Donbabwe

Portmanteau of Ukrainian Донецьк (Donecʹk) or Russian Донецк (Doneck) + Zimbabwe, meant to suggest underdevelopment, poverty, and endemic corruption. Alternatively borrowed directly from either Russian Донба́бве (Donbábve) or Ukrainian Донба́бве (Donbábve).

Coordinate term: Luganda

Donetsk People's Republic
Donetsk People's Republic

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donetsk, in particular the mostly unrecognised Donetsk People's Republic.

A similar pattern was reserved for Donbass in the abusive name "Donbabwe" which comprises "Donbass" and "Zimbabwe".

2019, Lorella Viola, Andreas Musolff, Migration and Media: Discourses about identities in crisis, →ISBN, Chapter 11, page 285:

(derogatory, humorous, Internet) Donbass


surprised Pikachu

en-noun

surprised Pikachu (plural surprised Pikachus)

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Some of Broncos Country is left fuming over a start so poor that it is the only team in franchise history that has been this inept, but the rest of us are wearing the surprised Pikachu face.

2019 October 2, James Burky, “Fangio not at fault for foul start to season”, in The Metropolitan, MSU Denver, page 8:

Then without saying so much as a goodbye to Laurie or Steve, who has just arrived at the scene with a surprised-Pikachu look on his face, Will marches toward the exit.

2020, Isla Chiu, Ringing in the Lunar New Year, unnumbered page:

"I don't choose my monsters based on how cute they are, you know."
"You don't?! Really?"
Duh. Why the surprised Pikachu face?

2022, Yuu Tanaka, translated by Yuko C. Shimomoto, A Late-Start Tamer’s Laid-Back Life: Volume 3, unnumbered page:

(Internet slang) Synonym of shocked Pikachu.


Leopards Eating Faces Party

the Leopards Eating Faces Party (canonical)

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Always a rush when Members of Parliament for the Leopards Eating Faces Party suddenly discover the horror of faces eaten by leopards.

2019 August 19, Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg), Twitter:

“I never thought Leopards would eat *my* face, sobs broadcaster who mortgaged its integrity for the Leopards Eating Faces Party.”

2019 December 15, Andrew James Carter (@Carter_AndrewJ), Twitter:

"I never thought the leopards would *actually* eat people's faces," sobs centrist politician who didn't really become concerned when the Leopards Eating Faces Party started gaining power.

2022 June 24, Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous), Twitter:

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party#English

(Internet slang, sarcastic) Alternative form of Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.


Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

en-proper noun

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party or the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

Leopards Eating People's Faces Party (canonical)

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From an October 2015 tweet by Adrian Bott (@cavalorn) that went viral: "I never thought leopards would eat MY face," sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

'I didn't want leopards to eat ANYONE'S face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

2018 November 20, James Chalmers (@ProfChalmers), Twitter:

Top officials of Leopards Eating People's Faces party, having presented leopard w/ options including face-eating, are flabbergasted that the leopard would eat their face

2020 January 4, Dana Stevens (@thehighsign), Twitter:

entire front bench of the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party tendering their solemn and sincere resignations because they can no longer support a PM so shockingly in favour, as it turns out, of leopards eating people's faces

2022 July 6, THE...Sodomite Hal Duncan!! (@Hal_Duncan), Twitter:

(Internet slang, sarcastic, politics) A notional political party supported by people who believe its cruel, unjust, or extreme policies and rhetoric will only harm other people, and are then shocked or displeased when these policies and rhetoric have adverse consequences to themselves.


ma'am, this is an Arby's

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

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


ma'am, this is a Wendy's

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I simply could not imagine going about my day in this heightened-reality femme fever dream of an outfit without at least a few well-meaning people stopping to inform me that, "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."

2021 July 3, Jess Joho, “That viral Selkie puff dress only works for the Instagram fantasy world”, in Mashable:


and then everyone on the bus clapped

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"....and then everyone on the bus clapped"
 This story reeks of being only very loosely based on a real event and every character in it kind of has the same voice.

2017 November 26, Aurora Borealis (@RebelMechaniker), Twitter:

And then everyone on the bus clapped! That's a very nice anecdote that has zero basis in reality.

2020 January 1, Tom-A062 (@Tom_A062), Twitter:

And then everyone on the bus clapped.
Yeah this didn't happen.

2022 April 2, Bugpope (@PopeBug), Twitter:

(Internet slang) Used to refute or express doubt of the veracity of an anecdote.


rec.gamer

Hello, fellow rec.gamers !
I tried subscribing to the Forgotten Realms mailing list using the contact information that appeared in the FAQ of rec.g.frp.announce conf, but without success.

1992 November 20, a...@ax.apc.org, “Needed : Forgotten Realms Material”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16:

Hey there all you rec.gamers :) if anyone out there has a move sheet for godzilla vs. PLEASE post it, or better yet, mail it to me :)

1994 December 26, Ben, “REQ: move list for Godzilla Vs.”, in rec.games.video.nintendo (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16:

This reminds me of last years post gathering debate about whether or not the Lions should have been flanged. Same essential argument then, was flanging the Lions and saving their Gathering worth irritating the rest of us with the flange? Of course Bruce went on to turn them round into a shit-kicking faction, obviously just to spite all us rec.gamers who voted to close them down. :)

1997 September 18, Mr M.I. Pennington, “[Gathering] Making a killing at the Gathering...”, in rec.games.frp.live-action (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16:

Hello Rec Gamers,
I am in need of a Star Trek: The Next Generation instruction card. Anyone have one to spare? Or can anyone tell me how to format Mr. Stambaugh's STTNG card.gif so that it would be regular size when printed from netscape?

2000 February 15, Mike, “WANTED: STTNG instruction card”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16:

Thanks to GOCATGO and others who pointed me in the right direction. Game plays perfect now - open invitation to any Rec-Gamer who wants to stop by and play - it's an addictive game.

2007 July 29, stlouispinball, “EM Tech: Game Start-up on Williams Teachers Pet”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16:

Have Pin I need picked up, if anyone has the ability and room. WIll discuss payment if it fits in your schedule. Rather give it to a Rec Gamer than NAVL. Thanks!

2007 September 19, flex0...@gmail.com, “Anybody Coming from Kansas to Central Ohio in a week or so?”, in rec.games.pinball (Usenet), retrieved 2022-07-16:

(Internet slang) A participant in the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.


Derpina

The name of a character portrayed in rage comics; from Derp + -ina.

It makes that Derpina you dated in 6th grade for two weeks the hottest girl in school.

2012 April 13, Brian Westfall, “Brian’s Trinity: The three bands that aren’t as terrible as you remember”, in Trinitonian, volume 109, number 25, San Antonio, Tex., page 21:

“I’m not even talking to you so how can I be irritating you?” Adriana said. “Because you’re a total derpina,” Chloe said.

2013 May, Bruce Kimmel, Murder at the School Musical, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 142:

One such sketch focuses on Derpina, Bouzebal’s female friend, and her difficulties in succeeding in the Baccalaureate (see Figure 3.2).

2014 March, Linda Herrera, editor, Wired Citizenship: Youth Learning and Activism in the Middle East, Routledge, →ISBN:

Derpina: Guys, can someone send me ₱10 of load? It’s an emergency! / Derp: Here, you can use my phone. What’s wrong?

2014 November, “Slangtionary”, in The Spectrum, volume 59, number 4, page 24:

(slang) A female placeholder name, the female equivalent of Derp, perhaps indicating derpiness.


flop era

From the practice of ironically referring to a life phase as an era on the social media platform TikTok (compare Fleabag era).

Hi Professor, I was just wondering if it is possible to get an extension on the assignment? I'm in my flop era. Thanks

2020, @teaxtarot, quoted in "Tweets of the Week", Utah Statesman (Utah State University), 2 November 2020, page 8

We're in a collective flop era and there's a gorgeous sense of community in that.

2021, Maddy Black, "Unearthing Your Truth: Astrology Edition", Greater Expectations (University College London), Spring 2021, page 14

Your resolutions: Exit your flop era, resolve all conflicts that riddle your relationships, purchase a disco ball for your bedroom

2022 January, Gillian Maltz, “New Year's Horoscopes”, in The Melange, page 16:

(Internet slang) A period marked by failure, lack of success, or the inability to function.


portalization

[…] and an ongoing process of Net "portalization" (the growth of one stop or more aptly, first stop — shopping and search sites such as Yahoo, Excite, MSN, etc.).

2002, Greg Elmer, Critical Perspectives on the Internet, page x:

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:


hashtaggable

en-adj

hashtaggable (comparative more hashtaggable, superlative most hashtaggable)

more hashtaggable (comparative)
most hashtaggable (superlative)

(Internet) Suitable for use as a hashtag.


FirstName BunchOfNumbers

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Firstname Bunchofnumbers
Firstname Bunchofnumbers#English

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


Firstname Bunchofnumbers

en-proper noun

Firstname Bunchofnumbers (plural Firstname Bunchofnumberses)

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When someone attempts to register a Twitter account name that is already taken, the site suggests the inputted name followed by a long, randomly-generated string of numbers as an alternative (e.g. "@Wiktion74587432" instead of "@Wiktionary"). This has led to many anonymous accounts with handles that consist of a given name and a string of numbers (e.g. "@Jane74587432675").

You can always rely on FirstName BunchOfNumbers to have the worst opinions.

2020 December 11, Chris Hanna (@MegaNerd98), Twitter:

Internet protip: if you can't mention the name of something or someone without getting spam bots and Firstname Bunchofnumberses promoting or defending that thing, it's probably not a good thing.

2022 January 9, Klin T. Catgirl (@KlinTCatgirl), Twitter:

Got into a debate with Firstname Bunchofnumbers.
I won't be doing that again.

2022 July 26, Russell Hillman (@allhellismrsun), Twitter:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A Twitter user suspected to be a troll, sockpuppet, or bot due to having a default-style account name and a history of odd, tendentious, or offensive posts.


red-linked

(Internet, wiki jargon) Marked by a red link (a hyperlink that directs to a nonexistent wiki page).


blue-linked

(Internet, wiki jargon) Marked by a blue link (a hyperlink that directs to an existing wiki page)


-blr

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


Simblr

Simblrs may contain a range of content from downloadable mods, sims, houses, and custom content to stories, gameplay shots, animated GIFs, and personal blog posts.

2015, Ruth A. Deller, "Simblr famous and SimSecret infamous: Performance, community norms, and shaming among fans of The Sims", Transformative Works and Cultures, Number 18 (link)

I'm sure you will be impressed by the content of this Simblr: downloads, pictures, a legacy challenge...

2015 March, “Simblrs”, in Sims Vita, number 2, page 71:

I only have a few close friends who know my Simblr, and they haven't spoken to me about it yet […]

2018, Reshaaa, quoted in "Say It Loud", Vibez Sim Magazine, Issue Four (2018), page 22

(fandom slang) A Tumblr blog focused on The Sims.


writeblr

I am super new to the twitter writing community so I know only one other writer which is @girlishnovels and I am obsessed with her writeblr as well omg

2019 April 23, Reva K (@ReyaK3), Twitter:

to make a writeblr or to not make a writeblr, that is the question

2021 January 29, bri (@maesvp), Twitter:

here's a collection of my unhinged writing from my (inactive) writeblr

(Internet slang) A Tumblr blog focused on creative writing.


devlog

French: devlog

(Internet, computing) A log (or blog, vlog, etc.) that updates the audience on the development progress of something, usually a video game, website, or app.


figlet

From the name of the program that creates them; derived from "Frank, Ian and Glenn's letters".

2010, Deborah S. Ray, Eric J. Ray, Unix and Linux: Visual QuickStart Guide
If you want to get really fancy with your signature, use a figlet, which is a text representation of letters, as shown in Code Listing 11.5.

(Internet) A text banner with large characters constructed from ASCII art.


Predditor

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Blend of predator (“sexual predator”) + Redditor.

blend

(Internet slang, neologism) An online groomer on Reddit; a child predator who frequents Reddit.


MERN

Introduction to the MERN Stack In this chapter, we will cover the following topics: The MVC architectural pattern Installing and configuring MongoDB Installing Node.js Installing NPM packages Technical requirements You will be required[…]

2018 May 31, Eddy Wilson, MERN Quick Start Guide: Build web applications with MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 7:

“Creating MERN Stack Applications (2020).” DEV Community , https://dev.to/andrewbaisden/creating-mern-stack-applications-20204a44. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021. CSS Tutorial . https://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp. Accessed 28 Jan. 2021.

2021 January 28, Adam Goldfine, Introduction to MERN Web Apps and JavaScript Algorithms, Startup Systems:

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js; a common web application solution stack.


thanks for coming to my TED Talk

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Since 2015. The expression draws a parallel between the speaker's speech and the typical format of a TED Talk – an opinionated monologue on a particular topic.

You might be best friends with your designer/developer after this process is over, but you still want to be able to pay the bill and walk away with your property if anything goes wrong. Your designer should want that for you! OK, rant over. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

2021 May 21, Lori Culwell, Funny You Should Ask: How to Make a Website: The 100% Not Boring Guide to Setting Up Your Website With Wordpress^([sic]) (Funny You Should Ask), Get Creative, Inc.:

(slang, humorous) Sarcastically or self-deprecatingly said at the end of a wordy and often preachy monologue.


goofy ahh

en-adj

goofy ahh (comparative goofier ahh, superlative goofiest ahh)

goofier ahh (comparative)
goofiest ahh (superlative)

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Respelling of goofy-ass representing a pronunciation with elision of the final consonant, which can occur in African-American Vernacular English. Compare bih, shii.

Nah, he a goofy ahh dude, that's why we don't hang out with him.

(Internet slang, African-American Vernacular, humorous) Silly, dumb, foolish.


PWOMS

(text messaging, Internet) Initialism of parents watching over my shoulder.


doorway page

(Internet) A web page that deliberately manipulates search engines through the use of irrelevant terms that will attract visitors, who are then redirected to another page.


meet-me room

(Internet, telecommunications) A place within a co-location centre where telecommunications companies can physically connect to one another and exchange data without incurring local loop fees.


mTLS

(Internet) Initialism of mutual Transport Layer Security.


PNGTuber

A YouTube personality who uses stylized static images edited onto their videos as a substitute for a facecam.


gamer word

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From a now-deleted 2018 tweet defending YouTuber PewDiePie's use of the word nigger during a livestream of the video game PUBG: Battlegrounds, which asserted that he had merely uttered a "gamer word".

“It’s just a gamer word, Arthur. Chill.”

2019 May 3, JackUTS, Twitter, archived from the original on 2018-12-30:

2019 June 3, AGoodOleGhost, “scuse me, i have the riGHT TO SAY GAMER WORDS”, in Reddit, Gamingcirclejerk, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

I submitted video evidence of gamer words from a toxic crew about 3 weeks ago. Offenders GTs and in game audio were both very visible/audible. As of last night, both offenders were still sailing the seas. Reported to both Rare and Xbox. Very frustrating, indeed.

2020 July 2, 37yeti, “Gamer words need to stop!”, in Reddit, Seaofthieves, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

Ohm misunderstands and assumes everything. It's actually incredible.
Moo, 407, and other guys in the group didn't unfollow you bc I accused of some James acct.
They unfollowed you bc you literally went off the rails trying to cancel Marcel for gamer words. Moron.

2021 May 26, I_AM_WILDCAT, Twitter, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:

2022 May 1, Winters1482, “guy threatens to call someone a gamer word over master cheeks”, in Reddit, ShitHaloSays, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:


soy face

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A weird, soundless, open-mouthed excitement that portends nothing good. People have talked about it for years, and called it by many names: "Cuckface," "Nu-Male Smile," and, most enduringly, "Soy Face" (sometimes even "Soylent Grin").

2020 July 2, Miles Klee, “'Soy Face' Is Real, and It's Annoying”, in MEL Magazine:

(Internet slang, derogatory) A facial expression associated with unmasculine and immature men (soy boys), who are often photographed expressing surprise or excitement with their mouth agape.


mainpriv

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the only downside to mainprivs is that people usually wont notice if you follow them i think

oh the way I can talk about anything and everything when I'm priv now I understand why some love having mainprivs

2021 December 11, ria (@latteracha), Twitter:

this account was originally my mainpriv but ive gotten tired of being on priv all the time i want to scream and shout about my love for dmc and trigun

2022 August 23, LAIN (@dogboyism), Twitter:

(Internet slang) A primary social media account that is locked or private.


Imgurian

People who call themselves Imgurians upload, browse, vote and comment on images and animated clips called GIFS.[…]By 2011 when [Alan] Schaaf and the team moved the company to San Francisco, Imgur had gone from being a place that hosted images to a hangout for a passionate community of Imgurians.

2014 February 19, Jessica Guynn, “Imgur hopes selfie shows a Web giant”, in Los Angeles Times, pages B1 and B6:

[Sarah] Schaaf is often described as the queen of the “Imgurians,” as users call themselves, monitoring comments and enforcing community guidelines while “figuring out what is going to be the new joke or meme bubbling up,” she says. After noticing that community members were eager to meet up in person, she organized Camp Imgur last August in Mendocino, California, for 500 Imgurians.

2016 June, “Super Social Media Stars”, in Fast Company, page 57:

In an effort to elicit positive feedback (upvotes) from other Imgurians, commenters create normative comments which reinforce social identity.

2017 July 12, Brent J. Hale, ““+1 for Imgur”: A content analysis of SIDE theory and common voice effects on a hierarchical bidirectionally-voted commenting system”, in Computers in Human Behavior, volume 77, published December 2017, →DOI, pages 220–229:

(Internet) A user of the image sharing app and website Imgur.


this you

'This you' reminds them that a little infographic or a hashtag doesn’t absolve them of past transgressions, and we see through the empty platitudes and insincere expressions of solidarity.

2020 June 3, Jumi Akinfenwa, “'This You?' – How Black Twitter Turned Accountability Into an Art Form”, in VICE:

Barbie, of all things, also got called out a few times for a message of solidarity with the Black community, proving that no brand is immune from the "this you?" meme. Despite its apparent oath to "champion diversity," users brought up receipts that Barbie is, quite literally, a cop.

2020 June 5, Stacey Ritzen, “The 'this you?' meme calls out the hypocrisy of brands and public figures”, in The Daily Dot:

A detailed tweet revealing how a star who just announced #blacklivesmatter also has a history of mistreating her black colleagues is juicy to read. But a "This you?" retweet from a random user is like a simple alley-oop; it just hits differently.

2020 June 9, Aisha Harris, “'This You?' (It Definitely Is)”, in New York Times:

(Internet, Twitter) Used to call out a user's hypocrisy.


built different

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The term was popularized by a July 2020 trend on the video-sharing website TikTok, in which users jokingly claimed to be able to accomplish various improbable tasks as a result of being “built different”.

I learnt that true rock climbers are built different. Their bodies will do things mere humans can't.

1999, Peter Inchbald, “Plato’s Garden: Oxford 1937–39”, in Jack of All Trades and His Family, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Press, published 2013, →ISBN, book II (Speaking from Memory), page 101:

Some people are built different, and kudos to them who are like that, but I'm built different. I always say I'm the most competitive person I know, and look at my wife, she rolling her eyes probably.

2017 July 14, Alysha Tsuji, quoting Chris Paul, “Chris Paul Quoted ‘Talladega Nights’ while Talking about Rockets’ Goal of Winning a Title”, in For the Win, USA Today, archived from the original on 2022-06-25:

Not many coaches in the nation have the ability to turn overlooked recruits into All-Americans, but [Mark] Dantonio is built different.

2018 August 30, Connor Muldowney, “Michigan State Football: 25 Best Players of the Mark Dantonio Era”, in Spartan Avenue, FanSided, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:

We fully know our bodies and what we are risking especially at the professional level. […] He's [Kevin Durant's] built different than the ppl^([sic – meaning people]) saying he shouldn't have played. Maybe that's why they haven’t gotten where he is.

2019 June 12, Des Bieler, quoting Richard Sherman, “Charles Barkley blames the Warriors for Kevin Durant’s injury”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-06-17:

You are built different, sir. Our church is blessed to have such a faithful and committed leader.

2022, Dakota Andekin, “Acknowledgement”, in Prescription for Addiction: An Awakening in America through the Eradication of Addiction, Meadville, Pa.: Christian Faith Publishing, →ISBN:

In the comments section, users recounted their alleged experience with the physical labor of working in an Amazon warehouse. / "My feet was so mfin sore. & the breaks were more like 5mins," claimed a commenter. "I only worked for two days." / "My shoulder still hurts and I haven't worked there since 2020," stated a second. / "I literally had quit on my second day," a further user added. "You built different if you work there."

2022 August 16, Braden Bjella, “‘TF am I Stretching at Work for?’: Amazon Warehouse Worker Says Workers Stretch as Group before Shift, Sparking Debate”, in The Daily Dot, archived from the original on 2022-08-30:

How many shows have truly stuck the landing? Lost's final act cast a long, long shadow over its island shenanigans, Seinfeld's finale felt deliberately frustrating, and even The Sopranos – the gold standard – is talked about for all the wrong reasons because of its cut-to-black ending. Better Call Saul, however, is built different. Not long after the finale aired, fans have rushed to social media to dish out praise for the Breaking Bad spin-off, even going as far as christening it one of the best TV episodes of all time.

2022 August 16, Bradley Russell, “Better Call Saul Viewers React to ‘Perfect’ Finale: ‘An Absolute Masterpiece’”, in GamesRadar+, archived from the original on 2022-08-20:

The 48-year-old [Terrell Owens] not only blew them out of the water, but also clocked an incredible sub-4.40 time in the 40-yard dash. Even among world-class athletes, some people are just built different.

2022 August 25, Zac Al-Khateeb, “Terrell Owens Runs Insane 4.38 40-yard Dash Time – at 48 Years Old”, in Sporting News, archived from the original on 2022-09-01:

(originally African-American Vernacular, idiomatic, slang) Able to do things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual.

erityinen

able to do things which others cannot; extremely talented or unusual


progressive web application

en-noun

progressive web application (plural progressive web applications)

Coined by designer Frances Berriman and Google Chrome engineer Alex Russell in 2015, from the notion that web applications can progressively turn into native-like apps, following the idea of progressive enhancement.

Coordinate term: single-page application

The two things that are needed for a web application to become a progressive web application are a mainfest and a service worker.

2017, Gaurav Saini, Hybrid Mobile Development with Ionic, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 200:

(software, web development) A type of application software delivered through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and WebAssembly.


LinkedIner

LinkedIn is especially useful when you’re looking for a new job — or a new employee, which helps explain its 70-million-strong global membership — because you’re no longer limited to asking your immediate colleagues for referrals. Now you can ask colleagues of colleagues, which greatly expands your reach. LinkedIners can also vouch for one another as references.

2010 July 8, David Pogue, “For Those Facebook Left Behind”, in The New York Times, section B, page 1:

You don’t have to post funny pictures to engage with people here, in fact, LinkedIners probably won’t play with you if you do.

2013, Amy Denim, The Coffee Break Guide to Social Media for Writers: How to Succeed on Social Media and Still Have Time to Write, Denver, Colo.: Coffee Break Publishing, →ISBN, page 101:

LinkedInners fell over themselves to wail that the white man-filled video was “just terrible”, “preposterous” and “shit”. “Who would want to work here?” harrumphed a typical viewer. “Can’t say I’ve seen a video lately with such a total lack of diversity,” said another.

2018 October 21, Pilita Clark, “The big problem with unconscious bias training”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 2018-10-21:

[…] it’s an interesting moment to choose to launch Events. We’ll see if LinkedInners agree.

2019 October 15, Ingrid Lunden, “LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2019-10-16:

HR people, or other executives, as fellow ‘LinkedIners’, you might use this article (or at least the headline title) if you need a “motivator” for their new people;[…].

2022, Paul Gammarano, Insights & Observations, Xlibris, →ISBN:

(Internet) A user of the professional network service LinkedIn.


rangeblock

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(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon) The blocking of access from an entire range of IP addresses.

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


rage farm

en-verb

rage farm (third-person singular simple present rage farms, present participle rage farming, simple past and past participle rage farmed)

rage farms (present singular third-person)
rage farming (participle present)
rage farmed (participle past)
rage farmed (past)

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From rage + farm (systematically manipulating others into giving a particular response). Compare ragebait.

compound

You are being rage farmed. Your angry quote tweet = the goal.

2022 January 7, John Scott-Railton, Twitter:

Mr O'Toole is not a dumb man, which means he must know how bad this argument is. It's just rage farming by — and probably for the benefit of — his social media team. The Conservative Party is increasingly indistinguishable from a facebook group. #cdnpoli

Rage farming is the product of a perfect storm of f***, an unholy mélange of algorithms and anxiety

2022 January 12, Molly Jang-Fast, “Owning the Libs Is the Only GOP Platform: and "rage farming" is their most cynical tactic”, in The Atlantic:

Someone just asked “why do politicians keep trolling on Twitter?” Because their rage-farming is so extraordinarily effective; that’s why.

2022 January 27, @JustinRosenth11, Twitter:

Don't fall for this juvenile rage farming this time

2022 February 7, Steven Monacelli, Twitter:

When we come across something online that is so outrageous that we can't help but respond, we may be falling into the Rage Farming trap...Rage farmers don't care that people hate them...Rage Farming is a manipulative trick that all types of scammers use to go viral. Manipulators use the Read, Anger, Response cycle to rile us up.

Rage farming is a slang term for the political tactic of intentionally provoking political opponents in order to create or increase exposure for one’s group or cause. The tactic is especially associated with conservative and far-right political groups.

2022 March 13, Dictionary.com, Dictionary.com:

Tumblr never left and remains the only Social media site I know of that doesn't feed you algorithmic click farming rage. It's just who you follow ordered by the time they posted.

@thasnarkknight @TheCriticalDri2 Nah I’m pretty sure it's just a meaningless buzzword used by rage farming YouTubers.

I think it's simple. The GOP are successful in the U.S. It's basically tyranny by minority. Our system isn't as flawed. However, culture wars, victimization, white nationalism, rage farming, and hate bring in money and votes. PP/CPC are just following the GOP strategy book.

2022 August 11, @MyNameI89349435, Twitter:

A political scientist told The Tyee he expects aggressive attacks on politicians to increase in Canada as right-wing politicians continue to engage in "rage farming" by advancing false and misleading conspiracy narratives.

2022 August 27, Charles Rusnell, “The Attack on Freeland Sprouts from 'Rage Farming'”, in The Tyee:

This is the problem—well, one of them—with the rage farming that is consuming the modern conservative movement...InfoWars founder Alex Jones was making as much as $800,000 a day peddling conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other forms of rage-farming fertilizer

2022 August 28, Max Fawcett, The National Observer:

It's at the point where it isn't safe for anyone who's not on the far right of the political spectrum. Threats, intimidation, character assassination, lies, & conspiracy theories are encouraged by RW politicians engaging in rage farming. Much of the time, the MSM just ignores it.

2022 August 29, @janetwagner21, Twitter:

cynical politicians and right-wing media trolls continue to rage farm.

2022 September 1, David Moscrop, The Washington Post:

@DuaneBratt @leaderpost Scott Moe, the UCP and Poilievre are copying MAGA rage farming. We know and they know exactly where that leads in both countries

A thought: I'm not a member of any political party, but I am thinking of accumulating amounts to donate to the federal Libs & the AB NDP every time I see an anti-Trudeau hashtag trending, every time @PierrePoilievre or @ABDanielleSmith posts misleading info or rage farming BS,

@DennisKendel Another example of Cons rage farming. I for one am happy that someone is taking seriously water safety. Imagine the outrage if people not on reserves ended up with water boil advisories. Who would get the blame then? MAGA Light attacking federal agencies. Sound familiar?

@roulinski Rage Farming I wonder if the bug idea is Russian or Koch?

(Internet, derogatory) To publish false and misleading content to intentionally increase online interaction.


speedpaint

(Internet) An accelerated screen recording showing the creation of art, particularly digital drawings.


transplain

en-verb

transplain (third-person singular simple present transplains, present participle transplaining, simple past and past participle transplained)

transplains (present singular third-person)
transplaining (participle present)
transplained (participle past)
transplained (past)

When you lead with story instead of education, then it becomes absorbed emotionally and intuitively so you don't really have to explain things. I don't think people respond as well to being transplained.

2015, Rhys Ernst, quoted in Mehera Bonner, "Rhys Ernst on the Pop Culture Trans Movement", Marie Claire, 21 August 2015

The “they” I’m referring to is not transgender people. (Though the bullies will pretend that it is.) I’m referring to the “trans activists” — some sinister, most joyless, and more than a few who don’t even identify as transgender themselves — who delight in “transplaining” to the rest of us the rules of this new, glittering utopia, where spaces must be shared, safeguards dismantled, disagreement decreed to be hate speech, and women must not be allowed to gather to discuss laws that will affect them.

2018 October 1, Lucy Bannerman, “Trans movement has been hijacked by bullies and trolls”, in The Times, UK:

"It's all about the lens to me," Escola continues. "A lot of culture and art is created with the straight audience in mind, gay-splaining and transsplaining to a straight audience. Like, 'We are human. Look, we cry just like regular people! And you're a good person because you cried when we cried.'"

2021, Cole Escola, quoted in Meredith Blake, "Contains Multitudes", Los Angeles Times, 21 January 2021

(colloquial, usually derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues to a cis person (as a trans person or ally), especially in a condescending, heavy-handed, or preachy manner.


GRWM

Coordinate term: GRWUS

Another look reminiscent of Kylie Jenner was created by Carli Bybel. Sticking to products with a mauve, brownish-pink tone, the beauty look is both subdued and glamorous — pretty without being too much of a statement. Bybel looks so gorgeous at the end of this GRWM video that it's impossible not to want to at least try the look for your next night out.

2015 October 1, Melodi Erdogan, “13 Lovely "Get Ready With Me" Videos From YouTube”, in Bustle:

In the same GRWM video, she demonstrated how she uses this powder, emphasizing applying it before bronzer, and making sure to carry the powder all the way down your neck.

2022 September 8, Madison Yauger, “Madison LeCroy Shares the Beauty Staples She 'Never Leaves Town Without'”, in People:

(Internet) Initialism of get ready with me.


GRWM

Coordinate term: GRWUS

They're all-rounders, posting hair tutorials, fashion styling videos, and day-in-the-life vlogs. Their GRWMs and vlogs are addictive because of how accessible they are, watching them go on dates, getting ready for university, going to festivals - it's refreshing, fun, and creative content.

2021 September 24, Chloe Laws, “#TrendingWithTikTok: We chat to Iconicakes, AKA Sara and Avni, the internet's favourite sisters”, in Glamour:

If his nearly five million followers are any indication, Feid is a sensation on TikTok. In a clip, the Colombian artist shared a GRWM (get ready with me), where he suggested fits to dress up as him.

2022 October 26, Jessica Roiz, “7 Last-Minute DIY Costume Ideas to Pay Tribute to Your Favorite Latin Star This Halloween”, in Billboard:

(Internet) A video showing how one gets ready (for the day).


burner account

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Another area that sports organizations need to consider with risk assessment is the emergence of burner accounts (i.e., social media accounts that a person operates under a fake name, which allows them to post things the may not be willing to post from their identified account). NBA player Kevin Durant has admitted to using burner accounts on Twitter to defend himself against criticism (Shiller, 2020).

2021 July 26, Gashaw Abeza, Norman O'reilly, Jimmy Sanderson, Evan Frederick, Social Media In Sport: Theory And Practice (Emerging Issues And Trends In Sport Business), World Scientific, →ISBN, page 332:

(Internet, informal) An anonymous account (typically on a social media website) used (temporarily) for activities that the user does not desire to have tied to their main account.


FYP

His fyp is probably filled with girls twerking.

One of the fun parts of my job is scrolling through my FYP on TikTok and randomly finding someone cool to send a galley to!

2022 April 19, Sophia Stewart, anonymous quotee, “Getting the Word Out”, in Publishers Weekly, volume 269, number 17, →ISSN, page 41:

There is one fashion item, however, that has the opposite effect and could cause a relationship’s downfall — at least according to TikTok. Enter: the “shoe theory.” The theory, which populated FYPs in December, posits that if you gift your S.O. footwear, you will eventually split up.

2023 March 16, Alyssa Lapid, “Everything To Know About The “Shoe Theory” Going Viral On TikTok”, in Bustle:

Is your FYP filled with fashion? Maybe you could fold threads at a thrift shop.

2024 May 14, Claire Hutto, “We found your dream summer job (you're welcome)”, in Girls' Life, volume 30, number 5, →ISSN, pages 62-63:

(social media, TikTok) Initialism of for you page (“a user's home page on TikTok which consists of content automatically selected for that user”)..


TikTokky

en-adj

TikTokky (comparative more TikTokky, superlative most TikTokky)

more TikTokky (comparative)
most TikTokky (superlative)

The moves were a TikTokky blend of semaphore and street dance, busy with content. The teen, whose name is Zoi Lerma, has a large following on the network and her dance percolated around the world, with other celebrated TikTokkers adding their own versions.

2020 November 13, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Benee’s ‘Hey u x’ illustrates the upside of TikTok-dominated pop”, in Financial Times:

Today they look uncannily TikTokky: the self-explanatory Old Man Drinking a Glass of Beer, and the 37-second long The Miller and the Sweep, in which the two title characters bop one another with their respective sacks, creating billowing clouds of black and white dust.

2022 February 25, Robbie Collin, “The golden age of silent films is back – it’s called TikTok”, in The Telegraph:

While Instagram has vacillated as to just how TikToky it will make its interface – essentially a measure of what its users won't launch a Change.org petition to stop – it really hasn't been shy about making adjustments that can keep users fluidly swiping up through an endless video feed, while deprecating photos to the point where I sometimes wonder why I use Instagram at all.

2022 August 8, Lance Ulanoff, “Instagram is about to get photos all wrong (again)”, in TechRadar:

Jessia’s rise to fame is a classic Cinderella story—with a modern, TikTokky twist. Last year was a particularly rough time for the Vancouver-based vocalist. […] Within hours, the clip had surpassed a million views on TikTok.

2022 September 1, Lora Grady, “Canadian pop newcomer Jessia is rising to new heights”, in Maclean's:

(rare) Relating to or characteristic of the video-sharing app TikTok.


email storm

Microsoft is rolling out a new reply-all protection feature for Office 365 and Exchange Online. It’s designed to prevent email storms, when hundreds or thousands of people start replying to an email thread after someone forgot to BCC everyone or a distribution list was misconfigured.

2020 May 10, Tom Warren, “Microsoft now blocks reply-all email storms to end our inbox nightmares”, in The Verge:

(computing) A sudden spike in emails within an email list, usually caused by thousands of individuals sending reply all emails within a short period of time.


reply all storm

en-noun

reply all storm (plural reply all storms)

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Things get really bad when a Reply All storm touches down. That’s when one reply to the entire organization inspires hundreds of people to Reply All with "Please take me off this list" messages, which triggers round after round of "Me too" and "Stop hitting Reply All!" (and "Out of Office" messages, each also going to everyone on the list). The quantity of messages explodes geometrically until the entire outfit is brought to its knees.

2019 January 17, David Pogue, “How to Handle the Dreaded 'Reply All Moment'”, in New York Times:


replyallpocalypse

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Hitting "reply all" on a mass email is generally a bad idea, but a meltdown at the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is the worst reply allpocalypse we’ve ever seen. According to The Guardian, more than 186 million useless emails were sent out, after a technician sent a "test" message to all 1.2 million employees of the NHS.

2016 November 14, Christina Warren, “This Is the Worst Reply Allpocalypse We've Ever Seen”, in Gizmodo:

We’ve now had 20 years of cautionary tales about replyallpocalypses. For the sake of workplace harmony: keep your pointer off the nuclear button.

2017 February 3, Elle Hunt, “When is it appropriate to reply all? Mostly never”, in The Guardian:


e-barrassment

yeah, it's e-barrassment. like e-mail.

2007 April 10, “1st place baby!”, in alt.sports.baseball.atlanta-braves (Usenet):

Email etiquette and the risky reply-all were highlighted as one Australian lawyer made a major email faux pas, leading to his sacking.

2012 March 3, “From the vault: Aussie lawyer's "e-barrassment" over email faux pas”, in Lawyers Weekly, archived from the original on 2022-09-20:

How to prevent 'e-barrassment'.

2015 June 23, Hayley Tsukayama, “Ever send an e-mail you wish you could take back? Now, in Gmail, you can.”, in Washington Post:

You know what the English language needs? A word for the hot, sickening feeling you get when you accidentally hit "Reply All," subsequently broadcasting a private message to a much larger group. Maybe we should call it e-barrassment. Or forwardboding. Or Sents insensibility.

(Internet, informal, neologism) Humiliation as a result of sending an email with embarrassing mistakes.


breakout room

(Internet, video conferencing applications) A subroom of a meeting room, in which certain participants can have discussions that are private or separate from the rest of the conference.


Twitterature

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(Internet slang, literature) Literary use of the microblogging service Twitter, especially in the form of aphorisms, poetry, and fiction.


Twitter novel

(Internet) A novel that was originally posted as a series of tweets on the microblogging service Twitter.


twiction

Call it flash fiction, nanofiction, twitfic, twiction, or a dozen other names. Though the name might not yet be agreed upon, flash fiction tweets are here to stay. The premise is simple: create a whole story with only 140 characters.

2012 February 1, Ben Mitchell-Lewis, The Best Flash Fiction on Twitter, Hyperink Inc, →ISBN:

Popular contemporary cousins include six-word memoirs, twiction, and the blog-born listicle. Nonliterary ancestors can be traced primarily to mid-century visual artists whose works explore themes of appropriation (e.g., Duchamp,[…]

2018 04, Kim Adrian, The Shell Game: Writers Play with Borrowed Forms, U of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:

The latter has made people remark that “the novel by tweet is really a digital extension of flash fiction, an established literary genre 262 TG 2014 263 Other terms most commonly used include twitterature and twiction; an alternative[…]

2018, Christina Maria Huber, Will Spook You For Real: Strategies of inspiring Societal Anxieties, Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, →ISBN, page 111:

(Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; fictional works of Twitterature.


twitfic

twitfic (countable and uncountable, plural twitfics)

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Steve indulges on occasion with a bit of 140character long fiction but he admits, “I start each of mine with the word 'TWITFIC!' to tell people what I'm doing, so I really get 131.” Some of his TwitFic went like this: “I'm from the[…]

2009 June 29, Tee Morris, All a Twitter: A Personal and Professional Guide to Social Networking with Twitter, Que Publishing, →ISBN:

He's had twitfic published in @tweetthemeat, @thaumatrope, and @outshine, among others. Join his twitfic community at twitfic.com. F.I. Goldhaber F.i. Goldhaber has had short stories, novels, poems, features, essays,[…]

2010 October 15, J. S. Graustein, Rose Auslander, On a Narrow Windowsill: Fiction and Poetry Folded Onto Twitter, Folded Word, →ISBN, page 145:

Meanwhile, The Guardian ran Twitfics from twenty-one heavyweights including Jeffrey Archer, Geoff Dyer, and Ian Rankin. “Blaise Pascal didn't tweet and neither did Mark Twain,” began the story by the UK MIllennium Poet and Iowa Workshop[…]

2013 November 14, David Comfort, An Insider's Guide to Publishing, Penguin, →ISBN:

The first is 'twitfic', mentioned by several TV 2.0 participants. As one might imagine, it is a very abbreviated work of fiction spread over a number of tweets. Anne's response pointed to the limitations of Twitter for such a practice:[…]

2017 March 30, Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick, Thomas Poell, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media, SAGE, →ISBN:

Legend has it that Hemingway won a barbet by composing the first Twitfic on an Algonquin bar napkin: “Classified: Baby Goods. For sale, baby shoes, never worn.” The king of brevity already knew what the Memory & Cognition Journal[…]

TwitFic. Because network access on Windows Phone must be performed asynchronously, it takes quite a bit of code to construct the RESTful Web service request properly. Most of the code, however, is repetitive and thus all of the major[…]

2012 June 10, Henry Lee, Eugene Chuvyrov, Beginning Windows Phone App Development, Apress, →ISBN, page 393:

(Internet slang, literature) Fiction hosted on the microblogging site Twitter; twiction.


login wall

(informal, Internet) A website notification that prevents an unregistered visitor from viewing any content until signing up or opening an account.


RIP troll

Furthermore, they illustrated RIP trolls' deeply privileged (not to mention paternalistic) worldview, which the trolls subsequently used to justify what were still often quite destructive behaviors.

2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things, page 84:

He uses trolling techniques to fight back against trolls that he particularly finds malevolent—specifically pedophiles and RIP trolls.

2018, Jill Anne Morris, The Internet as a Game:

(Internet) An Internet troll who leaves deliberately offensive messages on online memorials to the deceased.


ultrabullet chess

(chess, Internet, rare) Alternative form of ultrabullet.


hyperbullet chess

(chess, Internet, rare) Alternative form of hyperbullet.


hyperbullet

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At the tender age of 20, Penguingm1 is already one of the best hyperbullet and ultrabullet chess players in the world.

2020 October 1, Aaron Alford, “Cloud9 signs grandmaster chess player Penguingm1”, in Dot Esports:

Firouzja’s surprise loss to Fedoseev this week was partly attributed to his preference for 1+0 bullet without the one second per move increment. And there are plenty who consider even 1+0 bullet too slow, and prefer to play hyperbullet, 30 seconds, or ultrabullet, 15 seconds for the entire game without increment.

2020 November 6, Leonard Barden, “Chess: Magnus Carlsen showcases his bullet skills with 11 straight wins”, in The Guardian:

(chess, Internet) Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with each side getting 30 seconds to make their moves.


ultrabullet

Nakamura is a deadly performer at time rates ranging from 25-minute rapid right down to online "ultrabullet", where each player has 15 seconds for the entire game.

2021 August 18, “Nakamura unbeaten for 27 games; Sinquefield Cup starts in St Louis”, in Financial Times:

(chess, Internet) Chess played at an extremely fast time control, with each side getting 15 seconds to make their moves.


Nagling

Applications that send small amounts of data infrequently also benefit from disabling Nagling as the network delay is unnecessary in these cases.

2004, Anthony Jones, Jim Ohlund, Lance Olson, Network Programming for the Microsoft .NET Framework, page 322:

(Internet) The use of Nagle's algorithm.


micropatronage

(Internet) An informal means of funding a project by asking a large number of people to make small individual donations.


micropatron

(Internet) A funder in the system of micropatronage.


women ☕

In reference to the 2017 YouTube video "Infomercial: The Pill" [0:13], in which two animated characters say "hmpf, women", then loudly sip their coffee. The phrase women ☕ became an Internet meme around early 2022 on TikTok and Instagram. The term later came to be used as a noun, leading to the back-formation woman ☕.

At the end of the day, "Women ☕" is just a snarkier, more conspicuous way of saying "Woman Moment," another meme that has been used for the same purposes.

[2022 August 10, Philipp Kachalin, “What Does Women ☕ Mean? Coffee Emoji Meme Explained”, in KnowYourMeme:

men be like 'women ☕' and then forget about their vaginal birth. real clownery.

2022 September 22, @bfulaura, X (Twitter), archived from the original on 2023-03-02:

Thank you DeMC for giving us a true "Women☕" moment.

2022 September 25, @Harshalreacts, X (Twitter), archived from the original on 2023-03-02:

Real men don't say "Women ☕"

2022 September 30, @dreeaamie, X (Twitter):

(Internet slang, derogatory, sometimes offensive) Expressing disapproval of the actions of a woman, especially one associated with stereotypically feminine traits.


webcrafter

[…] include an e-mail hyperlink on your home page, such as "Please e-mail any questions or comments to webcrafter@widget.com"

1999, Gene Weisskopf, Microsoft FrontPage 2000: No Experience Required, page 364:

In 1997, a Pagan Webcrafters' Association was developed […]

2013, Lorne L. Dawson, Douglas E. Cowan, Religion Online: Finding Faith on the Internet, page 28:

[…] the webcrafter has a huge collection of potential tools that can be used in creating a page.

2018, Steven Heller, Veronique Vienne, Citizen Designer:

(Internet, rare, dated) A person who designs and creates websites; a web designer.


front page of the Internet

the front page of the Internet (canonical)

Coined in 2005 by Paul Graham, American computer scientist and lecturer, in reference to a brainstormed idea for what would become Reddit.

(Internet) Reddit (an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website).


autopost

en-verb

autopost (third-person singular simple present autoposts, present participle autoposting, simple past and past participle autoposted)

autoposts (present singular third-person)
autoposting (participle present)
autoposted (participle past)
autoposted (past)

FarmVille became notorious, especially in its early days, for its expansionist zeal: the way it used the architecture of Facebook to make itself go viral, autoposting constant status updates on its users’ walls.

2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine:

(transitive, Internet) To post automatically.


subredditor

Blend of subreddit + Redditor or from subreddit + -or.

In 2012, after a series of journalistic outlets began reporting on the forum, Reddit said they would not ban the /creepshot subredditor other similar forums, citing their long-held rule of only stepping in to moderate if content is[…]

2017 August 24, Amber Davisson, Paul Booth, Controversies in Digital Ethics, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 48:

Rest of the series was actually pretty light, but I still feel like I get more enjoyment out of watching two a day max and taking some time in-between to digest” (Poster 4), another subredditor writes, “Just finished ep3.

2019 January 11, Matt Hills, Michele Hilmes, Roberta Pearson, Transatlantic Television Drama: Industries, Programs, and Fans, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 229:

If Wick used Bitcoin, writes one sensible subredditor, “at least he wouldn't have to bury [gold coins] in the floor of his house under fresh concrete.” 3 As more than one viewer has observed, Wick isn't a gold bug—the point of the coins[…]

2022 May 3, Caitlin G. Watt, Stephen Watt, The Worlds of John Wick: The Year's Work at the Continental Hotel, Indiana University Press, →ISBN:

(Internet) A frequenter of a subreddit, often of a specified one.


MEVN

The IOM-Manager was implemented with the MEVN (MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js and Node.js) technology stack [4]. Our protocol entry catalog has two goals: to facilitate data input during surgery and to increase the usefulness of the[…]

2020 July 24, J. Mantas, A. Hasman, M.S. Househ, The Importance of Health Informatics in Public Health during a Pandemic, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 319:

... Express.js, Angular JS and Node.js MERN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, React.js, and Node.js MEVN stack: MongoDB, Express.js, VUE.js, and Node.js Meteor.js: a full-stack framework based on Node.js and supports Angular.js and React.js[…]

2022 April 21, MANU SHARMA, Full Stack Development with MongoDB: Covers Backend, Frontend, APIs, and Mobile App Development using PHP, NodeJS, ExpressJS, Python and React Native, BPB Publications, →ISBN, page 23:

(web development) Acronym of MongoDB, Express.js, Vue.js, Node.js; a common web application solution stack.


Golden Shield

China's Golden Shield has long been a byword for internet censorship.

2010 January 13, Tim Stevens, “China's cyberwar goes beyond Google”, in The Guardian:

Rather than try to shut down the source, the Golden Shield attempts to prevent these sites from being accessible in China.

2017, Jason R. Fritz, “Information Operations”, in China’s Cyber Warfare: The Evolution of Strategic Doctrine, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 81:

In the late 1990s, Fang worked on developing the “Golden Shield” – transformative software that enabled the government to inspect any data being received or sent, and to block destination IP addresses and domain names.

2018 June 29, Elizabeth C Economy, “The great firewall of China: Xi Jinping’s internet shutdown”, in The Guardian:

Great Firewall of China
Great Firewall of China#English


DWeb

Coordinate term: Web3

By dint of having principles at all, DWeb became a smaller tent than Web3.

2022 October 4, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “The Battle for the Soul of the Web”, in The Atlantic:

(Internet) Abbreviation of Decentralized Web.


Reddit

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The website was founded on June 23, 2005, by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian, and the name is a play on words of read it (with read in the past tense).

(Internet) An American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.


Reddit

Reddit (third-person singular simple present Reddits, present participle Redditing, simple past and past participle Reddited)

Reddits (present singular third-person)
Redditing (participle present)
Reddited (participle past)
Reddited (past)

It will be carried forward in other blogs, copied, Digged, Reddited, Stumbledupon and Twitted in no time. Harmful rumors spread and cause people to panic (Hashimoto, Kuboyama, Shirota, & Ieee, 2011) To prove[…]

2017 June 20, Khosrow-Pour, D.B.A., Mehdi, Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 6997:

... that Batcache is meant primarily as a defense against traffic spikes like those that happen when a website is “slashdotted,” “techcrunched,” “reddited,” or linked to by any of the other websites large enough to warrant its own verb.

2019 December 11, Brian Messenlehner, Jason Coleman, Building Web Apps with WordPress: WordPress as an Application Framework, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 404:

Monitoring for heavy spikes in mentions is one way to tell when you're about to be Reddited or Kutchered, giving you time to move popular content into frontended caches, bring up cloud resources, or deploy additional CDN capacity.

2010 June 21, John Allspaw, Jesse Robbins, Web Operations: Keeping the Data On Time, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 184:

(Internet slang, transitive) To mention on the website Reddit.


Reddit

Reddit praised him for doing a simple act of decency.

Hello, Reddit! Mind helping me with this Sudoku problem?

(slang, uncountable) Reddit's users considered collectively; Reddit's userbase, Redditors.

I tried visiting the atheism Reddit; biggest mistake of my life.

I did some snooping and found her Reddit.

(Internet slang, uncommon) A person's profile on Reddit.


rantsona

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(Internet slang) A persona used on a YouTube commentary video that features rants or discussions on controversial topics.


karma whore

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First used around 2000 on the social news website Slashdot.

But the site's system is volatile, and not all original content is well-received. Karma whores know this in their core. Karma whores learn to be clinical and bot-like. Karma whores make nothing themselves and often pull their content from users on other sites without crediting.

2019 May 31, Brian Burlage, “Confessions of a Reddit 'Karma Whore'”, in Vice:

People who aim to accrue karma on reddit are referred to as, even by themselves, as karma-whores.

2020, John R Gallagher, Update Culture and the Afterlife of Digital Writing, page 54:

(Internet slang, Slashdot, Reddit) Someone excessively dedicated to gaining karma (“a score assigned to a user or post on a discussion forum, indicating popularity or perceived value”), often by disagreeable methods such as reposting content or creating fake stories.


karma whore

karma whore (third-person singular simple present karma whores, present participle karma whoring, simple past and past participle karma whored)

karma whores (present singular third-person)
karma whoring (participle present)
karma whored (participle past)
karma whored (past)

Though this might seem to be a performance-contigent reward, there are well-known tricks for posting comments that wil be well-received, even though they contribute little to the conversation, such as resposting popular comments from previous conversations or reciting inside jokes. Such activities earned their own colloquial name "karma whoring."

2012, Robert E. Kraut, Paul Resnick, Sara Kiesler, Building Successful Online Communities, page 57:

But claims of photoshopping and "karma whoring" didn't unmask a troll — instead, it spurred "pussyrammer" to post photographic proof that she was who she claimed to be.

2012 December 27, Neetzan Zimmerman, “Sister of Sandy Hook Shooting Victim Has Hard Time Convincing Reddit of Identity Because Her Username is 'Pussyrammer'”, in Gawker, archived from the original on 2022-10-13:

A rather simple case of Karmawhoring is embodied in posts providing narrative teasers of possible stories. The respective users assure they would be willing to tell more, if only other users would upvote the post in advance.

2014, Annika Richterich, “Karma, precious Karma: 'Karmawhoring' on Reddit and the Front Page's Econometrisation”, in Journal of Peer Production:

Here's the whole story, which scores a one on the Reddit karma-whoring scale. That means I totally believe it because I have also accidentally almost burned down everything in my immediate vicinity while being distracted by the TV or the telphone.

2015 January 6, Mark Shrayber, “Man Sets House on Fire While Trying to Boil His Dildos Clean”, in Jezebel:

(Internet slang, Slashdot, Reddit) To act as a karma whore.


LeftTuber

The strategy captures a dynamic noted by fellow LeftTuber, film critic Lindsay Ellis, in her analysis of the satire in Mel Brooks’ The Producers.

2018 August 24, Katherine Cross, “The Oscar Wilde of YouTube fights the alt-right with decadence and seduction”, in The Verge (news), Vox, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:


LeftTube

Blend of left (“left-wing”) + YouTube, by surface analysis, left + -Tube.

More than most of her contemporaries on “LeftTube,” [Contrapoints] has a style; her editorial signature is an unmistakably ornate flourish.


cissplainer

(LGBTQ, colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) A person who practices or engages in cissplaining.


siteop

Likewise, one might wish to consider the operational skill of siteops. Perhaps the number one condition desired by those participating in the Warez Scene is that law enforcement cannot detect their activity.

2021, Martin Paul Eve, Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy, page 103:

(Internet) A warez site operator; the person in charge of a topsite.


SEOer

search engine optimization
search engine optimization

(Internet) A person who carries out search engine optimization.


memetic warfare

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I believe memetic warfare could be effective in countering Daesh’s recruiting and propaganda efforts and in modern conflict in general, including operations other than war. Trolling, it might be said, is the social media equivalent of guerrilla warfare, and memes are its currency of propaganda.

2016 January 10, Jeff Giesea, “It’s Time To Embrace Memetic Warfare”, in Defence Strategic Communications, volume 1, number 1, →DOI, pages 68–76:

The concept of 'memetic warfare' emerged out of military debates as an extension of informational war and psyops.

2018, Catherine Happer, Andrew Hoskins, William Merrin, editors, Trump’s Media War, Springer, →ISBN, page 219:

Gamergate, "the Fappening" (or Celebgate), and the subsequent Comicsgate are examples of campaigns that deployed active memetic warfare in racialized and gendered ways to attack and drive away a constructed enemy.

2021, Lisa Nakamura, Hanah Stiverson, Kyle Lindsey, Racist Zoombombing, Routledge, →ISBN:

The usage of Internet memes in an effort to achieve geopolitical goals or to enact social change.


go brrr

go brrr (third-person singular simple present goes brrr or go brrr, present participle going brrr, simple past went brrr, past participle gone brrr)

goes brrr (present singular third-person)
go brrr (present singular third-person)
going brrr (participle present)
went brrr (past)
gone brrr (participle past)
except go brrr (rare)

In reference to the "Money Printer Go Brrr" meme, created on March 9, 2020, in which a Boomer Wojak representing the United States Federal Reserve uses a literal money printer (which is making the sound brrr like a traditional printer) to create large amounts of money to counter the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the possibility of increasing inflation. Likely ultimately derived from the line "Money counter go brrr" in the song "No New Friends" by DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, Drake, and Lil Wayne.

The government, in his view, has simply printed too much money—and that "Fed go brrr," is not just funny, but dangerous.

2020 May 12, Jeff John Roberts, “'Fed go brrr': Federal Reserve meme strikes chord with Bitcoin believers”, in Fortune:

(title)

2020 August 21, Matthew Gault, “'Marvel Strike Force' Lootbox Printer Accidentally Goes Brrr”, in VICE:

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2020 December 23, Justine Harper, “2020 Was The Year Bitcoin Funding Went Brrr”, in Bitcoin Magazine:

The ad, which ran for an hour on Friday (January 30) courtesy of digital billboard maker Matei Psatta, shows symbols indicating vastly rising stock prices with the caption "$GME GO BRRR" – alluding to the stock's ticker symbol on the NY Stock Exchange.

2021 January 31, Matthew Neale, “GameStop Redditors buy playful Times Square billboard ad”, in NME:

The multicurrency regime should reduce the RBZ's capacity to print money but we saw how within just a few years of the reintroduction of the Zimdollar, the printers had already gone brrr. Now, the RBZ is trying to mop up the excess local currency in the market that’s driving up inflation.

2022 January 12, Leonard Sengere, “Zimbabwe should brace for economic turbulence as USD set to strengthen – IMF”, in Techzim:

Canada's central bank has been going Brrr, and it’s not because of the frigid winters in Ottawa. Bank of Canada (BoC) data shows that the money supply is still expanding rapidly in October.

2022 January 18, Stephen Punwasi, “Over 1 In 5 Canadian Dollars Created Didn’t Exist Two Years Ago”, in Better Dwelling:

The money printer is about to stop going brrr.

2022 March 16, James Ramsay, “Early Addition: Ranger fans, you really booed the governor on Women's Empowerment Night?”, in Gothamist:

(Internet slang, humorous) To go out of control; to increase or thrive despite opposition.

Covid-19 pandemic
United States Federal Reserve


LNMP

(Internet) Acronym of Linux, Nginx, MySQL, and PHP/Python/Perl


WebMD

WebMD (third-person singular simple present WebMDs, present participle WebMDing, simple past and past participle WebMDed or WebMD'd)

WebMDs (present singular third-person)
WebMDing (participle present)
WebMDed (participle past)
WebMDed (past)
WebMD'd (participle past)
WebMD'd (past)

There had been signs. Dana saw them in 2008, when she was away attending American University. “We would have the same conversation three times in one day,” she recalled. B. also told her she felt a tingling in her face. “I WebMD’d it, and I said, ‘Oh, she has Alzheimer’s.’ ”

2019 January 28, Lavanya Ramanathan, “Lifestyle guru B. Smith has Alzheimer’s. Her husband has a girlfriend. Her fans aren’t having it.”, in The Washington Post:

It’s like being scared of spiders and then constantly scanning every room you enter for spiders and WebMDing “spider bites side effects.” Or freaking out about the state of our democracy and studying the 25th Amendment at 3 a.m.

2020 October 11, Elahe Izadi, “The news is driving you mad. And that’s why you can’t stop devouring it.”, in The Washington Post:

And as you consulted the pediatrician and read child development books and WebMD’d your questions, you became familiar with the general time frame in which to expect many of those new skills to develop.

2021, Lea Ann Garfias, Everything You Need to Know about Homeschooling: A Comprehensive, Easy-to-Use Guide for the Journey from Early Learning through Graduation, Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, page 63:

(transitive) To search for (something) on the WebMD healthcare website.


trust the process

(Internet, informal) One should have faith or be confident that everything will work out as planned.


agendapost

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This is a thread about climate change. Please spam your "Jew Bad" agendaposts elsewhere

2021 May 10, @Schingkenspigg1, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-05-10:

Really learn to read the fucking room, not everything needs to be an agendapost

2021 December 31, @prolapsedbussy, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-12-31:

(Internet slang, sometimes sarcastic) A post made on a lighthearted or non-political online community which promotes an overt political agenda.


webfont

The second approach is to use fonts that were designed for computer use like TTF and include them in the game as a webfont.

2017, Travis Faas, An Introduction to HTML5 Game Development with Phaser.js, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 237:

A webfont is a font that's not pre-installed on the user's computer when browsing a website, but instead the webfont reference is coded in the backend and is downloaded when the user opens the website in a browser.

2017, Marli Ritter, Cara Winterbottom, UX for the Web, Packt Publishing, →ISBN, page 31:

(computing, Internet) A font designed for or used on the Internet.


September that never ended

the September that never ended (canonical)

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It's moot now. September 1993 will go down in net.history as the September that never ended.

1994 January 25, Dave Fischer, “longest USENET thread ever”, in alt.folklore.computers (Usenet):

Eternal September
Eternal September#English

(Internet slang) Synonym of Eternal September


countryball

From country + ball; compare Polandball.

The first countryball to appear was Polandball, a cartoon character drawn in the shape of a ball with the white and red colour schemes of the Polish flag. Polandball wants to go into space but feels threatened by Germany and Russia. Soon other countryballs appeared all in the guise of different national flags. The countryball for the USA, which wears the stars and stripes and cool sunglasses, is egocentric, with no idea of anything that happens outside the USA but always ready to rush […]

2017, Delia Chiaro, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age: Viral Humour, Routledge, →ISBN:

Four days earlier, a group of unidentified students covered nearly the entire tunnel with colorful messages supporting the Hong Kong protests, backing autonomy for Tibet and Taiwan, and condemning the ethnic cleansing of Uighurs in Xinjiang. One section depicted a Taiwan flag beside a countryball of Hong Kong and a flag of East Turkestan, the region from which Uighurs hail.

2019 December 4, Efua Agyare-Kumi, “U of R becomes battleground in China, Hong Kong conflict”, in Rochester City Newspaper:

(originally Internet slang, fandom slang) A country drawn in the Polandball artstyle, in which countries are personified as crudely drawn blobs.


dabloon

From English doubloon, a former Spanish gold coin.

Alexis Bishop, an actor who lives in Orlando, Fla., keeps track of her 174 dabloons on a whiteboard in her office.

2022 November 24, Anna Grace Lee, Callie Holtermann, “What Are ‘Dabloons,’ the Imaginary Currency of TikTok?”, in The New York Times, retrieved 2022-11-25:

This is likely unintentional, stemming from financially literate users building on posts that give away unreasonable quantities of dabloons, but it’s amusingly managed to simulate a real financial disaster without any of its discourse.

2022 November 24, Jess Weatherbed, “Hello traveler…have ye heard about TikTok Dabloons?”, in The Verge, retrieved 2022-11-25:

(Internet slang, neologism) A fictional currency among certain TikTok users, earned and lost by random encounters while scrolling, and associated with pictures of cats.


u'd

(informal, Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of you'd (you had or you would).


MAID

en-noun

MAID (countable and uncountable, plural MAIDs)

(Internet, advertising, countable) Acronym of mobile advertising ID.


wikibreak

(wiki jargon) A period during which a person does not edit or contribute to a wiki, usually in order to focus on other concerns.


Vlogmas

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Only the bravest online celebrities dare to take on Vlogmas. […] Are you ready to give Vlogmas your very own spin? How would the intro to your Christmas countdown look?

2016, Vlog It!: The Yearbook, Scholastic Children’s Books, →ISBN:

What motivated you to open up about your student debt at this point? […] [Aja Dang:] Then I opened up during Vlogmas. Vlogmas is during December, you vlog every single day. There’s not necessarily a rhyme or reason for it, you just do it. You show people your day. My day happened to be trying to pay off my student loan payment for the month.

2018 May 23, Amanda Duberman, “This Influencer Is Using YouTube To Speak Frankly About Student Loan Debt”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 2019-02-14:

I was going to say, when we talk tomorrow, we need to discuss your strategy for Vlogmas.

2019, Sophie Ranald, Out with the Ex, in with the New, Bookouture, →ISBN:

And, on the countdown to Christmas, the couple go one step further – recording a video every single day in December, as part of ‘Vlogmas’.

2022 November 1, “Nadia Sawalha and Mark Adderley”, in Best:

(Internet) A Christmas celebration that involves publishing a vlog every day in December until Christmas.


updoot

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'Thanks for the updoots in hopes of finding her. I'm hoping she didn't cease to exist after I saw her.'

2015, Amanda Fisher, quoted in "My identical stranger: Woman is shocked to find her doppelganger on Instagram", Daily Mail, 11 August 2015

Creating and designing asthetically pleasing maps to share on Reddit for updoots and karma.

2015, anonymous, quoted in Kim Axelsson & Kasper Batalje, "Utforskning i spel och immersionens djup", thesis submitted to Södertörn University, page 34

A third poster provided a more detailed response, writing “Woke up to so many kind words and updoots [upvotes]. Thank you everyone! I’m really touched by the support of this community. You guys are awesome.”

2019, anonymous, quoted in Brent J Hale, "Responding to depression-related Imgur posts: A content analysis of social support and nonbona fide features in user-generated comments", Digital Health, Volume 5 (2019) (link)


updoot

en-verb

updoot (third-person singular simple present updoots, present participle updooting, simple past and past participle updooted)

updoots (present singular third-person)
updooting (participle present)
updooted (participle past)
updooted (past)


e-govern

e-govern (third-person singular simple present e-governs, present participle e-governing, simple past and past participle e-governed)

e-governs (present singular third-person)
e-governing (participle present)
e-governed (participle past)
e-governed (past)

(politics, Internet) To engage in e-governance.


e-champion

Identify e-champions, and an e-minister if possible, for every government department.

2005, Mehdi Khosrowpour, Practicing E-government, page 230:

(Internet) A person responsible for evangelism of Internet use within an organization.


e-minister

(politics, Internet) A minister responsible for e-government policy.


e-envoy

Recommendation 14.2 of this report stated 'the Government should appoint an “e-envoy” with a wider remit than originally proposed.

2004, Stephen Battersby, W. H. Bassett, Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health, page 187:

(UK politics, Internet, historical) The person in charge of the Office of the e-Envoy, which existed from 1999 to 2004 with the purpose of putting all government departments online.


downdoot

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downdoot

downdoot (third-person singular simple present downdoots, present participle downdooting, simple past and past participle downdooted)

downdoots (present singular third-person)
downdooting (participle present)
downdooted (participle past)
downdooted (past)


deez nutz

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license laundering

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(Wikimedia jargon, copyright law) The replacement of the license of a copyrighted creative work with a different license, for which the copyright holder has not given their permission.


hypernote

In the notes at the end of the book I have therefore included the symbol ☞www☜ to indicate a more extensive note, a hypernote, which can be accessed on the Internet. The site to look for is www.righthandlefthand.com.

2002, I. C. McManus, Right Hand, Left Hand, page xvii:

(Internet) An annotation provided in hypertext format.


mh+

(jargon, social media) Initialism of mental health., positive; opposite of mh-


mh-

(jargon, social media) Initialism of mental health., negative; opposite of mh+


Black Twitter

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Black Twitter.

The African-American community on the social media service Twitter.


GCal

Caps have a detailed GCal and five-year plan, and yep, they plan those same organization skills to the bedroom.

2022 December 8, Jake Register, “Everything You Need to Know About Dating a Capricorn Man”, in Cosmopolitan:

Abbreviation of Google Calendar: a time-management and scheduling calendar service developed by Google.


CancerTok

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In the process, she's built a loyal following in a corner of the Internet known as #CancerTok, where millions of users candidly open up every day about their own experiences with the disease.

2022 August 21, Kaitlin Stanford, “Woman Discovers Stage 4 Breast Cancer After Being Told She Was 'Too Young' for a Mammogram”, in mom.com, archived from the original on 2023-03-12:

(Internet slang) The community of cancer patients on TikTok.


transphile

(rare, chiefly Internet, derogatory) A person who has a positive attitude or an attraction towards transgender or transsexual people and/or transness.


edtwt

The recent use of TikTok videos using fatspiration, and to a lesser extent thinspiration, on Twitter (@caloire, 2020) has brought a lot of negative attention to Eating Disorder Twitter (edtwt) and to a lesser extent other pro-ana and eating disorder communities on other platforms. There are those within edtwt who are arguing against TikTok users posting thinspiration and fatspiration content (@dietlix, 2020; @somehowatypical, 2020). However, this continues to be an issue across social media platforms.

2021 August, Kathrin S. Gibson, Thinspiration and Fatspiration on Body Dissatisfaction (thesis), Texas State University, page 7:

Christ, what a shitshow that place is. Full of bullies shamefully spouting harmful tips and this constant sense of superiority coming from all of them. I know we’re all sick but coming back to this sub feels like a breath of fresh air; everyone’s nice, encouraging and willing to call out any harmful toxicity that pops up, while edtwt seems to fester in it.

2022, Remington M. Valdivia, quoting a Redditor, Unmuted: An intersectional approach to Latinx women with eating disorders (thesis), University of Nevada, Reno, page 40:

More recently, thinspo has become a recurring theme on social media platforms. On edtwt, there are multiple accounts dedicated to frequent reblogging of thinspo content such as extreme weight loss progress pics, very thin people in poses that emphasise this like closing their fingers around their upper thighs, thematic groupings like #legs, and photo sets of recognisable thin celebrities such as KPop idols.

2022, Zoe Alderton, Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 65:

For this thesis, I followed one account that was a mixture of pro-ana and media fandom content, which caused my otherwise fandom-oriented timeline to become full of dieting tips, edtwt [Eating Disorder Twitter]^([sic]) memes, and even intra-community arguments.

2023, Taylor Drake, How We Haunt Ourselves: The Pro-Anorexia Fandom Around Laurie Halse Anderson’s Wintergirls (master's thesis), Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia, page 26:

Table 5 illustrates the top 10 keywords and hashtags associated with the classified categories. It enables comparisons between categories’ words and displays the most frequently used hashtags. […] The ED-user category has a significant relation with ED content such as proana, edtwt (twitter warning), body image, skinny, and fatspo.

2023 March, Mohammad Abuhassan, Tarique Anwar, Matthew Fuller-Tyszkiewicz, Hannah K. Jarman, Adrian Shatte, Chengfei Liu, Suku Sukunesan, “Classification of Twitter users with eating disorder engagement: Learning from the biographies”, in Computers in Human Behavior, volume 140, →DOI, article 107519, page 7:

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


Friendster

Count my Friendsters: 48 with 4 pending.

2003 October 1, Nora Koch, “Social networking a mouse click away”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, 175th year, number 123, page E1:

danah boyd, speaking about the social networking site Friendster, shows that users are aware that there is a difference between friends and Friends: “Overheard conversations might include statements such as ‘She’s not my friend, but she’s my Friendster’ and ‘Did you see that Alex is Drew’s Friendster? (boyd 2004).

2004, danah boyd, quoted in 2008, Cliff Landis, “Friending our Users: Social Networking and Reference Services”, in Sarah K. Steiner, M. Leslie Madden, editors, The Desk and Beyond: Next Generation Reference Services, Chicago, Ill.: Association of College and Research Libraries, →ISBN, page 81:

DON’T MESS WITH ME OR MY 346 FRIENDSTERS / Is Friendster more addictive than crack? Shit, yeah (“Can We Still Be Friendsters?” November)! […] Todd Dalton […] “I’d love to give Dave Matthews a makeover to look like a goth singer circa 1983. Only then would I accept him as my Friendster.” Audrey Levy

2004 February, Spin, volume 20, number 2, page 18:

Uma Thurman hugs me good-bye, and we agree to become Friendsters.

2005, Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story, Scribner, →ISBN, page 164:

Do you want to be my Friendster?

2005 April 17, Laura Steele, “Do you want to be my Friendster?”, in South Bend Tribune, page A1:

But once I’d clicked the acceptance button—and found out it was not Hippie but our other, Virginia connection that inspired Posse Pal’s overture—I found myself wondering whether I might find Poster Boy among his Friendsters. […] But when I responded by asking about those mission trips I’d heard about—and mentioning my own excursion to India—Poster Boy fell silent, though he added me to his Friendsters.

2008, Anna Broadway, Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity, Galilee, →ISBN, page 212:

It was Abrams’ original intention to have a website that hosted pages for close friends and family to be able to connect, not as a virtual popularity contest to see who could get the most “Friendsters” (Milian, 2009).

2012, Rachel A. Sauerbier, “Social Networking”, in August E. Grant, Jennifer H[arman] Meadows, editors, Communication Technology Update and Fundamentals, 13th edition, Focal Press, →ISBN, section IV (Networking Technologies), page 276:

(Internet, dated) A friend on the social networking site Friendster.

Most Friendsters aren’t trying to meet anyone they don’t already know; […] Friendsters seem totally comfortable with strangers assuming they cheat on their wives and sketch portraits of unicorns in their free time, but they don’t want anyone to think they watch According to Jim unironically. […] For those unfamiliar with the site, the big draw within the Friendster universe is the testimonial, in which other Friendsters post enthusiastic endorsements of your relative awesomeness.

You also get your own email inbox on the site, as shown in Figure 17-1, which you can use to send notes to other Friendsters. (This is a safer way to meet new people than passing out your email address to online strangers.)

2006, David Pogue, J.D. Biersdorfer, The Internet: The Missing Manual, O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 332:

Friendster also lets users create individual blogs, share photos and video, post to discussion boards, and chat with other Friendsters.

2007, Meredith G. Farkas, Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online, Medford, N.J.: Information Today, →ISBN, page 113:

Most “Friendsters” – as the site’s members were called – had joined the site, in keeping with its name, to validate themselves socially by collecting a maximum number of “friends”.

2008, Matthew Fraser, Soumitra Dutta, Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom: How Online Social Networking Will Transform Your Life, Work and World, Wiley, →ISBN, page 36:

The deal put a Friendster app on the Yahoo! website, promotional placements for Yahoo! products on Friendster, enchaned search results for Friendster user profiles and Friendster Fan Profiles within Yahoo! Search, and the ability of Friendsters to link their accounts on the social network with their Yahoo! accounts.

2010, John K. Waters, The Everything Guide to Social Media: All You Need to Lnow about Participating in Today’s Most Popular Online Communities, Adams Media, →ISBN:

(Internet, dated) A user of the social networking site Friendster.

Consider the hundreds of students from Singapore and Indonesia who create Friendsters for their teachers so that they can write testimonials about them.

2005, danah boyd, “Autistic Social Software”, in Joel Spolsky, editor, The Best Software Writing I, →ISBN, page 42:

You are the profile picture in my Facebook; you are my only friend in my Friendster.

2010, Jasper Flores Aquino (Kuya Jap), Poems for You, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN:

I really, really want to go back in time and recycle my Friendster.

2011 May 19, Amy Bartner, quotee, “the burning question: If you could recycle/redo/reuse anything in this city, what would it be and how would you do it?”, in Metromix (The Indianapolis Star), page 4:

(Internet, dated) An account on the social networking site Friendster.


pre-moderation

"We can't completely lock down creativity," says founder Michael Acton Smith, "But nor can we allow the Wild West. So we use tools like software filtering, pre-moderation and post-moderation and we track every communication on the site."

2010 September 8, Milo Yiannopoulos, “Moshi Monsters is leading the way on child safety”, in The Telegraph:

Facebook does not allow for pre-moderation of comments on pages and comments cannot be turned off, however NSW supreme court justice Stephen Rothman had argued that the media companies could have used a word filter using extremely common words to pre-filter the majority of comments to only be visible to the page owner and that user and their friends.

2020 June 1, Josh Taylor, “Australian media companies face defamation liability for comments on Facebook after court dismisses appeal”, in The Guardian:

(journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments before they appear online, with the goal of preventing the publication of offensive or dangerous material.


fitfluencer

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Blend of fitness + influencer, by surface analysis, fit + -fluencer.

A New Jersey fitfluencer has devised an unconventional way to stay swoll — by having trainers hit him with watermelons, doing underwater situps and performing other unorthodox routines that would put "Rocky" to shame.

2021 May 12, Ben Cost, “Fitfluencer stays ripped by getting hit with watermelons, baseball bats”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-01:

The fitfluencers of the world will try to scare you about heavy weights and tell you you should be afwaid, that very light or bodyweight stuff is the same. It isn't.

2021 June 23, Casey Johnston, “If You're Scared of Lifting Heavy Weights, Here's What to Do”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

For us, the best motivator for hopping on a stairmaster is cute workout clothes. Specifically, we're talking about high-waisted leggings. With their high inseam and suck-you-in fabric, these fitted pants are a fitfluencer favorite.

2022 February 10, Justine Carreon, “25 High-Waisted Leggings To Make You Look And Feel Like A Fitfluencer”, in Elle, archived from the original on 2022-11-21:

Do the same thing every week, just a wee bit heavier. Ignore the "fitfluencers" doing donkey kicks while jumping with 50kg dumbbells.

2022 July 27, Bernadine Jones, “Why women and weights are a healthy fit”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-10-21:

Make a point to follow accounts that focus on finding joy and confidence in movement itself, but be wary of fitfluencers who share before-and-after photos that highlight fat loss, or images, like glistening abs or disembodied legs, that treat body parts like objects that need to be perfected.

2023 May 10, Danielle Friedman, “Fitness Influencers Often Do More Harm Than Good, Research Suggests”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-07:

(social media, neologism) An influencer who primarily creates content related to fitness.


fatfluencer

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Blend of fat + influencer or fatness + influencer, modelled after fitfluencer. By surface analysis, fat + -fluencer.

Another so-called 'fat-fluencer', 34-year-old Leanda Lewis, posts pictures of herself in plus-size fashion on Instagram with the username just_eat_the_doughnut. […] Yet with their raucous trumpeting of anti-body shaming slogans […], fat-fluencers have tapped into a rising societal awareness of the importance of mental health in overall wellbeing.

2019 May 5, Helen Chandler-Wilde, “As another study points to the dangers of obesity, is the game finally up for ’’’’fat-fluencers’’’’?”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-02:

Adele, from Nottingham, tells The Sun: "People call me an obesity time bomb, but I don't care. ¶ "Forget fit-fluencers, I'm a fat-fluencer - I am promoting body positivity. […] "I am showing the world what a real body looks like, free of filters and make-up."

2023 June 28, Alley Einstein, “I'm a fat-fluencer and love going shopping in my micro-bikini… people call me an obesity time bomb but I don't care”, in The Sun, London: News Group Newspapers Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-07-23:

Megan Goldberger, 26, from Cardiff, who boasts 235,000 followers on TikTok and a further 15,600 on Instagram, claims to be the UK's top 'fat-fluencer'.

2023 August 1, Lydia Hawken, “I'm Britain's most successful fat-fluencer and I've earned £30,000 online - haters call me a beached whale but I know I'm healthy”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-11:

No doubt many of these 'fat-fluencers', as they call themselves, are up in arms at Vitality's decision to ban Edmund.

2023 August 2, Nana Akua, “NANA AKUA: Too fat for life insurance? You've no one to blame but yourself... Though the 'body positivity' movement tells us obesity is okay, as a fitness trainer I know how dangerous it is”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-03:

(social media, neologism) An influencer who primarily creates content related to the acceptance of being overweight.


post-moderation

(journalism, Internet) The practice of moderating comments after they appear online, with the goal of removing the publication of offensive or dangerous material while allowing discussions to occur in real time.


-Tok

Luckily, TikTok – more specifically, ‘QueerTok’, stepped in to provide a little bit of joy and education while we were stuck inside. A quick scroll through QueerTok will offer you an abundance of all things digital bisexual culture.

2021 September 22, Alice Broster, “How 'QueerTok' is helping bisexual people overcome internalised biphobia”, in Cosmopolitan:

It’s difficult to find content on TikTok, the short-form video platform, that romanticises personal sacrifice in the name of work. / Instead, “CorporateTok” — a genre that’s loosely organised around hashtags like “corporate” or “work” — showcases young employees who are critical of traditional workplace norms.

2022 June 29, Isabel Berwick, Sophia Smith, “The rise of the ‘slow work’ movement”, in Financial Times:

People on TikTok can scroll past them, but the integrated nature means sponsored posts aren’t immediately registered as such. And for TikTok’s dedicated film-loving community, aka #FilmTok, trailers already pose an interest, with some members co-creating content that shares their reactions to new trailers.

2022 November 28, Annie Lyons, “TikTok’s Showtimes Ad Feature Aims to Accelerate Box-Office Sales”, in Variety:

WellnessTok has done it again. After convincing people to shampoo once monthly and tan with nasal spray, it now has users asking: Is sunscreen bad for you?

2024 June 21, Danielle Sinay, “Is Sunscreen Bad for You? TikTok’s Anti-SPF Movement, Explained”, in Glamour:

Want to smell like a straight-up snack on a budget? Try out one of #PerfumeTok's favorite scents with notes of milk chocolate, creamy vanilla, and soft musks.

2024 October 8, Lauren Gruber, Megan Uy, “We Found Sooo Many Viral TikTok Items on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:

(Internet slang) Combined with a noun or adjective for a specific community of users or a genre of videos on the social media platform TikTok.


StudyTuber

9/10 of the successful StudyTubers are straight-A/A* students.

2019 February, Rosie Wedge, “Studying”, in Student Life, number 25, page 59:

As businesses have realised that there is a huge audience amongst the student body, many of these StudyTubers have become personalities and shot to small but rapidly growing levels of fame as they share their variety of experiences.

2019 October 8, Ellie Robson, “The great rise of ‘studytube’”, in Concrete, number 367, University of East Anglia, page 11:

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

2020 March 31, Jonathan Moules, “How remote study is changing business school life: The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate”, in BusinessDay, volume 19, number 531, page 19:

The lesson here is not that studytubers are terrible influences who intentionally push toxic productivity.

2020 December 3, Basilia Weir, “Studytube: you’re toxic, I’m slippin’ into a panic spiral about my productivity”, in The Glasgow Guardian, number 4, University of Glasgow, page 13:

Many of these authors are StudyTubers who are well known online for giving academic advice.

2021, Jade Bowler, The Only Study Guide You’ll Ever Need, Blink Publishing, →ISBN:

According to The Boar, StudyTubers have emphasized unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as rigorous studying, which cause students to feel pressured about how productive they seem in an academic setting.

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

Alternatively, as one StudyTuber suggests, some viewers find the revision tips and university vlogs made by their peers far more useful than online resources “made by someone who graduated years ago”.

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

Students are keen to learn from each other as highlighted by the rise of Studytubers on YouTube.

2022, Bradley Lightbody, Advancing Learning Within and Beyond the Classroom: Resetting Pedagogy for the Online Era, Routledge, →ISBN:

Critics of StudyTube often use the idea of parasocial relationships to take issue with StudyTubers’ attempts at replacing study partners—particularly their livestreams and lifestyle/Study with Me videos—however, this is a misapplication of the concept.

2022 November, Anna-Marieke Lechner-Scott, “Study Partners for Sale”, in Bossy, 8th edition, ANU Women’s Department, page 55:

A YouTuber whose account focuses on studying and academia.


WDYWT

The fashion concept was uploaded to a Reddit thread entitled "WDYWT" (What Did You Wear Today?) by r/streetwear, a community that welcomes all users to share their fashionable photos without being scorned.

[2019 April 16, Hana Otsuka, “Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital gown turned into a fashion statement, compliments by netizens”, in The Independent Singapore News, archived from the original on 2021-05-12:

(Internet slang, Reddit) Initialism of what did you wear today?.


StudyTok

On StudyTok, people are pretending to study with celebs through fake but impressively realistic video calls.

2021 August 13, Koh Ewe, “I ‘Worked With’ Celebrities To See if It Will Make Me More Productive”, in Vice, archived from the original on 2021-08-13:

Australian former medical student, newly minted doctor, and influencer Sarah Rav, MD, for example—known as the “Queen of StudyTok”—provides entertaining tips and hacks for students on subjects such as “The Best Way to Take Notes for Online Classes” and “The Best Music for Studying.”

2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 54:

Do StudyTok hacks really help?

2022 March 15, Talia Kilot, “Do StudyTok hacks really help?”, in The Concordian, volume 39, number 21, page 6:

We may have fallen down a StudyTok hole and realized that there are so many amazing ways to use these folders, from study journals to note keeping.

2022 August, bazaar staff, “Back to School with Muji: Class is in session”, in bazaar, page 94:

The community of academic and studying-oriented accounts on TikTok.