memeification

en-noun

memeification (countable and uncountable, plural memeifications)

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“Trump Draws” was one of the earliest memeifications of newly-sworn President Trump, capturing the childlike delight that (at first) attended his signing of fancy documents with spiffy pens.

2017 December 27, Michael Andor Brodeur, “The meme class of 2017”, in The Boston Globe:

“Letterboxd has successfully tapped into the Gen Z phenomenon of ‘the memeification of everything’,” explains Rachel Lee of The Digital Fairy, a creative agency specialising in internet and youth culture.

2024 February 29, Jack King, quoting Rachel Lee, “Why everyone you know is suddenly a Letterboxd head”, in GQ:

(Internet) The process of forming an Internet meme out of something.


memelord

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RYAN CHONG Editor & Journalist - Recipe A quirky student who likes food and bubbletea during the day but a punny memelord at night :)

2016 September, The Raven Review, page 3:

“Jesus,” Hannah said, “this memelord in my bio class keeps saying that. Is it from something?” “Oh, yeah, you've got to watch it,” Sebastian said.

2018, Riley Redgate, Final Draft, Abrams, →ISBN:

Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter? [headline]

2021 May 7, Taylor Lorenz, “Elon Musk: Memelord or Meme Lifter?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

Which is why it’s easy to understand the draw, particularly when it’s fed by an army of meme lords on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Telegram, promising that this is the next big opportunity in crypto.

2021 May 21, Nick Bilton, “Inside the Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Shit Coins”, in Vanity Fair:

Yeah, this is what’s known as the Elon Musk memelord thesis, basically. And he is the uber memelord. And he can move things like Dogecoin just by tweeting.

2022 April 29, Ezra Klein, “Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.” (14:17 from the start), in The Ezra Klein Show (podcast), spoken by Felix Salmon:

(Internet slang) A person known for creating or distributing memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).


three-revert rule
three-revert rule#English

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of three-revert rule.


three-revert rule

(Wikimedia jargon) A rule on the English Wikipedia which forbids more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period by an editor.

Wikipedia:Edit warring#The three-revert rule


reddiquette

(Reddit) Proper conduct to be followed on the website Reddit.


untrolled

en-adj

untrolled (comparative more untrolled, superlative most untrolled)

more untrolled (comparative)
most untrolled (superlative)


wildmat

Blend of wildcard + match or Blend of wildcard + format

(Internet) A pattern matching library for matching strings with certain wildcards, used in NNTP. Also refers to its own format.


HPKP

HTTP Public Key Pinning
w:HTTP Public Key Pinning

(Internet) Initialism of HTTP Public Key Pinning.


emojification

/ɪˌməʊd͡ʒɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

I know I am going to enjoy all the emojification extensions and making life harder on my coworkers.

2016, Eric Downey, Practical Swift, page xxi:

[…] to send text, pictures, videos, sound, and location, including bubble and screen effects, emoji tapbacks and full-on emojification, digital touch and handwriting […]

2017, James Perren, Applications of CALL Theory in ESL and EFL Environments, page 46:

The goal of this study is to assess the demand for “emojification” of Turkish cultural symbols and determine the appropriate symbols to use in cultural interaction in Turkey.

2017, Gülcan Şener, G. Motif Atar, “The Transformation of Unique Turkish Cultural Symbols into Emoji: A Study of Cultural Symbols in Digital Communications”, in İstanbul Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi, number 53, page 191:

(Internet) The conversion into an emoji or emojis (e.g. the word smile into 🙂) or the creation of an emoji or emojis from an existing iconography.


wikistorming

Blend of wiki + brainstorming or wiki + storming.

Wikistorming brings knowledge from campus libraries and translates it to the Web.

2014, The War on Learning: Gaining Ground in the Digital University, page 232:

Working collaboratively and creatively in wikistorming sessions, many writers involved with technology, science and feminism have designed a "shared pedagogical activity" to help contribute to Wikipedia.

2015, Wei Zhang, Cheris Kramarae, “Bold Ideas for Creative Social Networking: An Invitational Discussion”, in Handbook of Research on Digital Media and Creative Technologies, →ISBN:

Feb 2016 Wikistorming to raise women artists’ Wikipedia presence with public's help

Dec 2016 Together Apart: FemTechNet and Feminist Online Collectives
Using the concept of “boundary objects,” students participating in FemTechNet have engaged in shared learning projects like “wikistorming,” in which students edit Wikipedia to improve the representation of women and people of color on the site

Two notable assignments were a maker project, in which the students had to build something, and “Wikistorming” in which participants created and revised Wikipedia articles on and about women as well as interrogating the processes and gender bias of Wikipedia editing ("feminist wiki-storming," 2016).

2016, Elizabeth A. Monske, Kristine L. Blair, Handbook of Research on Writing and Composing in the Age of MOOCs, →ISBN:

(Internet) A collaborative effort to inject a certain viewpoint (such as a feminist perspective) into a wiki website.


IANAS

(Internet) Initialism of I am not a scientist.


preprint server

en-noun

preprint server (plural preprint servers)

(Internet, sciences) A website on which preprints are published


content mill

Coordinate term: paper mill

The crux of the hostile narrative was that Demand Media was a “content mill.” An article in Wired magazine actually triggered the drama by comparing Demand Media's system to Henry Ford's production line for cars in the early twentieth century.

2011, Peter Guber, Tell to Win, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 72:

Think of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search result terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.

2015, Zachary Petit, The Essential Guide to Freelance Writing, Penguin, →ISBN:

One night in early 2019, Magana and Alvarado went to a party at a gaudy, largely unfurnished Los Angeles mansion, the sort of place rented by packs of influencers to use as content mills.

2023 October 19, Brendan I. Koerner, “Watch This Guy Work, and You’ll Finally Understand the TikTok Era”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(Internet, authorship) Synonym of content farm


rvv

Vandalism patrolling, though formally neither a project nor a process, is some of the most important ongoing work on ... you are reverting to make sure you're only undoing vandalism, and then add an edit summary: rvv vandalism is common.

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 209:

The consequences of reverting a good-faith edit with a vandalism-reversion tool or "rvv" edit summary are unpredictable, and unlikely to win you friends or trust.

2008, PaulHammond, “The Laws of Unintended Consequences”, in talk.religion.bahai (Usenet), retrieved 2018-08-12:

If so, you need only to put rvv (which stands for revert vandalism) in the edit summary.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, "O'Reilly Media, Inc.", →ISBN, page 95:

For each revision, we analyse its comment for keywords of “vandal” and “rvv” (revert due to vandalism), indicating the occurrence of ...

2013, Jian Pei, Vincent S. Tseng, Longbing Cao, Hiroshi Motoda, Guandong Xu, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: 17th Pacific-Asia Conference, PAKDD 2013, Gold Coast, Australia, April 14-17, 2013, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 271:

In such cases, the edit summaries may merely record 'revert', 'rv' or 'rvv'.

2016, Dan O'Sullivan, Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice?, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

(wiki jargon, chiefly Wikimedia jargon, informal) Initialism of revert vandalism; used in edit summaries to indicate that the editor has reverted another user's vandalism of a page.

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


keyword stuffing

(SEO) The act of filling a website with keywords in the attempt to boost the website's position in online search rankings.


review bomb

The phenomenon of Review Bomb can be seen as a particular case of spam attack where users publish, in a short time span, fake or misleading reviews on specific products, brands or services, with the aim of discrediting or promoting these.

2022, Oscar Bernardes, Vanessa Amorim, António Carrizo Moreira, editors, Handbook of Research on Cross-Disciplinary Uses of Gamification in Organizations, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 340:

(Internet) A deluge of negative user reviews.


review bomb

en-verb

review bomb (third-person singular simple present review bombs, present participle review bombing, simple past and past participle review bombed)

review bombs (present singular third-person)
review bombing (participle present)
review bombed (participle past)
review bombed (past)

For one well-known example, the 2016 remake of Ghostbusters was massively review bombed before the film had even been released, with a good part of the downvoting coming from men who objected to the remake's all-female cast.

2021, Donald A. Barclay, chapter 4, in Disinformation: The Nature of Facts and Lies in the Post-truth Era, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 110:

Lincoln Michel, the author of the sci-fi novel “The Body Scout,” said he fears his books might get review bombed if he tangles with people online.

2023 June 26, Alexandra Alter, Elizabeth A. Harris, “How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It’s Published”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

(Internet) To give something a deluge of negative user reviews.


reply girl

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(Internet, historical) A young woman who published video responses to popular YouTube videos, often wearing suggestive clothing, in order to exploit the site's algorithms and receive large amounts of traffic.


TTFB

(Internet) Initialism of time to first byte: the time that elapses between the client making an HTTP request and receiving the first byte of the response.


hashflag

Blend of hashtag + flag, coined during the 2010 FIFA World Cup by Twitter when national flags were added to the end of three-character national abbreviation hashtags (e.g., #rsa or #jpn)

After posting a tweet about Wombat Strike Six, an upcoming videogame she was excited about, Monique noticed that the hashtag #wombatrevenge had an associated hashflag depicting a small, furious wombat.

Hashflags also don't last forever: Twitter turns them off, when the hashtag stops trending, I guess.

2015 September 28, Alissa Walker, “Twitter's Hashflags Are an Abomination, and They Must Be Stopped”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2018-02-14:

While some hashtags are so specific as to render unlikely the chance that a hashflag will appear out of context (e.g., #turkishairlinesopen2017), there are numerous examples of hashflags being attached to hashtags with multiple meanings and applications.

2018, Tim Highfield, “Emoji hashtags // hashtag emoji: Of platforms, visual affect, and discursive flexibility”, in First Monday, volume 23, number 9, →DOI:

Despite the record-breaking number of #MahsaAmini tweets, the hashtag remains flagless. Hashflags are custom emojis specific to Twitter that help boost a particular hashtag on the platform and draw attention to a movement. By introducing a hashflag, Twitter would also make it less likely that misleadingly similar hashtags for #MahsaAmini will divert attention.

2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times:

(Internet) A non-Unicode pictogram, similar to an emoji, automatically appended to a trending and often branded hashtag in a tweet.


clearnet

The Internet as indexed by search engines, as opposed to the Tor network; the searchable Internet.


clearnet

(Internet, of an address) Being the legitimate front of an illegal website.


Baidu

From Mandarin 百度 (Bǎidù, literally “hundreds of times”).

zh-l

Most of us spend a lot of time using search engines. And the ones we summon most often are Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft Bing, at least in the United States. If you're in China, chances are you search using Baidu.

2014, Edward C. Baig, Bob LeVitus, iPad mini For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 80:

(Internet) A search engine that popularized the company of the same name.


Baidu

en-verb

Baidu (third-person singular simple present Baidus, present participle Baiduing, simple past and past participle Baidued)

Baidus (present singular third-person)
Baiduing (participle present)
Baidued (participle past)
Baidued (past)

To ground my assumption in facts, I “googled” and “baidued” the major Baidu events in 2008 and 2009.

2011, Xiaoli Li, 期待ing: From Globalization to Glocalization (dissertation), Clemson University, page 105:

This generally involves students reading the text for the main idea of the text, consulting print dictionary or online dictionary or Googling /Baiduing (one of the most popular searching engine in China) for difficult words, phrases, expression and sentence structure and figure out how they should be used properly if they can’t find satisfying answers from their print dictionaries.

2012, Chen Yan, Jiang Yuhong, “Integration of ICTs into subject teaching in pre-service English teacher education”, in 2012 International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), IEEE, →DOI, →ISBN:

P.S, did some baiduing, found your cool dictator book

2014 July 11, fjrp2, “Car destroyed by ukrainian artillery.”, in alt.politics.international (Usenet):

From May 6, 2014 I read online English news by Googling news of “Alibaba IPO.” Simultaneously, I read online Chinese news by Baiduing news of “Alibaba IPO.”

2016, Shuwen Li, Ethos as Dwelling: The Construction of Corporate Ethos in an IPO (dissertation), University of Minnesota, page 61:

When I baidued the keywords “剩女/leftover women” and “新华网/Xinhua.net,” a website sponsored by the Chinese government on June 11, 2019, at 11:30a.m., I found numerous reports on the leftover women on the Xinhua net.

2019, Wenjing Liu, The Implications of Science and Technology for Chinese Women (dissertation), Michigan Technological University, →DOI, pages 108–109:

(uncommon, transitive) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Baidu search engine.


TTI

(Internet) Initialism of time to interact: the time that elapses before the client can interact with a web page that is loading


e-moderation

(Internet) The moderation of discussions that take place online.


DNSBL

Domain Name System
Domain Name System#English

(Internet) Initialism of Domain Name System-based blackhole list.


single-serving site

en-noun

single-serving site (plural single-serving sites)

Coined by blogger Jason Kottke in February 2008.

(Internet) A simple website consisting of a single page, with a dedicated domain name, that does only one thing.


newsboard

newsboard (countable and uncountable, plural newsboards)

(countable, Internet) An online discussion forum.


TNEF

w:Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format

(Internet) Initialism of Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format.


FOUT

Coordinate term: FOIT

(web development) Initialism of flash of unstyled text: a brief glimpse of text in the default font before the correct font has loaded.


UDRP

w:Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy

(Internet) Initialism of Uniform Domain-Name Dispute-Resolution Policy.


Wikia

The information found on a wikia is often the most comprehensive and de facto source of fan-authored content around a topic.

2014, Brandon Rhea, Wikia: So Much More Than a Wiki:

Because editorial links between Wikipedia and the Wikias are quite rare, we attempt to connect more strongly the Wikia collections in our study to Wikipedia by employing NEMO, a state-of-the-art Wikipedia-based EDL system.

2017, Joemon M Jose, Claudia Hauff, Ismail Sengor Altıngovde, Advances in Information Retrieval: 39th European Conference:

The battle between the two sub‐fandoms led to some actions within the Wikia, and the change in “the collaborative authorship” (Booth 2010, 92) of the platform. But the Wikia is also and above all a symbol of how well organized the fandom is, […]

2018, Paul Booth, A Companion to Media Fandom and Fan Studies, page 393:

(Internet) A wiki hosted on the wiki farm Wikia.


FANG

The FANG stocks (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google) today are leading the charge, and many of them boast P/Es in the hundreds!

2017, Young Kim, chapter 3, in Surviving the Buy Now, Pay Never Society, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

(economics) Four large technology companies, or (metonymically) their stock: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.


FAANG

FAANG (countable and uncountable, plural FAANGs)

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


Adpocalypse

In response to the uproar, popularly called the “Adpocalypse,” the platform introduced a vague new policy of automated demonetization to appease advertisers, but they drew remarkably wide lines for the AI carrying out these changes.

2017 December 8, Rachel Dunphy, “Can YouTubers Survive the Adpocalypse?”, in Daily Intelligencer:

However, YouTube insists that your content must be “ad friendly” if you want to monetize on it. As of 2019, YouTube has experienced three Adpocalypses, […]

2020, Chandler Wright, Social Media Marketing 2019, page 89:

(Internet slang) A series of events whereby advertisers stopped their marketing campaigns on the video-sharing site YouTube, causing YouTube to introduce stricter guidelines on video monetization.


blogcentric

en-adj

blogcentric (comparative more blogcentric, superlative most blogcentric)

more blogcentric (comparative)
most blogcentric (superlative)

De Vellis began obsessively checking in with Technorati, the blogcentric search engine, to see which bloggers had posted links to his YouTube creation. Within the first 48 hours, the clip had been viewed more than 100,000 times […]

2009, Eric Boehlert, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press:

The class discussed here used a blogcentric curriculum in which students were required to make one class topic–relevant post, one comment to another student's post, and one link to a new information source each week.

2016, Michael Glassman, Educational Psychology and the Internet:


Instagrammable

Instagrammable (comparative more Instagrammable, superlative most Instagrammable)

more Instagrammable (comparative)
most Instagrammable (superlative)

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From Instagram + -able (suffix meaning ‘relevant or suitable to’).

suffix

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

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

Creating instagrammable moments for business through design is paramount in order to stay relevant. [...] [Mark] Birnbaum uses the ‘instagrammable cake’ sold at Catch, as an example of how “items exist solely for the reason of social sharing”.

2017, “Major Hospitality Powerhouses Reveal Key Trends at Annual Boutique Hotel Investment Conference (BLLA) 2017”, in Hery Sudrajat, editor, Hotelier Indonesia, 30th edition, volume XIV, [Indonesia?]: Hoticom Media International, →ISSN, page 31, column 2:

My adult life, and particularly my married life, was quite "blessed" for the first eleven years. It was very pretty, very Instagrammable.

2017, Kate Merrick, “#Blessed”, in And Still She Laughs: Defiant Joy in the Depths of Suffering, Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Books, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 33:

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

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

Burgers are a great source of protein (ignore the grease), as are eggs (which must go some way to enhancing my eggs), plus I had a dollop of guacamole, which is basically unsullied avocado (healthy and Instagrammable).

2018, Emily Phillips, “Cycle 21”, in Trying, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN:

Now, if you're the type of person who quietly agonises over what people might think of your carefully curated, Instagrammable bookshelf, don't worry!

2018, Alfred Tong, “Introduction”, in The Thinking Man's Guide to Life: How to Network, De-stress, Make Friends and Everything in-between, London: Hardie Grant Books, →ISBN:

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

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

[Ben Quilty's] art is characterised not by a heavy morbidity but an ease and facility, a vitality that has seen figurative painting remain important in Australia in a period when it was dismissed as washed-up and conservative while conceptual and Instagrammable installation art had become de rigueur; [...]

2019, Richard Flanagan, “Foreword”, in Ben Quilty, [Melbourne, Vic.]: Lantern, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 23:

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

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

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

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

[Edward] Barnieh watched new cafes all around the world adopt aesthetics that were popular on Instagram. [...] The public was coming to a consensus about what kinds of designs were Instagrammable.

2020 April, Sarah Frier, “The Pursuit of the Insta-worthy”, in No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 168:

(informal) Visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media (specifically on Instagram); photogenic.

instagrammattava

visually attractive or interesting such that it lends itself to being photographed and posted on social media — see also photogenic


xpost

1989 March 24, shabtai, “alt.sex Xpost to soc.culture.jewis”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet):

1990 February 20, Nelson Broat, “A possible solution to the aquaria Xpost problem.”, in news.groups (Usenet):


xpost

en-verb

xpost (third-person singular simple present xposts, present participle xposting, simple past and past participle xposted)

xposts (present singular third-person)
xposting (participle present)
xposted (participle past)
xposted (past)

[still xposting till I hear that .tech is official]

1988 April 1, Peter Schachte, “devices and directories”, in comp.sys.amiga.tech (Usenet):

(Sorry to xpost, but I wanted to give everybody a chance to reply... :-)

1988 May 18, Eric Townsend, “Wanted: new/used 7300/3b1”, in misc.wanted (Usenet):


pink contract

In reference to the colour of SPAM (the meat product).

(Internet) An agreement between a spammer and their ISP, where the spammer pays additional charges in order to be exempted from the provider's terms of service, which would otherwise prohibit spamming.


sessionize

sessionize (third-person singular simple present sessionizes, present participle sessionizing, simple past and past participle sessionized)

sessionizes (present singular third-person)
sessionizing (participle present)
sessionized (participle past)
sessionized (past)

(Internet, transitive) To process data describing individual users' navigation through a website, grouping the data points into sessions that each represent a single user's activity.


citogenesis

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From cite + -o- + -genesis, probably inspired by cytogenesis. Coined by American cartoonist, author and engineer Randall Munroe in 2011 in his webcomic xkcd.

coinage

Relatedly, Wikipedia has been a locus of ‘citogenesis’: “the creation of ‘reliable’ sources through circular reporting” […] In citogenesis, information is added to Wikipedia, which is then picked up in media reports, which are in turn used as ‘independent’ sources to support the original information in Wikipedia.

2018, David Coady, James Chase, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Applied Epistemology, Routledge, →ISBN:

It was at this time that the first cases of “citogenesis”—circular and false reporting originating from Wikipedia—appeared.

2020, Joseph Reagle, Jackie Koerner, editors, Wikipedia @ 20: Stories of an Incomplete Revolution, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 27:

(informal, Wikimedia jargon) A circular form of citation where various sources report each other.


GAN

en-noun

GAN (countable and uncountable, plural GANs)

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of good article nomination.


Runet

From Russian Руне́т (Runɛ́t) or blend of Russian + Internet.

The Russian-language community on the Internet and websites

Ռունետ

the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites


prestitial

(Internet, advertising) Of a webpage, usually carrying advertising: displayed when the user arrives on a site and before they are shown the desired content.


autoprefixer

(Internet) A software tool that adds vendor-specific prefixes to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) code, for maximum compatibility across browsers.


SAPI

(Internet) Initialism of Server Application Programming Interface, an API used to interface with web servers.


AfD

AfD (countable and uncountable, plural AfDs)

When you nominate an article for deletion using the AfD process, you get to a point in the process where you have to give a reason.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 374:

Anyone can discuss AfD nominations by simply going to the main AfD page and adding a signed comment with his or her opinion about whether to keep or delete the article being discussed

2008, P. Ayers, C. Matthews, B. Yates, How Wikipedia Works, San Francisco: No Starch Press, →ISBN, page 223:

After 7 days, AfD discussions are reviewed by an uninvolved user or administrator who attempts to determine the consensus.

2012, J. Schneider, A. Passant, S. Decker, “Deletion discussions in Wikipedia”, in Cliff Lampe, editor, WikiSym '12 (conference proceedings), New York: ACM, →ISBN:

Intra-organizational social capital was measured with the variable Experienced Participant Early Intervention. This variable was created through the identification of the most active participants in the AfDs and whether they contributed within the first 48 hours of the deliberation.

2022 November 16, Elisabeth Joyce, Pinar Oztoruk, Jacqueline C. Pike, “Effective Organizing on the Fly: Social Capital in Temporary Organizations”, in Journal of Copmuter Information Systems, volume 63, number 5, Taylor & Francis, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 1213-1227:

articles for deletion
w:articles for deletion

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of articles for deletion, a process on the English Wikipedia for deleting articles through discussion.


geo-block

en-verb

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

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

(computing, Internet) To deny access to content to users from certain regions or countries using of geolocation software.


Twitch-speak

Twitch-speak was an essential component of a person’s stream and if you wanted to be a successful streamer, you had better learn it.

2017 March 19, Apisit Chatarsa, “The language of Twitch, an understanding of Twitch-speak”, in Medium:

What started out as being an inside joke between the early founders of Justin.tv has effectively turned into a community-building tool — and the language of Twitch. Here's your linguistic primer to Twitch-speak.

2014 August 8, Alex Magdaleno, “'Twitch-speak': A Guide to the Secret Emoji Language of Gamers”, in Mashable:

But there’s a part of the Internet that has been quite excitedly using a secret and in-depth line of emojis, ones that are inscrutable to those who aren’t a part of it. And if you don’t do Twitch-speak, you might just be lost in those part of the woods.

2017 November 30, Apoorva Sripathi, “Can you say it like an emoji can”, in The Hindu:

(Internet) A form of chatspeak used by users of the Twitch video streaming website, especially gamers, characterized by the frequent use of emotes.


cashtag

(Internet, finance, neologism) A kind of hashtag that links to a stock quote.


downthread

(Internet) Later, or hierarchically lower, in a thread of discussion.


gamebreaking

en-adj

gamebreaking (comparative more gamebreaking, superlative most gamebreaking)

more gamebreaking (comparative)
most gamebreaking (superlative)

This essentially transfers one of the Performer's BP to another character. It's not as gamebreaking as some BP gaining exploits, but it's quick and easy to use and has many applications.

2016, GamerGuides.com, Bravely Second: End Layer - Strategy Guide:

(Internet) Who or which breaks a game, rendering it unchallenging by altering its rules or exploiting loopholes or weaknesses.


Conservapedian

(Internet) A person who contributes to the wiki Conservapedia, and shares the site's fundamentalist Christian conservative views.


Wikipedic

Wikipedic (comparative more Wikipedic, superlative most Wikipedic)

more Wikipedic (comparative)
most Wikipedic (superlative)

Adam Grant, who has an encyclopedic—should I say Wikipedic?—knowledge of the field, pointed me to relevant research that I wasn't aware of.

2013, Roger M. Schwarz, Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

Laurence Olivier playing Richard III, thought Holly, who had a Wikipedic knowledge of all sorts of weird stuff beyond the normal ken, that's who he reminds me of.

2014, J S Leitch, Rhaia's Children, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

Completing his habilitation, he became an associate professor and then spent a year at Harvard Law School, undertaking projects on lawyers' workplace enactment and Wikipedic organizational culture.

2016, Dariusz Jemielniak, The Laws of the Knowledge Workplace: Changing Roles and the Meaning of Work in Knowledge-Intensive Environments, Routledge, →ISBN:


Wikipedically

en-adv

Wikipedically (comparative more Wikipedically, superlative most Wikipedically)

more Wikipedically (comparative)
most Wikipedically (superlative)

Wikipedically correct

But, he says, this person may be Wikipedically naïve. “They didn’t quite know what they were getting into — they got a lot of conflict-of-interest notes,” he said.

2008, Noam Cohen, “Don’t Like Palin’s Wikipedia Story? Change It”, in The New York Times:

Columbus named the first island he found San Salvador. Wikipedically, the identity of this island is controversial.

2010, Jerry Friedman, “Seen in the Wild West Indies”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet), retrieved 2019-07-05:

(rare) In a way that pertains to Wikipedia.


fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

Elongated form of fu, a clipping of fuck. The specific elongation length was coined on Reddit in December 2008, in reference to rage comics on 4chan earlier in 2008. 7 "F"s and 12 "U"s are used as a reference to the /r/fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu subreddit or its community. The term is sometimes shortened to f7u12.

"Fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu!" I yell. It hurts my ears.

2009, Ryan Collins, Complicated Weather, →ISBN, page 264:

New semester starting, all I have to say is: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

2011, The East Carolinian, volume 86, number 59, archived from the original on 2023-02-26, page A3:

What, I can't swear while playing video games any more??? #FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU

2013 December 12, James Taylor, Bellarine Times, volume 6, number 50, page 94:

(Internet slang) Elongated form of clipping of fuck.


tagosphere

(Internet, rare) A community that creates and uses tags for informal categorization of content.


DCV

en-noun

DCV (countable and uncountable, plural DCVs)

(Internet, uncountable) Initialism of domain control validation.


GAFAM

(computing) Acronym of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, a group of major computing companies.


link out

en-verb

link out (third-person singular simple present links out, present participle linking out, simple past and past participle linked out)

links out (present singular third-person)
linking out (participle present)
linked out (participle past)
linked out (past)

A brief aside about hoarding PageRank: many people have taken this to an extreme and built sites where they refused to link out to other quality websites, because they feared losing visitors and link juice.

2012, Eric Enge, Stephan Spencer, Jessie Stricchiola, Rand Fishkin, chapter 4, in The Art of SEO, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 111:

(Internet) To link to an external website.


shadow DOM

Document Object Model
Document Object Model

(web development) A portion of a Document Object Model that is not generally accessible and can therefore be used to encapsulate functionality.


huggly

en-adj

huggly (comparative hugglier, superlative huggliest)

hugglier (comparative)
huggliest (superlative)

(Internet, childish) Tending to huggle; tending to hug and snuggle simultaneously.


naked domain

(Internet) A domain name used to serve a website without the use of the traditional www subdomain: e.g. example.com rather than www.example.com.


Wikimedian

The museums asked Wikimedians to provide the institutions with lists of thematic topics that required illustration.

2010, Nina Simon, The Participatory Museum, page 271:

Trusted Wikimedians could apply for one of the many levels of volunteer stewardship, receive administrator rights, and then move on to become “bureaucrats” and eventually “stewards.”

2013, Sotirios Paroutis, Loizos Heracleous, Duncan Angwin, Practicing Strategy: Text and Cases:

To create such a role, an institution works in partnership with an affiliate or a champion to find a Wikimedian editing in a certain topic area that is relevant to the collection, and then the institution invites that Wikimedian to fill the “Visiting Scholar" position.

2018, Merrilee Proffitt, Leveraging Wikipedia: Connecting Communities of Knowledge:


Wikimedian in Residence

en-noun

Wikimedian in Residence (plural Wikimedians in Residence)

To Alice White, Wikimedian in Residence, Wellcome Library, for guidance on finding images, locating Wellcome treasures, and warnings of 'weasel words' and 'peacock terms'.

2018, Gianetta Rands, Women's Voices in Psychiatry: A Collection of Essays, page xi:

Some Wikipedia Visiting Scholars have asked for closer collaboration with their host institutions, creating the stepping-stone for a Wikimedian in Residence type of position.

The students are supported by the University of Edinburgh's 'Wikimedian in residence'; a digital skills trainer employed by the university's information services division in partnership with, and supported by, Wikimedia UK as the nationalchapter of the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.

2019, Anna Comas-Quinn, Ana Beaven, Barbara Sawhill, New case studies of openness in and beyond the language classroom, page 86:

A Wikimedian who holds a visiting scholar position at an educational institution.


nolisting

(Internet) A technique for blocking spam (junk e-mail) by configuring a non-existent server as the primary MX record, so that initial contact always fails. A legitimate sender is likely to try the next server, which should succeed.


or it didn't happen

Derived from pics or it didn't happen, replacing pics with something else that is demanded as proof like links or video.

To paraphrase a popular Internet meme, share your movie or it didn't happen.

2014, Jeff Carlson, iPad and iPhone Video: Film, Edit, and Share the Apple Way, Peachpit Press, →ISBN, page 145:

(Internet, humorous) Unless one can provide the proof that one is requesting, that person has no credibility in the matter.


sadfishing

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Blend of sad + catfishing, implying that this is an exploitative and deceptive online act.

A report […] says that accusations of so-called sadfishing could be further harming already vulnerable children and young people with mental health problems.

2019 October 1, Sally Weale, “Young people who seek support online being accused of ‘sadfishing,’”, in The Guardian:

(Internet slang) The practice of writing about one’s unhappiness or emotional problems on social media, especially in a vague way, in order to attract attention and a sympathetic response.


postroll

(Internet, advertising, chiefly attributive) An advertisement that plays after the main content.


chungus

chungus (countable and uncountable, plural chunguses or chungi)

/ˈt͡ʃʌŋ.ɡəs/

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From chunk. Compare humongous (“extremely large”, adjective) or dingus (“any object or thing; a foolish person”, noun), and chonk. Attested from the late 2010s.

Why did i even open my disgusting chungus eyes this morning

Im a fat disgusting unloveable chungus piece of shit

I thought it couldn't get any more chungus. I was wrong.

my final straw. goodbye. fuck my stupid chungus life.

(Internet slang, humorous, attributive) A nonsense word or placeholder, often used incongruously in self-deprecating or doomer-like speech.

Media Literates™ replying to this and proving the point. Fascism is apparently anything that's not CHUNGUS DEMOCRACY.

"Trad Chungus Russia is going to save America and Europe!"

I swear "Hitler as wholesome chungus ethno-pluralist" is the lamest historical revision ever.

(Internet slang, ironic, attributive) Something that is correct, agreeable to consensus, or without fault, as part of a straw man.


burnination

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Burnination! O'Meara swore as I rolled up to my feet, pain pricking along my ribs where Feather's claws had found flesh.

A minced oath used to express anger, irritation, disappointment, annoyance, contempt, etc.


brain traffic

This smile brought another problem of how to put a new guy at the top of the mast without lowering the mast. Much brain traffic was handled. Many books and journals were consulted including our great amateur Bible, QST

1929, QST - Volume 13, Issues 1-6, page 40:

But the system continues operating. "Brain traffic" is developing. It spreads to the widest range of specialists, from a rank-and-file engineer to a prominent scientist; from an ordinary manager of a plant to an executive of a national corporation.

To tie knowledge management directly to the university's nervous system, Nielsen created a Web site for its employees that acts as a brain traffic controller.

2001, Government Executive - Volume 33, Issues 9-15, page 44:

They don't let themselves get distracted by brain traffic, emails, or interruptions.

2013, Laura Stack, Focusing on Your Work, page 13:

(Internet) Discussion of ideas, especially over the Internet.


galaxy-brain

en-adj

galaxy-brain (comparative more galaxy-brain, superlative most galaxy-brain)

more galaxy-brain (comparative)
most galaxy-brain (superlative)

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From a popular image macro meme in which a series of increasingly absurd or surreal thoughts is paired with images of a human brain expanding and emitting progressively brighter beams of light, thus ironically framing the ideas as too profound for average minds to comprehend.

On the surface, none of this makes sense. Yet it becomes rational once you explore the context—in fact, if you glimpse the bigger picture, the scene crosses the threshold into galaxy-brain logic.

2018 September 20, Barry Thompson, “Heavy Leather Topless Dance Party”, in DigBoston, page 12:

Permatemp, the upcoming album from A. J. Herring's usually one-man band Velma and the Happy Campers, seeks to explore the galaxy-brain realization that the only permanent thing about life is its impermanence.

2019, Natalia Galicza, "For The Record", The Fine Print, Winter 2019, page 10

Hollywood is no stranger to the occasional galaxy-brain take, but this one is pretty out there—as Warner Bros. execs evaluated Todd Phillips’s Joker script back in 2017, they reportedly found themselves in “lively conversations” centered around one jarring question: Does Joker really need to be about, like, the Joker?

2019 October 28, Laura Bradley, “Does Joker Really Have to Be About the Joker? Warner Bros. Execs Reportedly Debated Just That”, in Vanity Fair:

(Internet slang, sarcastic) Appearing to be insightful and profound, but actually absurd, incomprehensible, or nonsensical.


mumfluencer

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

She'd spent the weekend replying to the PRs offering money for branded content, setting up meetings and feverishly researching the 'mumfluencer' thing.

She is a UN Global Ambassador for Gender Equality, writes a column for Mother & Baby magazine, and was recently crowned the Number 1 Mumfluencer in the magazine.

(UK, informal, neologism) A mother who is an influencer on social media, typically using this platform to promote consumer products, offer parenting advice, or document her child's upbringing.


Internet hunt

Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the first internet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job.

2005 March 3, “Virtual adrenalin”, in The Economist:

The next internet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.

2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, in The Telegraph:

During an Internet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow.

2009 January 30, Carrie Haderlie, “Virtual hunting shot down”, in Laramie Boomerang:

The bill also bans hosting an Internet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by an Internet hunt.

2011 February 4, “North Dakota bill aims to prohibit hunting via Internet”, in Park Rapids Enterprise, archived from the original on 2020-06-21:

The practice of hunting animals by controlling a firearm over the Internet.

One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!"

2006 June 4, “From flash mob to lynch mob”, in CNN, archived from the original on 2020-06-21:

Naked shark straddler sparks internet hunt

2017 May 12, Daily Mercury, archived from the original on 2020-06-22:

A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempted doxxing.


DNT

(Internet, advertising) Initialism of Do Not Track.


cissplain

en-verb

cissplain (third-person singular simple present cissplains, present participle cissplaining, simple past and past participle cissplained)

cissplains (present singular third-person)
cissplaining (participle present)
cissplained (participle past)
cissplained (past)

Don’t ask us about transgenderism only to cissplain how we’re still “really” our birth sex and always will be.

2012, Natalie Reed, "How To Ask A Trans Person Questions Without Being Insensitive About It", quoted in Benjamin Zimmer, Jane Solomon, & Charles E. Carson, "Among the New Words", American Speech, Volume 89, Issue 4 (2014), page 480

(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain transgender issues, people or behavior to a trans person (as a cis person) in a condescending manner, presuming the listener’s inferior understanding.


Chromebook

Technically a Chromebook is just a portable computer running Google's Linux-based Chrome OS, but the majority of Chromebooks are light, inexpensive, relatively modest in computing power and storage, and on the small end of the laptop spectrum.

2016, Mike Meyers, CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide:

You can view a complete list of supported Chromebooks, Chromeboxes and Chromebases below: (followed by a list of devices from various manufacturers)

2016 May 19, Dan Graziano, “These are the Chromebooks that support Android apps”, in CNET:

Chrome OS tablets may be the new hotness, but the vast majority of devices that have shipped with Google’s Chrome operating system over the years have been laptops… also known as Chromebooks. But a few years ago we also saw the introduction of a few other categories including Chromeboxes (mini desktop computers), Chromebits (PC-on-a-stick devices), and Chromebases (all-in-one, iMac-like desktops).

2019 February 4, Brad Linder, “Chromebases are still a thing”, in Liliputing:

"Chromebooks, Chromebases, and Chromeboxes automatically manage updates to ensure your device always has the latest software and security features," said Google.

2019 December 19, Marius Nestor, “Chrome OS 79 Adds Media Controls in Lock Screen, Mouse Acceleration Control”, in Softpedia News:

A generic ChromeOS-based network-terminal-style netbook.


e-girl

Coordinate term: e-boy

Instagram is one main social media platform where e-girls post pictures or videos of themselves showing off their outfits and modeling them.

2019 May 20, Annaliese Olivo, “E-girl fashion develops into lifestyle from online jokes”, in The Eagle's Eye, W. Charles Akins High School, page 21:

Let the e-girls put hearts on their faces and dye their hair.

2019 October, Claire Clements, “Claire's Corner: The VSCO Phenomenon”, in The Sidekick, page 9:

The popular 2019 #softgirlchallenge, in which teens edited their videos so they appeared to spontaneously transform from grungy e-girl to glimmering soft girl particularly conveys how lightly Gen Z wears its group affiliations.

2019 December 4, Andrienne Matei, “TikTok's soft girls: could a hyper-cute aesthetic be a symbol of empowerment?”, in The Guardian:

(Internet slang) A female member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok).


JHTML

Hypertext Markup Language
Hypertext Markup Language#English

(programming) Initialism of Java within Hypertext Markup Language.


Spotify

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According to co-founder Daniel Ek, "Spotify" is a mishearing from a name shouted by Martin Lorentzon; they retroactively coined its etymology as a combination of spot + identify.

An online music and audio streaming service founded in 2006 in Stockholm by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.


zatsudan

(Internet, livestreaming) An idle chatting livestream.


elsethread

(Internet) Elsewhere within a thread of discussion (on a mailing list, newsgroup, or forum).


blogola

An element more problematic […] in the move of corporate communications and practices online is the sometimes masked nature of such initiatives, for example through blogola and flogs.

2009, Nico Carpentier, Benjamin De Cleen, Participation and Media Production: Critical Reflections on Content Creation, page 33:

(Internet) A form of payola in which a blogger is given money or other inducements to write favourably about a product or service.


femcel

From fem(ale) + -cel; a relatively new consolidation.

(loosely, Internet, slang, ironic) A woman associated with and/or adjacent to the incel "aesthetic", "vibe", or other connotations.


weird flex, but OK

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In an ACU blog written in 2010, GATA's claim to fame is that they are the "oldest continuously named social club on the ACU campus" (weird flex, but OK).

2018, Lauren Franco, "Pink and green since 1919, ACU's oldest club", The Optimist (Abiline Christian University), 12 October 2018, page 10

To the girl who kept sending snapchats during lecture with her front flash on...weird flex but ok

2018, Courtney, quoted in "Shoutout," The Badger Herald (University of Wisconsin), 13 November 2018, page 21

Pencil – Doing assignments in pen? Weird flex but ok.

2019 September, Abby Paul, “What essential school supply did you forget?”, in The Bridge, University of Alberta, page 15:

Much like when an actor in a play breaks the fourth wall and speaks to the audience, but the other characters on stage, who also witnss the actor speaking and acting, don't understand to whom the actor is actually talking, and in this case neither does the actor himself, as it is an unconscious address. One is left asking, "why are you telling me this or doing this?" Or in more modern lingo, "that's a weird flex, but OK."

2020, Bethany Morris, Chase Kelly O'Gwin, Sebasteinne Grant, Sakenya McDonald, Subjectivity in Psychology in the Era of Social Justice, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet slang) Used to indicate that one finds an action or statement to be showy and strange.


alt.

For the "prefix", the alt.* hierarchy was one of the largest sections of the online discussion system Usenet. In contrast to the "mainstream" hierarchies, such as comp.* which related specifically to computing, alt.* was the "alternative" hierarchy where opinions were shared on a wide range of miscellaneous subjects.

You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total-loser.

1999, "Weird Al" Yankovic (lyrics and music), “It's All About the Pentiums”, in Sean Combs (music), Running with Scissors:

I was trying to say...Danny boy left the room during your hat sentence. He's gone back to alt.elitist.impatient-arrogant-farts-with-nsoh

1999 December 21, Christiana, “Scripts available anywhere?”, in alt.fan.eddie-izzard (Usenet):

If you're only interested in a socialist love-in, perhaps you should go to alt.bliss.ninnies?

2001 October 15, Rev. J. Thaddius, “The War Against Dissent (Simon Haupt)”, in alt.anarchism (Usenet):

Indicates a newsgroup, as used in fictional or hypothetical newsgroup names.


progressive enhancement

Over the past few years, progressive enhancement has been quietly adopted by some of the biggest and best sites on the web, precisely because it allows them to reach the widest possible audience.

2010, Todd Parker, Scott Jehl, Maggie Costello Wachs, Patty Toland, Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web that Works for Everyone, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

(web development) A philosophy where a website's functionality is enhanced by JavaScript, rather than wholly reliant on JavaScript.


server-side rendering

en-noun

server-side rendering (plural server-side renderings)

When we talk about server-side rendering of websites, we are generally referring to an application or website that uses a programming language that runs on a server. On this server, the web pages are created (rendered) and the output of that rendering (the HTML) is sent to the browser, where it can be displayed directly.

2018, Bram Borggreve, Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular, Packt Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 2:

(web development) A system in which the content of a website is generated on the server, before being sent to the browser.


single-page application

single-page application (plural single-page applications)

Coordinate term: progressive web application

The Single Page Application template sets you up for an application that's primarily driven via JavaScript requests to Web API services rather than the traditional web page request / response cycle.

2014, Jon Galloway, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen, David Matson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 5, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 20:

(web development) A website where new content is shown by dynamically replacing existing content in the web page rather than navigating to a different URL.


bone apple tea

From a food photo uploaded on Facebook by Dunta Pickett on 1 August 2016, which was captioned “My BIRTHDAY dinner to myself...bone Apple tea.” It was screenshotted and posted on the Worldstar Hip Hop Facebook page and spread as a meme in a few days.

Whoever gets this car next is going to be pissed because the steering wheel is covered in oily dressing. Bone apple tea!

2016 November, Jesse Standing, “Review: Abandoned Salad”, in The Moot Times, University of Calgary, page 10, column 4:

He takes the other spoon, and we each dig out a bite of this gunk. I’m breathing through my mouth so I don’t have to smell so much of it, but all that means is I’m starting to taste it on the air instead. / “Ready?” Perry asks. / “Sure,” I say. “Bone apple tea.” / Perry laughs, and I hope there’s nothing called a bone apple that can be made into a tea, I’m just trying to be smartass while I can still talk without retching.

2017, L.A. Fields, “King of Fruits”, in Steve Berman, editor, His Seed: An Arboretum of Erotica, Unzipped Books, →ISBN, page 93:

“Bone apple tea,” they say to each other as they grill chicken and saute broccoli.

2022 April 1, Good Boy, “The goodest boy”, in The Bull, volume 97, Searcy, Ark.: Harding University, page 4A, column 3:


KF

Everyone KF targets is “crazy” to them, and everything KFers find funny or worthy of disdain is justified as evidence of this perceived mental illness.

2016 July 19, Margaret Pless, “Kiwi Farms, the Web’s Biggest Community of Stalkers”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-05-28:

Cloudflare's position on KF is not tenable and I believe that their leadership, employees, shareholders and the rest of the world would be better off if they proactively recognized that.

2022 September 3, Joseph Menn, Taylor Lorenz, quoting Alex Stamos, “Cloudflare drops KiwiFarms”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-08:

But others are definitely not welcoming of Watkins' involvement. "Jim, as in Jim Watkins? If there's one surefire way to kill KF, it would be him taking over and running it into the ground lol," one user wrote.

2022 September 16, David Gilbert, anonymous quotee, “QAnon Celebrity and 8kun Owner Jim Watkins Claims He Bought Kiwi Farms”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2024-03-05:

The idea that I'm responsible for her [Sorrenti's] thread being posted on KF [Kiwi Farms] is unbelievable to me.

2022 October 12, Morgan Sung, quoting Steven Bonnell, “Trans Twitch streamer Keffals is ready to return home”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2024-05-16:


VTuber

From Japanese VTuber, from English virtual + YouTuber.

virtual YouTuber
virtual YouTuber#English


stim board

(Internet) A digital mood board composed of video fragments (usually in the form of animated gifs) conveying pleasant or satisfying physical sensation.


TikToker

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“TikTok has brought a younger group of creators. That energy is kind of pushing on a lot of older creators,” said Josh Sadowski, 19, a TikToker with nearly four million followers who lived in another TikTok collab house.

2020 January 3, Taylor Lorenz, “Hype House and the Los Angeles TikTok Mansion Gold Rush”, in The New York Times (newspaper), retrieved 2020-04-06:

When a young TikToker called @idrinkurmilkshake winkingly identified herself as a member of the “Pfizer Gang,” she kicked off a joking rivalry that tore ebulliently through the internet.

2021 April 27, Amanda Hess, “Inject the Vaccine Fan Fiction Directly Into My Veins”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

From arguing in the comments section over the best way to work your glutes to critiquing someone's deadlift skills, there's always some kind of disagreement brewing between gym-going TikTokers.

2022 January 14, Jade Biggs, “This TikTok of a woman squatting in the gym is dividing people”, in Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-08-04:

Here TikTokers are finding that they've failed the 'unspoken rizz' test with hilarious outcomes.

2022 May 20, Dave Deiley, “What does "unspoken rizz" mean on TikTok?”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2022-12-02:

(social media) A user of the video-sharing app TikTok, especially one who creates videos.


TikTok

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Instaverse

In your continuous effort to be the king or queen of twitterverse and instaverse, you network with the people who are popular on the sites and request that they tweet “hey_____ is cool and he needs some followers! Go follow him!”

2013 February 28, Chantelle Simmons, “Somebody has to say it: Ten signs of a social media attention whore”, in The Yard, volume 1, number 3, Charleston, SC: College of Charleston, page 30:

(Internet, informal) The world of users of the Instagram online photo-sharing service.


self-closing

(web development, of an HTML or XML tag) In the form of (for example) {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|

In the form of (for example) {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|
|inline="True"|lang="html"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}} or {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|
|inline="True"|lang="html"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}}, without containing any content, as opposed to (for example) {{#tag:syntaxhighlight|text|inline="True"|lang="html"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}}, which is composed of an opening ({{#tag:syntaxhighlight||inline="True"|lang="html"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}}) and a closing ({{#tag:syntaxhighlight||inline="True"|lang="html"|style="white-space:pre-wrap;"}}) tag.


piped link

In that case, you can link to that section with a piped link, and the link doesn't have to be at the beginning of the entry.

2008, John Broughton, Wikipedia: The Missing Manual, page 316:

(MediaWiki) An internal link with wikitext that creates hyperlinked text displayed on a page that is different from the title of the page to which the text links.


oh worm

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Humorous misspelling of "Oh, word?" as it appeared in an advice animal of late 2016. Spread through Tumblr as an Internet meme through early 2017.

I woke up today and I just don't feel like doing anything.
Oh worm. I know what you mean.

(Internet slang, humorous) Yes; I understand or can relate.


reply guy

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Since the release of his new song “Yummy”, Bieber has been needier on social media than that reply guy who keeps popping up in your DMs with “you up?” messages.

2020 February 5, Annie Lord, “Why Justin Bieber’s TikTok campaign for ‘Yummy’ is so embarrassing”, in The Independent:

This is a wonderful feature for reply guys and other less aggressive individuals, as they will never know you've muted them but you will never have to see their content again, unless you choose to.

2022, Nina Jankowicz, How to Be a Woman Online: Surviving Abuse and Harassment, and How to Fight Back, page 45:

I got trolled. As a female, we're the Twitter reply guys' punching bags. They don't like women in a position of agency.

2022, Beth Nakamura, quoted in Paul Martin Lester, Stephanie A. Martin, & Martin Smith-Rodden, Visual Ethics: A Guide for Photographers, Journalists, and Media Makers, unnumbered page

(Internet, informal, derogatory) A male commenter who leaves frequent, unsolicited, and often inappropriate replies on a woman's social media posts.

I joke that my mother is my Twitter “reply guy.” Anytime I tweet, well, anything, I can expect a response in record time.

2019 October 16, Annabelle Williams, “Letter from the Editor”, in 34th Street Magazine, page 2:

They use Google alerts to stay on top of Olympic-related topics, monitoring key phrases. They are known to clap back at politicians, Olympic honchos, and journalists whose work they wish to critique (or occasionally high-five). They'll also do “reply-guy” interventions, sliding into people's feeds to drum up conversation.

2021, Jules Boykoff, NOlympians: Inside the Fight Against Capitalist Mega-Sports in Los Angeles, Tokyo and Beyond, unnumbered page:

There is no deeper hive of scum and villainy than Twitter. But if you're already on there, worry about your own feed. Worry about being accurate and truthful. Don't be a reply guy. Just do your own feed. Ted Cruz doesn't need to know you hate him. He knows.

2022 December, Monica Elkinton, “Convention speaker advocates larger Supreme Court”, in The Alaska Bar Rag, page 14:

(Internet, informal, derogatory) Any person who leaves such replies on someone's social media posts.


reply guy

en-verb

reply guy (third-person singular simple present reply guys, present participle reply guying, simple past and past participle reply guyed)

reply guys (present singular third-person)
reply guying (participle present)
reply guyed (participle past)
reply guyed (past)

(Internet, informal, derogatory) To reply to a social media post as a reply guy.


mukbanger

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While for some mukbangers, the ASMR effect is part of the overall mukbang experience, ASMR videos are a whole world unto themselves with a wide range of variants […]

2020, Tania Lewis, Digital Food: From Paddock to Platform:

Indonesian mukbanger Kim Thai has partnered rather appropriately with digestion aid Pepto-Bismol, while the American star Nikocado Avocado advertises the computer game Cooking Diary.

2020, Noreena Hertz, The Lonely Century, Hachette, →ISBN:

Some cross-cultural studies on mukbang also report that its global spread can be understood through its sexual aspect, as it facilitates “a sexualized gaze to attractive mukbangers while they are in a somewhat private and vulnerable state […]

2020, Hyesu Park, Understanding Hallyu: The Korean Wave Through Literature, Webtoon, and Mukbang, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

(social media) A person who creates and publishes mukbang videos.


play-by-mail

Heimito Gerhardt, a fan of gaming by mail, presented Conrad and me with our own play-by-mail kits as he accompanied us to the bus station. It so happened that Heimito corresponded with Rex Douglas (one of Conrad's idols), the great American gamer and star writer for one of the most prestigious of the specialized journals, The General.

2011, Roberto Bolaño, translated by Natasha Wimmer, The Third Reich, New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 25:

(games) Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through postal mail or email.


Molex to SATA, lose all your data

(computer hardware, Internet) Using a Molex-to-SATA adapter to power a storage device may lead to loss of data, as a poorly designed and unreliable connector may cause damage by failing in an unsafe manner.


Witchblr

But what ties Witchblr and the Cult of Kek together, despite their diametrically opposed viewpoints, is that each is dissatisfied with the real world and their inability to change those circumstances, and thus each has created its own sheltering cosmology.

2018 April 3, Emma Grey Ellis, “Witches, Frog-Gods, and the Deepening Schism of Internet Religions”, in Wired:

Witchblr is a mixture of fashion and wellness trends, spiritual beliefs and feminist politics.

2018 November, Jen Tombs, “Be Witched”, in Study Breaks, volume 30, number 8, page 19:

Granted, most millennial denizens of “Witchblr” are more likely to cleanse their homes with sage, say, or practice mindfulness meditation than to cast a curse on Republican lawmakers.

2019 June 7, Tara Isabella Burton, “The Rise of Progressive Occultism”, in The American Interest, volume 15, number 1:

(Internet slang) The community of witches and occult-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


e-boy

Coordinate term: e-girl

E-boys wear baggy sweaters, beanies and sometimes face piercings.

2019 April 5, Maddy Garcia, “Rise of the E-Girl: internet's latest trend”, in The Phoenix, Fremont High School, page 5:

The e-boy is her playful, middle-parted counterpart. Ears pierced. Nails painted. He makes us question what we once found so appealing about Zac Efron's eight-pack and Channing Tatum's gorilla-like shoulders.

2020 February 20, Grace Tucker, “E-boys and E-girls: a new, nonchalant counterculture”, in The Michigan Daily, University of Michigan, page 6:

Whilst the dress is not vastly different between e-girls and e-boys, the content they put out seems to be.

2020, Francesca Ionescu, "E Girl And E Boy Phenomena", Q3 (Cardiff University), Issue 9, 29 April 2020, page 2

(Internet slang) A male member of the e-girl/e-boy subculture which emerged in the late 2010s, characterized by emo- and grunge-inspired fashion, and by heavy use of social media platforms (notably TikTok).


soft paywall

Soft paywalls retain more users than hard paywalls - by a big margin.

(Internet) A paywall that allows limited free access, such as by allowing each user to read a certain number of articles per month without paying.


bulletproof host

en-noun

bulletproof host (plural bulletproof hosts)

(Internet) A company offering bulletproof hosting.


bulletproof hosting

(Internet) A web hosting service that allows customers to publish all kinds of material, including spam, pornography, etc. that may be forbidden on other services.


hard paywall

(Internet) A paywall that hides all content from unregistered or nonpaying users.


memey

en-adj

memey (comparative memier, superlative memiest)

memier (comparative)
memiest (superlative)

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Today his view is essentially that ROFL is just another element of the information cycle: he is the founder of BuzzFeed.com, a news-and-entertainment aggregator that’s partly devoted to these new sources of memey entertainment.

2010 July 16, Rob Walker, “When Funny Goes Viral”, in New York Times Magazine, →ISSN:

It’s true that things that seem very zeitgeisty at the moment may be incomprehensible to future generations,” he said. That’s particularly true these days, as each new word seems more memey than the last.

2015 January 16, Jessica Bennett, “At the Super Bowl of Linguistics, May the Best Word Win”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

While you’ll find a giddy variety of sounds on TikTok – ranging from the classic ('Paint It Black' by the Rolling Stones is currently trending) to the extremely memey (‘Be Gone Thot’ by an alien influencer called Lil Mayo) – the most consistently trending sounds tend to err towards the childlike.

2019 October 31, Emma Madden, “TikTok has broken rap music”, in Wired UK, →ISSN:

(informal) Characterized by or relating to memes.


tbf

(Internet, text messaging) Alternative letter-case form of TBF


memery

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However, I would like to suggest that option 5, MORE MEMERY, would make alt.religion.kibology a better place. EVERYONE, MAKE UP MORE MEMES, WE MUST INCREASE OUR ROBUST EXPORTS OF NEOLOGIC MEMERY!

1998 November 9, James Kibo Parry, “what do we want poll”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):

For example, “Memery: imitation, memory, and internet culture” at Massachusetts Museum of Modern Art in North ... A very comprehensive list of Ryan Gosling memes can be seen at http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hey_girl_i_know_ ...

2014, Christopher Schaberg, Robert Bennett, Deconstructing Brad Pitt, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 133:

"Figuring out why the internet grew attached to SpongeBob is like trying to figure out why the internet likes (or dislikes) anything. It just happens. But something about Hillenburg's show proved irresistible to memery. The show’s characters—and its titular hero specifically—are expressive enough to communicate a mood in a single frame. The show's wholesome, if slyly subversive, tone makes recontextualizing those faces all the funnier."

2018 November 27, tmc...@gmail.com, “SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg's legacy lives on in countless internet memes”, in alt.tv.nickelodeon (Usenet):

(Internet slang) The distribution of memes (usually humorous material copied and circulated online).


clogosphere

From clog + -o- + -sphere, by analogy with blogosphere.

(blogging, slang, derogatory, rare) The totality of bloggers advocating forms of pseudoscience, the paranormal, and conspiracy theories.


Danth's Law

(Internet, humorous) An adage that states that a person who insists that they have won an Internet argument has probably very badly lost.


gongbang

Transliteration of Korean 공방 (gongbang), short for 공부방송, literally "study broadcast".

(Internet) An online video broadcast in which a person studies while interacting with their audience.


wumao

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 五毛 (wǔmáo), a clipping of 五毛黨 /五毛党 (wǔmáodǎng), lit. "the 5 dime party", in reference to allegations that the Chinese government employs online shills paid 1/2 yuan RMB per online post.

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

An alleged Internet user who is paid by the authorities of the People's Republic of China to spread propaganda and disinformation on their behalf.


'gram

... iconic travel experiences; they learned to use filters to make the scenes Don't do it for the 'gram: Social media and traveling.

2019, A.M. Bristow, Traveling More & Traveling Better: A GnomeTrotting Guide, →ISBN:

The ambience was overrated at the party / I want to run away before it's even started / I look at my feet, then I look for the door (Oh my God) / Can't find my friends, […] / But I don't wanna follow you on the 'gram / I don't wanna listen to your band / I don't know why I haven't left yet / Don't want none of this

2022, Teasdale Rhian Louise (lyrics and music), “Angelica”, in Wet Leg, performed by Wet Leg, Domino, →OCLC:


'gram

en-verb

'gram (third-person singular simple present 'grams, present participle 'gramming, simple past and past participle 'grammed)

'grams (present singular third-person)
'gramming (participle present)
'grammed (participle past)
'grammed (past)

Twitter, Snapchat, and 'gramming aren't the only things to set today's top names apart from the supermodels of decades past: An enterprising attitude toward the future isn't an exception but the norm.

2015 March 30, Leah Melby Clinton, “Gigi Hadid on Life After Modeling: "It's Not Just OK Anymore to Model Until You're 25 and Then Stop and Be a Housewife"”, in Glamour:

With restaurants closed and travel discouraged, we asked what he’s ‘gramming, how he’s getting by, and how influencers will survive.

2020 April 2, Jessica Sidman, “Food Influencers Are Still Gramming, Pandemic or Not”, in Washingtonian:


BLP

Ariel added a note to Keith's article on Wikipedia, but strictly speaking, her note isn't properly cited, especially for a BLP page. (Silly perhaps, but Wiki isn't really a first-person news reporting site.) There's more on the Talk page.

2007 February 3, Android Cat, “Re: Keith Henson”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):

w:Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons

(Wikimedia jargon) Initialism of biography of a living person.


taxonavigation

From taxo- + navigation. Coined on Wikispecies, which was launched in 2004.

Taxonavigation in design and architecture, much like the contemporary preoccupation with tagging, labeling, blogging, and wikiing has become integral to praxis and pedagogy.

2012, Liat Margolis, “Encoding Digital and Analogue Taxonavigation”, in Thomas Schröpfer, editor, Material Design: Informing Architecture by Materiality, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 148:

A good example for a taxonomy is the Wikispecies project, which aims at creating a directory of species. In the “Taxonavigation” the path in the taxonomy leading to the species is depicted.

2014, S Arroyo, K Siorpaes, “ONTOLOGIES AND ONTOLOGY LANGUAGES”, in Handbook of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, World Scientific, page 145:

Taxonavigation of microalgae
Chlorella vulgaris belongs to Chlorophyta (green algae) […] they were subjected to classification by dividing under main taxonomic groups based on their pigmentation.

2019 September, G. Panduranga Murthy, Rajesh Kumar, “Optimized production of biodiesel by fresh water algae oils derived from Chlorella wild stuff and performance characteristics of engine system by employing integration of chemical sciences and engineering technologies”, in NISCAIR-CSIR, India:

(taxonomy) The navigation of a directory of species or other taxonomic entities.


memeable

en-adj

memeable (comparative more memeable, superlative most memeable)

more memeable (comparative)
most memeable (superlative)

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I fear that a good number of viewers are going to watch the new Twin Peaks eagerly anticipating the charming, consumable, GIF-able, and meme-able elements: the comedy, the flirtations, the quizzical reaction shots, and dry banter; the ritual consumption of coffee, donuts, and pie; […]

2017 May 19, Ubiquitous, “Why Twin Peaks Is Not the Series We’ve Convinced Ourselves It Was”, in alt.tv.twin-peaks (Usenet):

Morwenna enjoying some Monster Munch in a very memeable Emilia Wickstead dress. [image caption]

2019 June 16, Morwenna Ferrier, “What does it meme? The rise and rise of the fashion viral”, in The Guardian:

(Internet slang) Able to be turned into a meme; having the potential to become a meme.


cyberlibel

The news website Rappler, Ressa, its executive editor, and former researcher and writer Reynaldo Santos Jr were accused of cyberlibel over a story that alleged links between a businessman and a top judge.

2020 June 15, Maria Ressa, “Journalist Maria Ressa found guilty of 'cyberlibel' in Philippines”, in The Guardian:

(Philippines, Internet, law) The act or crime of making a defamatory statement (libel) about someone on the Internet; such a statement.


fail whale

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The fail whale originated on Twitter; the term was coined by web designer Jen Simmons in 2007 in a tweet.

coinage

(Internet slang) An image of a whale that formerly accompanied certain error messages on the Twitter microblogging website.


bofa

"Hey, do you know what bofa is?" "What's bofa?" "Bofa deez nuts in your mouth!"

(chiefly Internet, humorous, typically considered vulgar) An interjection of "both of my balls" or "both of deez nuts".


click-through rate

en-noun

click-through rate (plural click-through rates)

(Internet, advertising) A ratio of the number of clicks on a unit of online advertising to the number of times it is shown.


cookie wall

(Internet) A barrier to viewing a website, requiring the user to agree to accept an HTTP cookie before proceeding.


Fediverse

Blend of federation + universe. The earliest known mention of fediverse on Twitter was in 2012. It has been in use since. The earliest known use of fediverse in W3C was in 2013.

While there is clearly a strong appetite amongst women to move away from the digital giants, Spinster is hardly free from their reach, or indeed from hostile men within the wider Fediverse network.

2020, Jessica Megarry, The Limitations of Social Media Feminism: No Space of Our Own, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 303:

The migration of Gab marked a major test for the Fediverse. Because no one authority controlled the policies of the network, it would be impossible to bar Gab with a single sweeping action, the way centralized social networks such as Facebook or Twitter might.

2022, “Decentralized networks vs the trolls”, in Hoda Mahmoudi et al., editors, Fundamental Challenges to Global Peace and Security, Springer Nature, →ISBN, page 149:

Instead of creating a single unified platform, the the^([sic]) protocol that Mastodon uses, called ActivityPub, allows anyone to use open-source software to boot up a server that hosts a Twitter-style community with its own rules. Together those servers, and other, non-Mastodon ones, form a collective of interlinked communities dubbed the “Fediverse.”

2022 November 14, Will Knight, “The Man Behind Mastodon Built It for This Moment”, in Wired, →ISSN:

(Internet) The distributed social network of federated services using open standard communication protocols, especially ActivityPub and historically OStatus.


cursorjacking

Blend of cursor + hijacking; compare clickjacking.

(Internet, neologism) The malicious practice of tricking a user into clicking a visual element they did not intend to click, by manipulating the cursor's apparent location.


xeet

Combination of X + tweet. Originated from a July 2023 hoax claiming that tweets would be renamed as part of the site's rebrand from Twitter to X.

One of the biggest questions on everyone’s minds since the change: what are we supposed to call a “tweet” now? Many users have guessed “xeet,” a variation on the original term “tweet.” Posts alleging to be screenshots of the Twitter help center page including the term “xeet” have even circulated on the platform, though notes beneath those tweets have marked them false and a quick visit to the official help page shows only the term “tweet” and no sign of “xeet.”

[2023 July 25, Mary Walrath-Holdridge, “X’s and Xeets: What we know about Twitter’s rebrand, new logo so far”, in USA Today:

As of Wednesday, he [Greg Hwang] was tweeting (xeeting?) from @x1234567998765, including one tweet (xeet?) that read, “Alls well that ends well.”

2023 July 26, A.J. McDougall, “Elon Offers Twitter User Merch After Stealing His @X Handle”, in Daily Beast:

haha, great #xeet my friend, dattebayo!

2023 December 28, @sillyeralol, Twitter:

“This is my 88th xeet, Heil Hitler,” the account said, using a portmanteau to describe posting on X. The number 88 holds significance for neo-Nazis

2024 January 5, Jerod MacDonald-Evoy, quoting Alexander Katsnelson, “Ex-Gosar staffers have voiced racism, antisemitism and homophobia on social media”, in AZ Mirror:

Your oomf? Don't be silly. You're not oomfs. Not anymore. And examining Marcy's priv xeets, it's doubtful you ever were.

Erm future banger xeet? Follow me! Also!! Dont forget your click! arab.org/

(Twitter, humorous) Alternative form of tweet


xeet

en-verb

xeet (third-person singular simple present xeets, present participle xeeting, simple past and past participle xeeted)

xeets (present singular third-person)
xeeting (participle present)
xeeted (participle past)
xeeted (past)

Just got to my office (the bathroom) and ready to start xeeting

She actually xeeted this.

The whole idea behind these recipes is to put a new twist on classic tailgate food, and if you want to take it a step further, you should—just make sure to tweet (xeet?) me a photo of the result at @nolanbianchi.

2024 September 6, Nolan Biachi, “Tailgate recipes: Beefy Queso Animal Style Nachos”, in TCA Regional News, Chicago:


blue check

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From the blue check mark badge that was previously displayed beside the names of such users. The second sense derives from the rude behavior from an influx of users who paid for extra features in their Twitter accounts from early 2023 onwards.

Other blue checks on Twitter also weighed including Questlove and John Mayer.

2016 January 27, Adelle Platon, “Wiz Khalifa, John Mayer & More React to Kanye West's 'Waves' Album Name Change”, in Billboard:

It is a cardboard gold crown, but it helps in certain cases; for example, Twitter support will prioritize intervention requests when trolls attack a blue check.

2020, Joanne McNeil, Lurking: How a Person Became a User, unnumbered page:

Some posted images of the French Revolution or the Korean film ‘Parasite’ as a way to show the feelings of the masses when the powerful “elites” of Twitter could not use their accounts. This is due to a perception that many “blue checks” only retweet each other and that the social media giant somehow prioritizes these verified accounts.

2020 July 16, Seth J. Frantzman, “Many celebrate as verified Twitter users unable to tweet due to hack”, in The Jerusalem Post:

(Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) A Twitter user whose account was verified by Twitter as authentic (i.e. not a parody or imposter account) and deemed to be of public interest prior to this system's replacement by a paid verification scheme in early 2023.


blue check mark

en-noun

blue check mark (plural blue check marks)

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“Some blue check marks,” he said, in reference to verified users on Twitter, “are trying to take credit for Epstein’s arrest, but I think we all know where the real investigations are coming from . . . The chans are incredible!”

2019 July 10, Travis View, “How conspiracy theorists taint the justice they seek”, in The Washington Post:

I think a lot of Democrats around the country imagine a Justice League-style building where all the party players have an office and there is a conference room where Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, the presidential candidates, and all your favorite Blue Check Marks on Twitter get together to make strategic decisions.

2020, Dan Pfeiffer, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again, unnumbered page:

A month later most of us are voluntary detainees in our homes as part of an inspiring— if weird—act of mass solidarity. We are not doing it because «fear porn» made us or because the blue check marks hate Donald Trump.

2020 April 17, Tim Miller, “The Ballad of Clay Travis”, in Gorizont Russian Newspaper, page 13:

(dated, Internet slang, sometimes derogatory) Synonym of blue check.


blue checkmark

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But when records of bad decisions find their way into the spotlight, it is seemingly impossible to keep the pitchfork-wielding blue checkmarks at bay.

2019 February 14, Erik Halvorson, “Past wrongs should be met with grace and forgiveness”, in The Hillside Collegian, Hillsdale College, page A5:

But on the night of the caucuses, disaster! The blue checkmarks of rose Twitter caught wind of your plot!

2020 February 26, Sean Casey, “The view from the twilight zone”, in The Stanford Daily, Stanford University, page 4:

"I do think that some of the blue-checkmark brigade backlash on Twitter that you all in the media so predictably overreact to is non-organic," he says, using the Trumpworld shorthand for "verified" Twitter users. (Gaetz is a verified Twitter user.)

2020 March, Ryan Bort, “The MAGA Mouthpiece”, in Rolling Stone, page 42:


Weird Twitter

You may not be paid, but you've got major cred with Weird Twitter, so enjoy it while it lasts, @pizzahut.

2012, Kevin O'Toole & Nathaniel Edwards, "Abandon All Hope...", North by Northwestern, Fall 2012, page 51

Since being discovered, Weird Twitter has been poked, prodded, analyzed and made merciless fun of.

2013 November 12, Samantha Bares, “We should appreciate 'Weird Twitter'”, in The Daily Reveille, Louisiana State University, page 9:

Oftentimes, the funniest tweets emerge from the peculiar depths of "Weird Twitter," a subculture so twistedly surreal that it could curl Salvador Dali's moustache.

2015, Daniel Konikoff, "140 characters of comic gold", Varsity (The University of Toronto), 22 March 2015, page 18

(Internet) A community of Twitter accounts dedicated to satirical, absurdist, or subversive humor.


cottagecore

If you've ever yearned for an idyllic life in the country, then cottagecore is for you.

2021, Emily Kent, The Little Book of Cottagecore: Traditional Skills for a Simpler Life, page 5:

Underneath the clutter, the twin-size mattress was covered with a patchwork quilt and sheets dotted with tiny pink roses. There was a ruffled mint green bed skirt to match the ruffled gingham valance above the window. It was like standing in the cottagecore Holy Land.

2021, Susannah Nix, Elementary Romantic Calculus, unnumbered page:

I weeded and watered all while being nurtured myself. Working for Granny felt more like a cottagecore vacation than it should at times.

2021, Willa Reece, Wildwood Whispers, unnumbered page:

Each show spans over 180 minutes, including 40-plus songs from at least nine albums; there are 16 costume changes, pyrotechnics, an optical illusion in which she appears to dive into the stage and swim, and not one but two cottagecore worlds, which feature an abundance of moss.

2023 December 6, Sam Lansky, “Person of Year 2023 : Taylor Swift”, in Time:

(aesthetic) An aesthetic that celebrates a return to traditional skills and crafts associated with rural living, such as sewing, gardening, foraging, baking, and pottery.

shabby chic

interior design style favouring worn furniture


blogness

(rare) The state or quality of being a blog.


bloggery

To me bloggery is much like modern poetry: most people want to write it than read it.

2007, The Spectator, volumes 303–304, page 56:

(rare) The act or practice of writing a blog; blogging.


blogoverse

(Internet) The world or sphere of blogs; the blogosphere.


incelosphere

Almost 1,000 references to dehumanising misogyny or violent action are recorded each day in the “incelosphere” as the toxicity of male supremacist content continues to intensify.

2022 October 30, Mark Townsend, “Experts fear rising global ‘incel’ culture could provoke terrorism”, in The Guardian, retrieved 2023-12-03:

2023 June, Lewys Brace, Stephane J. Baele, Debbie Ging, “Where do ‘mixed, unclear, and unstable’ ideologies come from? A data-driven answer centred on the incelosphere”, in Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism:

(Internet, neologism) The online communities where incels communicate.


over 9000

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over nine thousand
over nine thousand#English


dark traffic

(Internet) Traffic to a website that is miscategorized by analytics software because it lacks data points such as the origin of the users.


ragetweet

en-verb

ragetweet (third-person singular simple present ragetweets, present participle ragetweeting, simple past and past participle ragetweeted)

ragetweets (present singular third-person)
ragetweeting (participle present)
ragetweeted (participle past)
ragetweeted (past)

While their usefulness was debatable, they definitely gave the earlier V phones some identity, and there will certainly be a faction of LG fans who ragetweet the loss.

2017 October, Michael Simon, “LG V30 hands-on: A 6-inch beast with more power and fewer gimmicks”, in PC World, page 74:

Trump was incensed by what he heard, even if he did not follow all the details. He spent Easter Sunday morning watching Fox and rage[-]tweeting about the migrants.

2019, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Michael D. Shear, Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 243:

Welp. Another day, another thing for Twitter to rage-tweet about. This time, it’s all Netflix’s fault. Oh, and also, David Benioff and D. B. Weiss are to blame because people still aren’t over how they ruined the final season of Game of Thrones.

2019 August 8, Shannon Barbour, “LOL, Twitter Is Pissed About Netflix Hiring ‘Game of Thrones’ Writers David Benioff and D. B. Weiss”, in Cosmopolitan:

(transitive, intransitive, informal) To post an update to Twitter in anger.


ragetweet

en-noun

ragetweet (countable and uncountable, plural ragetweets)

“Halt” understood that computing was culture. This idea — that technology is self-expression — has been cheapened through decades of faux-utopian advertising, and it rings a little sad today, after we’ve seen that culture yield social-media pile-ons, presidential ragetweets and the Gamergate harassment of female game developers like Cameron.

2017 October 14, James Poniewozik, “How Failure Made ‘Halt and Catch Fire’ Great”, in The New York Times:

The answer to that question has less to do with Donald Trump than the constant crush of anguished media attention to every Trumpian rage-tweet, racist slur, authoritarian-accented threat, and expression of seething contempt for our institutions makes it seem.

2018, Greg Sargent, An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our Democracy in an Age of Trumpian Disinformation and Thunderdome Politics, New York, NY: HarperCollins, →ISBN, page unknown:

The Trump curse meant this White House was in turmoil from the very first day. Unmanaged and unmanageable, this president governs by ragetweet and paranoia.

2019, Rick Wilson, Everything Trump Touches Dies: A Republican Strategist Gets Real About the Worst President Ever, New York, NY: Free Press, →ISBN, page 169:

(informal) An update posted to Twitter in anger.


vagueblog

en-verb

vagueblog (third-person singular simple present vagueblogs, present participle vagueblogging, simple past and past participle vagueblogged)

vagueblogs (present singular third-person)
vagueblogging (participle present)
vagueblogged (participle past)
vagueblogged (past)

"A lot of people have called us out. Subtweeting, vagueblogging, saying that The CW is instituting a program that is esoteric, abstruse, and worse, morally bankrupt."

2015 December 7, Brook Becker, “New sexual health course based on relationships in Gossip Girl”, in The Collegian, University of Tulsa, page 14:

She longed to go to him, embrace him, and more -- but she knew he'd never allow it, so she contented herself vagueblogging about him and posting raunchy "jokes".

2019, J. C. Cheesman, Wish Fulfillment, unnumbered page:

use Tumblr to vagueblog
about him, go back
and delete every post
you have tagged with his name.

2020, Anonymous, "The Gen Z Guide to Letting Him Go", The Greenleaf Review 2020 (Guilford College), page 41

(Internet, neologism) To post deliberately cryptic statements on a social media or blogging platform.


edit warrior

As Wikipedia has grown, Wales has been forced to impose some more centralized, policelike measures–to guard against “edit warriors,” “point-of-view warriors,” “revert warriors,” and all those who have difficulty playing well with others.

2006, Brendan I. Koerner, The Best of Technology Writing 2006, →ISBN, page 113:

Amid the scores of single-issue edit-warriors with screen names like PalestineRemembered, HumusSapiens, and G-Dett, two Wikipedians stand out for their tenacity and influence, and for the resourcefulness of their wikilawyering: Jayjg and SlimVirgin.

2007, Bidoun: A Quarterly Forum for Middle Eastern Talent, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 60:

Edit warriors, however, are more often than not myopic in their view of Wikipedia, believing that a “wrong” version should not be allowed to stand on Wikipedia—even for a day!

2008, Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, Ben Yates, How Wikipedia Works: And how You Can be a Part of it, →ISBN, page 389:

As the volume of work and of disputes grew, a Mediation Committee aiming to find common ground between edit warriors was established; it had no coercive power.

2009, Mathieu O'Neil, Cyberchiefs: Autonomy and Authority in Online Tribes, →ISBN, page 157:

(wiki jargon) One who engages in an edit war.


Booklr

Over the last few years, we've seen the booklr community grow as quickly as our shelves, […]

2016, K. A. Beestone, "Introduction to The Book Nest", The Book Nest, Spring 2016, page 4

Booklr user ladybookmad started #readthemargin, dedicating the month of December to reading books by marginalized authors.

2016 December, Jenna Kilpinen, “Bookternet and diversity”, in Contrawoman, page 18:

On YouTube, users who describe themselves as BookTubers are vlogging about books and reading, on Instagram we find posters using hashtags such as #bookstagram, while Tumblr has a sub-community Booklr.

2018, Dorothee Birke, Johannes Fehrle, “#booklove: How Reading Culture is Adapted on the Internet”, in Komparatistik, page 63:

(Internet slang) The community of book and reading-oriented blogs on Tumblr.


hellsite

once we finally #VerifySteakUmm and blow the lid off this corrupted hellsite we'll do a @reddit AMA so all the fresh faces pouring in may know who we are and what we stand for

2018 January 16, Josh Hafner, “Steak-umm, the frozen cheesesteak brand, defeats Twitter in epic battle for verification”, in First Coast News:

For those of you not active on the hellsite known as Twitter, Naked managed to finish the job of alienating the wine-writing community with a deliberately provocative piece of marketing copy […]

2018 June, David Williams, “Naked guns for a soft target”, in The Wine Merchant, page 15:

"I had no idea that it would end up consuming so much of my time, so I just picked two things I enjoy," he says about his Twitter handle. "I might've chose something else that made more sense if I had known how popular this hellsite would become!"

2019, @recordsANDradio, quoted in Kelyn Soong, "People & Places," Washington City Paper, 10 May 2019, page 88

Every other news cycle, when any particular quake related to someone saying something stupid or disagreeable or out of touch or oftentimes simply oversharey occurs, it triggers a recurrent tsunami of contemplation of why any of us in the industry are on the hellsite at all.

2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:

(Internet slang, humorous) A social media platform (particularly Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or Tumblr) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.


BookTube

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

By introducing BookTube to students studying literature, teachers may be able to inspire additional engagement in both the reading and the reports or other assignments that are based on it.

2014, Marohang Limbu, Binod Gurung, Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization, page 96:

I started my own BookTube channel in 2014 as a way to review books and talk about my writing.

2019, Jen Campbell, "BookTube", in Giles Clark & Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, page 271

Booktube is a small community in YouTube that has exploded during these past few years.

2019, Rose Brock, Young Adult Literature in Action: A Librarian's Guide, 3rd Edition, page 30:

The community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.


Bookstagrammer

It's a learning curve – each day you discover something new and it's through collaborating with other Bookstagrammers this is made possible.

2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 84:

We get a lot of people coming in to take pictures for Instagram, so we pay attention to Instagram poets and bookstagrammers to know what our audience might want.

2019, Katie Orphan, quoted in Karen Schechner, "A Conversation with Katie Orphan, manager of The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles", Kirkus Reviews, 1 August 2019, page 165

I was pleasantly surprised how immediately warm and welcoming all the other bookstagrammers were of my account.

2020, Sam Miller, quoted in Linnea Wingerup, "Cheers To Being Queer (On The Internet!)", Peacock Magazine (American University of Paris), Spring 2020, page 37

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on books and reading.


Instaworthy

en-adj

Instaworthy (comparative more Instaworthy, superlative most Instaworthy)

more Instaworthy (comparative)
most Instaworthy (superlative)

That wildflower meadow may be an Instaworthy campsite – but your tent can crush delicate vegetation.

2016, Darby Levin & Haley Weiss, "Trail Foods: Noshing in Nature", Penn Appétit (University of Pennsylvania), Spring 2016, page 17

Most tourists make a quick stop at one of two places in La Jolla: the Children's Pool to see the famous sea lions, or the La Jolla Shores Park to take an Instaworthy shot of the Scripps Pier at sunset.

2017, Amber Manan, "San Diego Hidden Gems", Twist, Spring 2017, page 33

A stone's throw from the hustle and bustle of the CBD is Elk Espresso, where a visionary menu of Instaworthy breakfast spreads are every bit as much of a feast for the eyes as the mouth.

2018 March, Laura Dundovic, “Golden girl”, in Jetstar, page 23:

Lending itself to being photographed and posted on social media; photogenic.


Instafamous

Instafamous (comparative more Instafamous, superlative most Instafamous)

more Instafamous (comparative)
most Instafamous (superlative)

You see, this isn't such a rare sighting when it comes to the bald-headed, ultra-bendy, Instafamous yogi queen we know as Chocolate Yoga (@chocolate_yoga).

2018 January, Marley Jeranko, “Bending the Rules”, in Cherry Creek Lifestyle, page 54:

Anyway, the point is, I'll get Instafamous one day.

2018, Zoe Stojanovic-Hill, "Editorial", Honi Soit (University of Sydney), Week 9, Semester 2 (2018), page 2

Ta Tat Eatery makes its Instafamous katsu sando with toasted brioche, and it's safe to say none of its devotees seem to be sad for the lack of levain.

2019 October, Lauren Bravo, “The Rise and Fall”, in Foodism, page 56:

(informal) Well-known or popular on Instagram.


Bookternet

I was inspired by all my newfound Bookternet friends—readers, writers, bloggers, booksellers, publishing world types, and fellow refugees.

2014, Maris Kreizman, “Publishing: A Story”, in Sari Botton, editor, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, page 171:

Through Goodreads, I was drawn into the world of the “bookternet,” an internet subculture of book-geeks, mostly young women who may have started their reading fanaticism with Harry Potter.

2018, Rebecca Hill, “Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary”, in Jonathan Chambers, Stephannie S. Gearhart, editors, Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities, page 176:

To my whole Booktube, Bookternet family, ALL OF YOU: Thank you for being the best, kindest, most welcoming, most understanding, most supportive, gorgeous friends a girl could ask for.

2019, "Acknowledgements", in Christine Riccio, Again, but Better, page 376

The online community and subculture of book lovers.