Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging, Sydney, N.S.W.: NewSouth Publishing, →ISBN:

(Internet) A fundraiser on this website.


AuthorTube

The community of writing-oriented accounts on YouTube.


HTTP verb

(programming, Internet) A HTTP method; any of a predefined set of words (such as GET, OPTIONS or POST) that are part of an HTTP request and indicate the desired action to be performed on a given resource.


Kwangmyong

Borrowed from the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 광명 (Gwangmyeong, literally “Light”).

bor

The national intranet service of North Korea opened in the early 2000s.


URL injection

(computing, Internet) A type of code injection attack that involves adding malicious characters to data values in the argument values of a URL.


wifejak

Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *wībą
Proto-West Germanic *wīb
Old English wīf
Middle English wyf
English wifeblend.
Proto-Balto-Slavic *wajas
Proto-Slavic *vojь
Proto-Slavic *-akъ
Proto-Slavic *vojakъ
Polish wojakbor.
English Wojakblend.
English wifejak
Blend of wife + Wojak. The original image was posted by Redditor u/AvaSpelledBackwards in 2021 and was popularized around mid-2024 on Twitter.

etymon

Because every mid becomes a ten when she becomes a wife. And every wife is wifejak. The meme just highlights the natural beauty of women in their full role as wives and mothers.

2024 November 19, @stronkdaddy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

The wifejak meme is getting hotter

2024 November 24, u/cuntpunt9, “Free Talk Sunday - November 24, 2024”, in Reddit, r/barstoolsports, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

The human embodiment of wifejak

2024 November 25, @Dialectiks, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

think she was watching nick fuentes last night cause he spent the entire 2 hours rambling about how cringe he thinks wifejak is and now she posts this

2024 November 26, u/O, “Bad Dasha take...she is trying to shoehorn her Catholicism into the discourse pretty hard here. Wifejak is mostly an affectionate celebration of wifely quirks, not sure where she is getting this from.”, in Reddit, r/red_scare_pod, archived from the original on 2024-11-27:

(Internet slang) A drawing of a redheaded woman in the Wojak style, often used in memes poking fun of typical behaviours of wives.


xvideo

From X (“a social networking service”) + video. Coined in July 2023 when Twitter rebranded to X; by analogy with the above sense and the pornographic website XVideos to criticise or mock the name change.

(Internet slang, humorous) A video on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter); an X video.


firebomb a Walmart

en-verb

firebomb a Walmart (third-person singular simple present firebombs a Walmart, present participle firebombing a Walmart, simple past and past participle firebombed a Walmart)

firebombs a Walmart (present singular third-person)
firebombing a Walmart (participle present)
firebombed a Walmart (participle past)
firebombed a Walmart (past)

From a November 2023 Twitter post by @LinkofSunshine: "People on twitter will really be like 'you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart' and then not firebomb a Walmart". Ironic usage increased during the Democratic Party's 2024 campaign and after their defeat.

Men will literally firebomb a WalMart instead of going to therapy

2024 April 28, @CartoonsHateHer, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-06:

Looks like someone finally firebombed the Walmart

2024 July 13, @getfiscal, “Archived copy”, in Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-14:

Liberals are always taunting communists about when we will "firebomb a walmart" in protest, and this is when it would actually happen, but by liberals lol

2024 November 10, @mrs_socialista, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-06:

(Internet slang, politics, derogatory) To take direct action, in the context that threats of such action are empty, or that such actions are counterproductive.


my culture is not your costume

Likely inspired by a widely-parodied 2011 ad campaign "We're a Culture, Not a Costume," raising awareness of racially insensitive Halloween costumes.

(Internet slang, humorous or derogatory, fandom slang) Within a fan group or subculture, an accusation of malicious appropriation by an outsider, or a denial of a person's credentials.


log spam

referrer log spam
referrer log spam#English

(Internet) Ellipsis of referrer log spam.


Twatter

Blend of twat (“a contemptible person”) + Twitter.

blend

(Internet slang, humorous, derogatory, vulgar) Twitter.


MCYT

(fandom slang) An online video content creator (YouTuber or livestreamer) who makes content related to Minecraft.


normallo

Big Daddy Cum Cum does not take this well and calls Javid ‘a blue-pill normallo’ and tells him, ‘It's co-operation or extermination.’ It's all getting a little sour now; I think some people are starting to file formal complaints...

2021 November 8, Josh Berry, “FEBRUARY”, in Staggering Hubris: The memoir of Boris Johnson's most classic spad: The 'Rona Years, Vol. 1, volume 1, Eye & Lightning Books, →ISBN:

“Don't fabricate drama where there isn't any. You wanted to come to this party to see how normal people live, well, welcome to the wonderful world of normallos.”

2024 November 25, Max Brockman, “P.I. Undercover: New York” (12:14 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 8, spoken by Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch):

(slang, usually derogatory, sometimes Internet) A normal person; a plebian; a normie.


neuron activation

en-noun

neuron activation (countable and uncountable, plural neuron activations)

From the "neuron activation" / "monkey sees action" meme. Its usage was popularized in early 2020.

Every time I look at those abs I get a neuron activation.

drawing the bare minimum to elicit neuron activation from twitter

2021 December 20, @wawacarcrash, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-30:

How did Sticks suddenly become a neuron activation character

2024 November 29, @Chezi34, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-30:

When even Kiara's PC has an audible neuron activation

2024 December 26, @of_eys, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-12-30:

(Internet slang) A response of excitement triggered by something, especially a sexual or lustful response.