linktree

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From the company name Linktree, from link + tree.

In examining the patronage platforms for the following case study, we found that Twitter and Instagram are most popular among this grouping of cosplayers; many did not link to their tumblrs in their linktrees, so while tumblr has a large amount of fan users, we were unable to determine whether these cosplayers also used the platform.

2021 September 2, Lauren Rouse, Anastasia Salter, “Cosplay on Demand? Instagram, OnlyFans, and the Gendered Fantrepreneur”, in Social Media + Society, SAGE Publications, →DOI, page 4, column 2:

(social media) A landing page of social media links created using the online service Linktree.


modmail

en-noun

modmail (countable and uncountable, plural modmails)

They asked for simple things like updates to their “modmail,” the internal message tool that moderators use to manage their groups.

2018, Jeremy Heimans, Henry Timms, New Power: How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make It Work for You, Doubleday, →ISBN:

She mostly kept to protocol when issues arose here and elsewhere, trying to message moderators through modmail, the internal Reddit mail system, where she was sometimes known as Alex.

2018, Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory, Piatkus, →ISBN:

We used this modmail feature to contact the moderators thereafter.

2020, Koustuv Saha, Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala, Sarmistha Dutta, Eva Sharma, Munmun De Choudhury, “Understanding Moderation in Online Mental Health Communities”, in Gabriele Meiselwitz, editor, Social Computing and Social Media. Participation, User Experience, Consumer Experience, and Applications of Social Computing, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, →ISBN, page 95:

(uncountable) A messaging system on Reddit used for communication between moderators and other Redditors.


Snap

The Snapstreak increases when you and your friend send a Snap to each other within a 24-hour period for three consecutive days.

2019 August 6, Becky Pemberton, “Snapchat streaks: How to get back a lost streak and how to report a problem”, in The Sun:

(social media) A visual message sent through the Snapchat application.

“Can we exchange info or something? Maybe we can meet up tomorrow.” “Sure, my Snap is NoWaySims.” “That sounds like a fake account,” Ty said.

2022, Kasie West, Places We’ve Never Been, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 97:

“What’s your Snap?” she says, pulling out her phone, medium-sized with a black sparkly cover that says *That B!tch* in gold letters. “I don’t have Snap,” I say.

2022, Lee Call, The Angel Room, J Emrys Press, →ISBN:

“I’m in. I’m in. We’ll have a lot to coordinate here, so what’s your Snap?” Brady pulled out his phone and waited on my reply. “Yeah, I don’t have Snapchat. I’ll just give you my number.”

2023, Mike Thayer, The Talent Thief, Feiwel and Friends, →ISBN:

(social media, colloquial) Clipping of Snapchat (“user account on Snapchat”).


Snap

en-verb

Snap (third-person singular simple present Snaps, present participle Snapping, simple past and past participle Snapped)

Snaps (present singular third-person)
Snapping (participle present)
Snapped (participle past)
Snapped (past)

“Snap Clark again, Bea,” Madeline said. “Hopefully he’ll send another bathing suit pic.” / Bea smoothed her hair down and sat up straight on the diving board. She sucked in her cheeks, making her lips all pouty, and took a selfie. For someone who didn’t know how to use Snapchat half an hour ago, she was really getting into it. / Two seconds later she held up her phone. “He Snapped back.”

2020 October, Eileen Moskowitz-Palma, School Squad (The Popularity Pact; 2), New York, N.Y.: Running Press Kids, →ISBN:

I said I forgot what good taste he had in music and that I really liked House. He said he did too and ask^([sic]) me if I was on Snapchat? I said I used to be and that I could add it again. The instant I did he Snapped me and said he could really use a good back massage.

2022, Leo Neet, 1000 Secrets, a Million Lies: Confessions of a Sex Addict, Pittsburgh, Pa.: Dorrance Publishing Co, →ISBN, page 45:

Damien wants to add me on Snapchat and write to me about all the ice cream he’s eaten this evening, which I should have taken as a sign we would never meet. We briefly discuss getting together but send each other dirty pics instead. […] One evening Damien gets excited and says, I’m going to send you a newd (a brand new one!), and then texts the same one he Snapped three weeks ago, a black-and-white artsy number with weed smoke trailing above his privates like ribbon dancers at a music festival.

2024, Suzanne Samples, Thirteen Tunnels, [Los Angeles, Calif.]: Running Wild Press, →ISBN:

(social media, ditransitive) To send a visual message through the Snapchat application.


I don't even

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what is this I don't even
what is this I don't even#English

Alternative form of what is this I don't even


out-of-office

There are poetic out-of-offices and humorous (or supposedly humorous) out-of-offices. There are out-of-offices that boast or complain about the person’s likely whereabouts (Bali! Jury duty.).

2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times:

That doesn’t happen in even the most enlightened workplaces, but nothing makes me feel more patriotic than emailing a French company in summer, getting an out-of-office that sends me to someone else, that person also being en vacances and suggesting a third, whose out-of-office directs me back to the first person.

2023 August 7, Emma Beddington, “Email makes my fingers tingle and my stomach drop with dread. Can’t we go back to pigeons?”, in The Guardian:

For many of us, turning on an out-of-office is one of the last things to do before going on holiday. It is typically a concise message outlining that you’re on annual leave and who to contact in your absence. But for some gen Z workers, an OOO is becoming another way to add a bit of pizzazz to work culture; a way to showcase their personality, as well as their approach to the office.

2024 July 25, Chloe Mac Donnell, “‘Slay, serve, survive’: How gen Z is rewriting the rules of work”, in The Guardian:

(Internet) An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time.


Rebecca purple

Named in memory of the daughter of Web standards advocate Eric A. Meyer.

Rebecca purple:

At this point, try previewing the results of our demo, if all is well, we should see the same box as before, but this time with a slightly lighter shade of rebecca purple as its color:

2016, Alex Libby, Mastering PostCSS for Web Design, page 376:

In this example, instead of instantaneously changing a button's color value on hover, with CSS transitions the button can be set to gradually fade from magenta to rebecca purple over 200 milliseconds, even adding a 50-millisecond delay before transitioning.

2017, Eric Meyer, Estelle Weyl, CSS: The Definitive Guide: Visual Presentation for the Web, page 856:

(Internet) A medium purple color represented by the hexadecimal RGB triplet #663399.


Wiknic

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"Basically, we tried to encourage people in each local area to do their own thing," says Richard Knipel, who has been heavily involved with New York area Wiknics on which the national effort, planned for 18 cities around the United States, is based.

2011 June 24, Monica Hesse, “A Wiki-Picnic for online encyclopedia editors”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-07-28:

I find it regrettable that these events are only in the U.S. There are plenty of excellent Wikipedia contributors all around the world, and there are provisions for "Start[ing] an event for your city" (see the main Wiknic article), so I hope people from other countries will schedule local Wiknics soon.

2013 June 20, Berkeley Brett, “Wikipedia's own Manual of Style”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):

On a recent Sunday, some members of the Wikimedia D.C. chapter — an eclectic mix of 50 or so area academics, professionals and all-around geeks — met up in Meridian Hill Park, not far from the White House, as part of the nationwide "Great American Wiknic." The group picnic, like the encyclopedia itself, was potluck.

2013 July 16, “The Great American Wiknic [edit]”, in NPR:

(Wikimedia jargon) A picnic organized by Wikimedians.


service worker

(Internet, programming) A scriptable network proxy in a web browser that manages network requests for a web page.


gymfluencer

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

"I just want to help you Row-land!" as his loyal friend Janet said. Overweight, bespectacled misfit Roly suffered horrific bullying at the hands of hardnut Norman "Gripper" Stebson. He later slimmed down, took up triathlons, became an online "gymfluencer" and has written a self-help book about how to reverse Type 2 diabetes.

2019 November 21, Michael Hogan, “What kind of parents will the kids from Grange Hill make?”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-01-06:

My skincare (and food) diet went out of the window in December, and as a result I'm feeling sluggish and my complexion is up in arms: dry patches, dullness, blemishes, the works. The last thing I feel like is squeezing into Lycra and standing next to smug matcha-drinking gymfluencers.

2020 January 12, Sarah Jossel, “Six beauty products to use while exercising”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-29:

If eyes are the window to the soul, selfies are an insight into how we want the world to see us. Are you a gymfluencer or a pastel-pink VSCO girl? Are you a bougie London literary woman or a wellness freak?

2020 February 7, Zing Tsjeng, “People Show Us Their Favourite Selfies of Themselves”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2023-06-03:

Every so often, a viral GymTok clip would make the rounds on the platform – and sometimes it's ugly. Some clips show TikTokers mock an unsuspected gym-goer for their form. Others show gymfluencers get frustrated because a person unintentionally 'ruins their video'.

2022 March 18, Becca Monaghan, “'This one absolutely disgusted me:' Man puts gym influencer on blast”, in Indy100, archived from the original on 2022-12-03:

No matter if you are a gymfluencer, a professional sports person, or just a regular bum-owner, having strong glutes will keep you in good stride.

2022 November 8, Charlotte Ganderton, Adam Semciw, Matthew King, “Glute force: why big, strong bum muscles matter for your overall health”, in Stuff, archived from the original on 2022-11-08:

The gymfluencer has previously shared clips of her doing the exercise successfully, and regularly shares workout routines with her followers on TikTok and Instagram.

2023 February 3, Elena Salvoni, “Squat a disaster! Watch as gym lover takes dramatic tumble while attempting a risky exercise with a massive weight”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-05:

"A lot of their content has become, 'Let me get likes and attention at the expense of someone else,'" he [Joey Swoll] said of gymfluencers.

2023 February 23, Kirsten Fleming, “Bodybuilder Joey Swoll is ’standing up’ for victims of gym ’shaming’”, in New York Post, New York, N.Y.: News Corp, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-22:

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

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

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


Twitterese

To learn Twitterese, review the tweets of other users to see how they’re condensing messages. Just remember to turn off Twitterese when you send an email to someone or compose a letter.

2010, Jan Zimmerman, Doug Sahlin, Social Media Marketing All-in-One For Dummies®, Wiley, →ISBN:

Responding to a woman I’ve never met who works in book publishing, I type in the language of 140-character Twitterese: “I want Mr. T GPS voice! How abt James Earl Jones? He says turn left you *turn* left. Or Norah Jones? Plaintive directions.”

2013, Adam L. Penenberg, Play at Work: How Games Inspire Breakthrough Thinking, Portfolio, →ISBN:

The role of celebrity is to anchor a group (known in Twitterese as ‘followers’) into present-tense meaningfulness or future-facing conditions, which may be why newly minted celebrities are ever younger in the most prominent international popular-culture systems (Hollywood; music; social media).

2014, John Hartley, Jason Potts, Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation, Bloomsbury Academic, published 2016, →ISBN, page 86:

We might say that moving through all three languages from Shakespeare to Twitterese involves imaginatively going beyond the givens, creating a startling and novel declaration: “horses go all cannibal . . .”

2016, John Barell, Moving from What to What If?: Teaching Critical Thinking with Authentic Inquiry and Assessments, Routledge, →ISBN:

Based on the internet linguistics research (cf. Crystal 2006, 2008), we propose a unitary analysis of “paralinguistic devices” such as hashtags and punctuation devices found in Twitterese which ascribe “tonal colouring” to utterances, serving to express humour, sarcasm, irony, and self-deprecation.

2018, Ewelina Prażmo, “Twitterati in the Twitterverse: A Cognitive Linguistics Account of Hashtags on Twitter”, in Rafał Augustyn, Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos, editors, New Insights into the Language and Cognition Interface, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, part three (Multimodality in Language Processing), page 118:

On second look, the mainstream media resisted reporting the Anti-Theory story (~atoe in Twitterese) because it seemed so catastrophic.

2019, Eric J. Adams, Cosmic Fever, Black Rose Writing, →ISBN, page 132:


The Dress

“The Dress” is an excellent example of light source, reflectance, and shadow indeterminacy.

2019, Daniel T. Willingham, Cedar Riener, Cognition: The Thinking Animal, page 74:

(Internet slang) A dress, a photograph of which became an online viral phenomenon in 2015 as debate raged over whether it was blue and black or white and gold.


red room

In fact some fake 'red rooms' on the Dark Web use scenes from mainstream horror films to deceive viewers into believing that they are attempting to access extreme content.

2017, Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed, New Perspectives on Cybercrime, page 244:

In the red room, the people are cut into pieces and shown live on red room.

2020, Sayam Pradhan, The Darkest Web: The Dark side of the internet:

The plot centers around the player accessing the Dark Web to find a red room, where someone is streaming the live torture of a person. The player must examine the code of various websites in the game to determine the URL of the red room, while avoiding having their computer hacked or being kidnapped by online enemy (Hospodar, 2021).

2022, Thomas J. Holt, Adam M. Bossler, Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar, Cybercrime and Digital Forensics:

Join the red room to watch torture, murder and gory content on a live stream.

The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.

2022, Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter, Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music, page 62:

It's...very strong evidence that they were involved in what looks to be some dark web red room shit.”

A "myth," an "urban legend," is exactly what everyone who hasn't been on the deep web will tell you about red rooms.

2023, Atif Ali, Muhammad Qasim, Dark World: A Book on the Deep Dark Web, pages 4-39:

A red room is something that exists on the dark web. It's where anonymous individuals pay significant sums to watch someone die in real time.

2023, Will Dean, The Last One, page 324:

One night, at around 1 am, I decided to visit the dark web. Interestingly, I came across some online shopping websites, and I received a message from someone that contained a link to a red room.

2023, Rajat Dey, Dr. Panem Charanarur, Dr. G. Srinivasa Rao, Developing a hacker's mindset, page iv:

(Internet) A supposed kind of online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.

red room

online forum which livestreams torture and murder


Rare Pepe

According to Know Your Meme, the "Rare Pepes" meme was popularized by users on the 4chan's /r9k/ board around October 2014.

In yet another example of the internet folding in on itself, you can buy and sell "rare Pepes" using PepeCash, a cryptocurrency that ultimately relies on the Bitcoin blockchain.

2018 January 7, Jessica Klein, “The world of cryptocollectibles like CryptoKitties looks like the internet's early days”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2023-05-16:

(Internet slang, 4chan) An unusual image of the Pepe the Frog character.


viewbot

viewbot (third-person singular simple present viewbots, present participle viewbotting, simple past and past participle viewbotted)

viewbots (present singular third-person)
viewbotting (participle present)
viewbotted (participle past)
viewbotted (past)

(Internet, crime) To increase the view count of an Internet video or a livestream via illegitimate means.


pay-per-click

(Internet marketing, often attributively) An online advertising model in which the advertiser pays the publisher (typically a search engine or website owner) whenever the ad is clicked by a user.


ghostban

ghostban (third-person singular simple present ghostbans, present participle ghostbanning, simple past and past participle ghostbanned)

ghostbans (present singular third-person)
ghostbanning (participle present)
ghostbanned (participle past)
ghostbanned (past)


stealthban

stealthban (third-person singular simple present stealthbans, present participle stealthbanning, simple past and past participle stealthbanned)

stealthbans (present singular third-person)
stealthbanning (participle present)
stealthbanned (participle past)
stealthbanned (past)


orphan page

(Internet) A webpage that is not accessible from any other page on a website, and can only be accessed by entering the direct URL.


frd

(Internet, text messaging) Abbreviation of friend.


bnuuy

Popularised during mid-2020; Know Your Meme tracks the usage of the term to an image posted to Reddit on 29 May 2020.

fucking bnuuy who gave you the right to be as cute as your owner [followed by a photograph of a black bunny]

Selen's bnuuy ears just being her wings lmao
Also Enna with the floppy ears is so cute wtf

Bnuuys are cute, people should hug them more

(Internet slang, childish, humorous, endearing) Deliberate misspelling of bunny.


lifecaster

(Internet) One who engages in lifecasting.


MrBeastification

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From MrBeast (“an American YouTube personality”) + -ification. Coined on 30 July 2022 by YouTuber Orr "Pinely" Piamenta.

suffix

YouTube is knee-deep in "MrBeastification."

2022 September 6, dannymcmahon, Twitter:

But I think specifically with MrBeastification, it was really the first time where a thumbnail style and a format became oversaturated on the platform.

2022 December 13, “Year in Review: Analyzing YouTube's Top 10 moments of 2022”, in The Colin and Samir Show:

dream dropping his 45 minute vlog during the peak mrbeastification of youtube

I don’t support the mrbeastification of any YouTubers videos. Videos that are around 20-30 minutes will always be better than these short videos people are pumping out now

the mrbeastification of karl jacobs has started

Due to this MrBeastification of content, there’s this very heavy desire for people to really get caught up in the stats.

2023 December 20, Vaibhav Singh Tomar, quoting Anthony Padilla, ““Beastification of Content”: Smosh Creators Talk About the Impact of MrBeast on the Creator Community”, in MSN:

(Internet slang, neologism) On the video-sharing website YouTube, the trend of videos having increasingly shorter runtimes, larger budgets, faster pacing, louder audio and attention-grabbing editing styles and oversaturated thumbnails for greater viewer retention, especially through replicating the ideas and format of American YouTuber MrBeast.


douchetuber

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From douchebag + YouTuber, ostensibly popularised by American YouTuber and streamer MoistCr1TiKaL in the late 2010s.

GUYS!! I'm so pumped for you to see me be a douchetuber in #internetfamousmovie!!

That's why children are so retarded these days. They have no house training and try to repeat everything that a DoucheTuber does. They should ban everyone under the age of 20 from the internet unless it's for school.

2021 May 31, Thunderbolt, Short Stories By Thunderbolt, Writers Republic, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

Faze fell off when they pivoted everything to Paul brothers-esque douchetuber content in the content house rather than actually being a gaming org.

2023 September 8, JabbityJibbity, Twitter:

(Canada, US, Internet slang, vulgar, often humorous, now ironic) A YouTuber who is arrogant, rude or obnoxious; a douchebag, especially one who flaunts their wealth, carries out pranks in poor taste, or engages in fraudulent activities.


doorslam

(web design) A pop-up or other obstruction preventing a user from viewing content, typically after reaching a scrolling threshold.


FOIT

Coordinate term: FOUT

(web development) Initialism of flash of invisible text.


DDNS

dynamic Domain Name System
w:dynamic DNS

(Internet) Initialism of dynamic Domain Name System.


Zoogler

The recent influx of Zooglers — those are Zurich's Google employees to you and me — has helped the city up the style ante.

2009, Condé Nast's Traveler, volume 44, page 80:

(informal) An employee of the Google corporation who is based in Zurich, Switzerland.


same-origin policy

en-noun

same-origin policy (plural same-origin policies)

Document Object Model
Document Object Model

(Internet) A rule, in web browsers, that permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages have the same origin (based on URI scheme, hostname, and port number), so as to prevent malicious scripts from accessing sensitive data through the Document Object Model.


oversighter

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Oversighters are allowed to hide revisions, user names, and other entries in an article's record of revisions (its log) so that only other oversighters and stewards can see them (called “suppression”).

2014, Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge?: An Ethnography of Wikipedia, page 34:

(Wikimedia jargon) A user with special wiki privileges allowing them to hide deleted data from the publicly viewable logs.


IDNA

Because the DNS requires that a domain name be in an ACE format, IDNA proposes that client applications, such as a web browser, manage the character conversion internally.

2003, John Yunker, Beyond Borders: Web Globalization Strategies, New Riders, →ISBN:

internationalized domain name
w:internationalized domain name

(Internet) Initialism of internationalized domain name in applications.


ECN

Explicit Congestion Notification
w:Explicit Congestion Notification

(Internet) Initialism of Explicit Congestion Notification.


ORG

online reality game
online reality game#English

(Internet) Initialism of online reality game.


linkpost

(Internet) A posted message consisting of, or based around, a hyperlink.


cybermail

Similarly, in the case of the Internet, there is rising user concern about malpractice, ranging from the flood of unsolicited 'junk cybermail' to intrusion of privacy.

21st century, City of London College of Economics, MBA in Marketing (page 980)

The key to this tale is in that last word, "revolution", because why, you may ask, did these "sinister" and "degrading" cybermail ancestors, these grotesque yet seductive postcards, feature representations of "Mexicans"?

2007, William Anthony Nericcio, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the "Mexican" in America, page 27:

(Internet, rare) Synonym of electronic mail


QUIC

Originally proposed as an acronym of Quick UDP Internet Connections.

Application protocols exchange information over a QUIC connection via streams, which are ordered sequences of bytes.

2021 May, “QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport”, in J. Iyengar, M. Thomson, editors, RFC Editor, →DOI, →ISSN, RFC 9000:

(Internet) A multiplexed transport layer protocol based on UDP.


-Tube

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


social medium

social medium (plural social media or (rare) social mediums)

social media (plural)
social mediums (plural rare)

His innovative teenage peers were horsing around in the digital playground, looking to create the next social medium or crowdsourcing technique.

2014 February 23, Jack Hitt, “A Young Inventor, Finding the Crunch Factor”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-07-10:

The term "alt-right" probably makes you think of Twitter or a dark subreddit, or 4chan, or some social medium occupied by meme-slinging, Trump-supporting, unapologetically bigoted provocateurs.

2016 October 9, Emma Grey Ellis, “How the Alt-Right Grew From an Obscure Racist Cabal”, in Wired, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-28:

Twitter has become newly relevant, thanks to its status as President Donald Trump's favorite social medium, and it added nine million active monthly users in the first quarter of this year.

2017 May 9, Om Malik, “What’s Wrong with Twitter’s Live-Video Strategy”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

Telegram, whose libertarian stylings and focus on privacy mirrors semi-anonymous bitcoin, is the social medium of choice for online cryptocurrency communities.

2018 January 25, “Silicon Valley investors line up to back Telegram ICO”, in Financial Times, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-12-10:

(Internet, uncommon) An application or website allowing users to share content and communicate with one another via the Internet; an individual social media site.


unshadowban

en-verb

unshadowban (third-person singular simple present unshadowbans, present participle unshadowbanning, simple past and past participle unshadowbanned)

unshadowbans (present singular third-person)
unshadowbanning (participle present)
unshadowbanned (participle past)
unshadowbanned (past)

You’re also probably wondering how to unshadowban your posts or account. We’re going to break down how to get unshadowbanned on Twitter for you in this comprehensive guide.

2023 August 24, Steve Kuhn, “How To Get Unshadowbanned on Twitter”, in ITGeared:

While you're navigating the unshadowbanning process, focus on the good stuff.

2024 June 28, “How to get "unshadowbanned" on Twitter!”, in Circleboom Blog:

(Internet, transitive) To remove a shadowban against.


Spooktober

Blend of spook + October, from the association of Halloween with October.

(humorous, chiefly Internet) Synonym of October


spamvertisement

Or do you really think that the spammers would stop spamming if only those pesky anti-spammers would just take up some other hobby? Take a look at their motivations: The spammers do it for money because there's always some fool who'll click on a link and buy something via a spamvertisement.

2005 January 12, Graham Freeman, “Re: "Spammers tax DNS infrastructures"”, in ba.internet (Usenet):


CalDAV

Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV
w:Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV

(Internet) Abbreviation of Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV.


unmonetize

unmonetize (third-person singular simple present unmonetizes, present participle unmonetizing, simple past and past participle unmonetized)

unmonetizes (present singular third-person)
unmonetizing (participle present)
unmonetized (participle past)
unmonetized (past)

(Internet, transitive) To disable monetization for published content.


neobrutalism

(web design) Alternative form of neubrutalism


neubrutalism

Neubrutalism can be easily identified by a few particular traits. Immediately noticeable are the solid clashing colours; large bold text in quirky fonts immediately tells you where you are and what you can do there.

2022 July 26, Maria Teneva, “Neubrutalism style in UX: a twist on the dominant modern minimalist”, in Medium, archived from the original on 2023-11-03:

Background color: In Neubrutalism, we can use multiple colors (other than white and light gray on light mode and dark colors on the dark theme) for the background color! We can use very vibrant colors, and vintage and muted colors.

2023 February 12, Sepideh Yazdi, “How can I design in the Neo Brutalism style?”, in Medium:

Neubrutalism (a.k.a. neo-brutalism) takes recent website trends to the next level—it retains its edge while also combining the unusual style with more modern animation, illustration, and text standards.

2023 December 21, Hermione Wright, “What Is the Neubrutalism Web Design Trend?”, in Envato Elements, archived from the original on 2024-02-29:

(web design) A modern Web user interface style inspired by brutalism.


-post

shit + -post → shitpost (“low-effort post”)

agenda + -post → agendapost (“post promoting a political agenda”)

Mike + -post → Mikepost (“post about someone named Mike (a politician, fictional character etc.)”)

(Internet) Denotes a type of Internet post.


tag group

Facebook's tag function affords tag group culture, where tag groups proliferate as a form of social currency.

2020, Lukas Parker, Linda Brennan, Social Marketing and Advertising in the Age of Social Media, page 37:

(Internet) A community on social media having an intentionally humorous or striking name, which people join so that the name shows up on their profiles.


Xitter

Blend of X + Twitter, following the rebranding of Twitter to X, influenced by the pronunciation of shitter.

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


WMS

(Internet) Initialism of Web Map Service.


CHIPS

(Internet) Acronym of cookies having independent partitioned state.


IXP

Internet exchange point
w:Internet exchange point

(Internet) Initialism of Internet exchange point.


LINX

London Internet Exchange
w:London Internet Exchange

(Internet) Acronym of London Internet Exchange.


Twitpocalypse

Blend of Twitter + apocalypse. Originally referring to the moment when the tweet identifier was expected to reach the 32-bit signed integer limit in June 2009.

This crash was supposed to happen sometime tomorrow, according to the countdown, but it looks like Twitter has just moved up the Twitpocalypse time to 21:00 GMT, which is 2 PM Pacific/5PM Eastern time today. Yes, in a couple hours.

2009 June 12, M. G. Siegler, “Twitter Moves Up The Twitpocalypse. All Hell May Break Loose Today.”, in TechCrunch:

The Twitpocalypse may have begun today [title]

2023 February 9, Simon Sharwood, “The Twitpocalypse may have begun today”, in The Register:

(humorous) A massive outage or bug affecting Twitter.


animation meme

(Internet) A short animation, typically set to music and depicting a character singing or dancing, intended to be spread or imitated by other animators.


countryhuman

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Compound of country + human, by analogy with countryball.

countryhumans fucking sucks but hey at least this new generation of weebs is gonna be real educated on world history

18h of a man reading the ego and his own while I draw cursed Jreg countryhumans is the peak of my existence

i swear when i first saw an image of ruv from that fnf mod i thought he was a countryhuman or something

I swear I left the countryhuman fandom months ago but my first thoughts were people drawing america

That is so cute. Finally a Russia countryhuman that is actually nice to Ukraine

2023 October 11, sheinaragners, Twitter:

(Internet slang, neologism, fandom slang) Artwork of countries personified as humans with spherical heads: often their heads or bodies are coloured in said country's national flag.


search-engine

search-engine (third-person singular simple present search-engines, present participle search-engining, simple past and past participle search-engined)

search-engines (present singular third-person)
search-engining (participle present)
search-engined (participle past)
search-engined (past)

(computing, Internet, transitive) To look up on a search engine.

(computing, Internet, intransitive) To use a search engine; to look things up on a search engine.


linkbaiting

en-noun

linkbaiting (countable and uncountable, plural linkbaitings)

In its simplest form, linkbaiting is the practice of creating content with the intent of generating incoming links from outside sources. Linkbaiting is sometimes perceived as being unethical because inbound links are one of the primary ways a search engine gauges how hey they will rank a website

2009, Mitch Joel, Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone., Hachette, →ISBN:

(SEO) The practice of creating content that attracts a lot of inbound links and generates buzz.


wikifarm

Educators interested in experimenting with wiki projects should check out the many “wikifarms” that host wikis for free or for a small fee.

2005 September, Jeffrey Hastings, “Cool Tools”, in School Library Journal, volume 51, number 9, page 45, column 2:

Wikifarms offer wiki software and hosting services for those who do not have the facilities or technical ability to create and host their own wiki.

2006, John Marshall Baker, Internet: Systems and Applications, St. Paul, Minn.: EMCParadigm, →ISBN, page 274:

We reviewed a range of wikifarms for suitability for our department’s needs. Methods: We referred to the list of wikifarms as listed in Wikipedia. By trial and comparison, we identified the features necessary for a departmental wiki. We selected a wikifarm based on these criteria.

2008 June, S. Shenoy, M.W. Lim, “[Scata-Esctaic 2007: Lecture Abstracts] Selecting a Departmental Wiki Solution – Cardiff’s Experience”, in Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, volume 22, number 3, →DOI, page 252, column 2:

Wowpedia.org is a project fork of Wowwiki.com. […] This forking occurred in October 2010 after a dispute between most of the Wowwiki administration—including the wider community—and Wikia, the wikifarm hosting Wowwiki.

2014 November, Rik Hunter, “Hypersocial-Interactive Writing: An Audience of Readers-As-Writers”, in Literacy in Composition Studies, volume 2, number 2, →DOI, page 40:

Popular knowledge graphs such as DBpedia and YAGO are built from Wikipedia, and therefore similar in coverage. In contrast, Wikifarms like Fandom contain Wikis for specific topics, which are often complementary to the information contained in Wikipedia, and thus DBpedia and YAGO.

2018, Sven Hertling, Heiko Paulheim, “DBkWik: A Consolidated Knowledge Graph from Thousands of Wikis”, in 2018 IEEE International Conference on Big Knowledge (ICBK), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, →DOI:


bottable

en-adj

bottable (comparative more bottable, superlative most bottable)

more bottable (comparative)
most bottable (superlative)

Most of WoW is fun and not bottable. People who think it's bottable generally don't understand that all the interesting difficult game content happens after you hit the level cap.

2006 November 22, egarland, “Blizzard Unbans Linux World of Warcraft Players. Re:But they were cheating!”, in Slashdot:

(Internet) That is susceptible or accessible for the use of automated tools.


SwiftTok

2021 November 17, Zoya Raza-Sheikh, “From SwiftTok to #Taylurking: How Taylor Swift redefined online fandom”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-03:

After Swift announced the upcoming release of a new album, Midnights, at the 2022 Video Music Awards, SwiftTok immediately began formulating theories on everything from what artists might be featured on the album, to what the songs would be titled, to what genre the record would dabble in

2022 October 17, Kevin Hurler, “What is 'SwiftTok'? Inside Taylor Swift's Rabid TikTok Fanbase”, in Gizmodo, archived from the original on 2023-08-21:

The Travis Kelce quotes alone will keep SwiftTok busy for weeks.

2023 December 6, Sam Adams, “Taylor Swift Is Time’s Person of the Year, in Terrible News for Taylor Swift”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-12-07:

The community of TikTok users who are fans of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift.


kiriban

Borrowed Japanese キリ番 (kiriban, “good digits”).

Kiriban for obliviousoul! for getting my 1000th hit

2004 May 15, CoolBlueX, “Onimusha 3 Kiriban”, in deviantart.com:

Wuffle's 10,000 kiriban winners! No.1-4

2012 February 14, Piti Yindee, Wuffle Ultimate Collection:

Author's Notes: Summoning Secrets was the one who finally claimed my latest FFN kiriban (sort of...close enough that I gave it to her...not sure why FFN readers never seem interested in kiriban XD).

2014 May 19, Raberba girl, The Dragon Queen of Berk:

The artist celebrated her 500 watcher kiriban.

(social media) Especially in digital art communities, a milestone profile page viewcount or watcher count, often celebrated with a giveaway.

This drawing is a kiriban I won for being her 500th watcher.

By extension, the prize itself in such a giveaway.


Usenet Death Penalty

internet service provider
internet service provider

(Internet, Usenet) A final penalty that may be issued against internet service providers or single users who produce too much spam or fail to adhere to Usenet standards, whereby all of their messages are deleted from Usenet servers and not allowed to propagate.


de-Google

en-verb

de-Google (third-person singular simple present de-Googles, present participle de-Googling, simple past and past participle de-Googled)

de-Googles (present singular third-person)
de-Googling (participle present)
de-Googled (participle past)
de-Googled (past)

Murena is in the business of deGoogling Android smartphones in the name of privacy.

2023 September 5, Natasha Lomas, “A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original on 2023-09-06:

(intransitive, transitive, technology, neologism) To remove all Google products and software from (something).


de-Googled

I bought a de-Googled smartphone so Google doesn't have access to all my data.

And some things still are extremely difficult, like removing Google services from my Android devices. To that end, I had originally purchased a OnePlus 3T several years ago with the intention of installing the de-Googled LineageOS variant of Android on it, but perhaps due to a lack of confidence in not bricking the $400 device during the installation procedure I could never quite bring myself to wipe the phone clean of its factory-installed operating system.

2021 September 2, Bryan Cockfield, “Pining For A De-Googled Smartphone”, in Hackaday, archived from the original on 2023-09-23:

The /e/ Foundation's de-Googled version of Android 10 has reached the market in a range of smartphones aimed at the privacy-conscious.

2022 June 2, Liam Proven, “Murena and /e/ Foundation launch privacy-centric smartphones”, in The Register, archived from the original on 2023-09-26:

Murena can even sell you a deGoogled (Google) Pixel which comes purged of the usual Google services — with no Play Store, Chrome browser, Google Maps etc — and running its alternative /e/OS, rather than mainstream Android.

(technology, neologism) That has had all Google products and software removed.


snowshoe spam

Metaphor based on the use of snowshoes to spread one's weight over a wider area.

(Internet) Spam (electronic junk mail) that is deliberately sent from a number of different IP addresses, to make it more difficult to detect and filter.


dicdef

(Wikimedia jargon) Short for dictionary definition.


vlogpology

Blend of vlog + apology. Popularised in a January 2020 study of YouTuber apology videos by data visualisation website The Pudding, but attested earlier (see quotations).

fucking RUINED this guy myers needs a vlogpology without hte^([sic]) mask ...SHOW YOURSELF MYERS !

And this is what he was trying to do. A vlog apology. Vlogpology. 👌

vlogpology (noun): when a famous YouTuber becomes embroiled in a controversy, makes headlines, and releases an apology video.

2020 January 14, Arjun Kakkar, Russell Samora, “The Aftermath of a YouTube Apology”, in The Pudding:

My findings also show that vlogpologies are often created when the vlogger is under extreme duress and may be uncomfortable with being told to apologise, which can result in non-apologetic language and seem insincere.

2022 November 14, Bella Sampson, I'm Sorry You(Tube) Feel That Way: An Introduction to the YouTube Vlogpology Genre (Thesis), Auckland University of Technology, page 2:

(derogatory, neologism, very rare) An apology video; a video, typically uploaded to video-sharing service YouTube, in which an Internet celebrity/influencer apologises for, or addresses, public backlash, especially in an insincere manner.


sewer slide

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Used for its similar pronunciation to suicide.

kermit sewer slide

The comments in another video, titled How To Attempt Sewer Slide [slang for suicide to avoid detection by moderators] With No Pain, saw users share tips on killing themselves.

2022 October 1, Jim Norton, Jacob Dirnhuber, “We posed as a TikTok teen ... and suicide posts appeared within minutes”, in Daily Mail, page 13:

(social media, euphemistic) Synonym of suicide


YouTube Pooper

A casual poll featuring several startup founders, computer programmers and YouTube Poopers produced estimates of anywhere from 0.1% to 8% of all YouTube videos falling into the category

2020 March 3, Zack O'Malley Greenburg, “YouTube Poop And The ‘Sanic’ Boom: Digesting The Strangest Slice Of Google’s $15B Video Business”, in Forbes:

...Payes, an enthusiast who has built a community of YouTube Poopers on Discord.

2022 February 27, Malavika Pradeep, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in Screenshot Media:

(Internet) A creator of YouTube poop videos.


YTPer

mrSimon had a fresh, quick style, was one of the first YTPers of any kind, and was also most likely the creator of YTPMVs.

2019 March 18, [deleted], “What are the most influential YTPers over the years?”, in Reddit (forum):

2020 August 22, [deleted], “[TOMT][CHANNEL][2018]Trying to find videos from a trans former YTPer”, in Reddit (forum):

I just learned my favorite YTPer is editing for SnapCube and doing a fantastic job.

2023 July 26, kozy4stuff, Tumblr (blog):


Poopism

Certain techniques are usually apparent in every YouTube Poop video. These techniques have been coined as ^([sic]) Poopisms.

(Can we date this quote?), “YouTube Poop”, in Remix Culture:

“Poopisms” are the common techniques and tricks used in videos to ensure they qualify as a true Poop.

2016 November 29, Amelia Tait, “The art of the YouTube Poop”, in New Statesman:

Independent of the source material, however, specific editing techniques are what define YouTube Poop. Conveniently termed ‘Poopisms’, the methods include...

Poopism refers to the way these videos are edited. They may contain random chopping, extremely loud audio manipulation, sentence mixing/word splicing, visual jokes, colorful and eye-popping visual effects, and other things all put together to make a video interesting, funny, confusing, or even intentionally annoying. The following are some of the different types of Poopism...

2023 August 24, Travis Boylls, “How to Make a YouTube Poop”, in WikiHow:

Any of the editing techniques used in YouTube poop videos.


main page

→ Japanese: メインページ (mein pēji)

→ Korean: 메인 페이지 (mein peiji)

Several reports on user behavior indicate that website visitors like hypertext links, and often choose these before anything on the main menu. However, if there are no hyperlinks on the main page, visitors are forced to study the menu more closely.

2000, Eric L. Reiss, Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites, Harlow: Addison Wesley, →ISBN, page 125:

MySpace has since expanded options to allow up to the Top 40 friends to be displayed on the main page of your profile.

2011, Fran Vincent, MySpace™ for Musicians: The Comprehensive Guide to Marketing Your Music Online, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Course Technology, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 161:

Comments determine whether a post gets a high ranking on Reddit’s main page.

2014, Brian Carroll, Writing and Editing for Digital Media, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, →ISBN, page 271:


From the chat Arabic spelling of transliterated Arabic عَرَبِيزِيّ (ʕarabīziyy), blend of عَرَبِيّ (ʕarabiyy, “Arabic”) + إِنْكْلِيزِيّ (ʔinglīziyy, “English”).

blend

إِنْكْلِيزِيّ


APNIC

Asia Pacific Network Information Centre
w:APNIC

(Internet) Initialism of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre.


RIR

Regional Internet registry
w:Regional Internet registry

(Internet) Initialism of Regional Internet registry.


AFRINIC

African Network Information Centre
w:AFRINIC

(Internet) Initialism of African Network Information Centre.


LACNIC

(Internet) Initialism of Latin America and Caribbean Network Information Centre.


refriend

en-verb

refriend (third-person singular simple present refriends, present participle refriending, simple past and past participle refriended)

refriends (present singular third-person)
refriending (participle present)
refriended (participle past)
refriended (past)

(social media, transitive) To add again to one's list of friends (e.g. on a social networking website).


depeer

depeer (third-person singular simple present depeers, present participle depeering, simple past and past participle depeered)

depeers (present singular third-person)
depeering (participle present)
depeered (participle past)
depeered (past)

(Internet, transitive) To remove as a peer; to cease to exchange network traffic with.


scary devil monastery

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I pull on a fresh pair of black heans, a faded Scary Devil Monastery tee shirt, and a pair of rubber-soled socks: I feel much better immediately. It's as if my brain is slowly rebooting, just like the Media Center PC.

2010, The Jennifer Morgue, Charles Stross:

(Internet slang, humorous) The newsgroup alt.sysadmin.recovery.


NAFO

North Atlantic Fella Organization
w:North Atlantic Fella Organization

(Internet, geopolitics) Initialism of North Atlantic Fella Organization.


skibidi

skibidi (third-person singular simple present skibidis, present participle skibiding, simple past and past participle skibidied)

skibidis (present singular third-person)
skibiding (participle present)
skibidied (participle past)
skibidied (past)

From skibidi (“a nonlexical vocable used in scat singing”). The jocular nonsense word is derived from the YouTube web series Skibidi Toilet (2023–present), which took the vocable from the 2022 song "Dom Dom Yes Yes" by Bulgarian singer Biser King. It was originally used (albeit still humorously) by younger children who viewed the series, incidentally part of Generation Alpha, and later popularised online as an ostensible example of "brain rot". Compare the later gegagedigedagedago.

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You gotta be skibiding me

2023 October 22, @HartsyProtzy, Twitter:

Retweet if you love skibiding your toilet to this tweet

2023 December 9, @Alterra_Corp_, Twitter:

She skibidied so hard on my toliet that I rizzed her gyatt till she fanum taxed my chungus

You lost your privilege to call me pookie when you skibidied on my Ohio cake

Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha#English

(Internet slang, humorous, transitive, intransitive) To use a nonsense word, especially to mock, or in reference to, the perceived slang utilized by Generation Alpha, the generation itself, the Skibidi Toilet web series or (less commonly) to use the slang encountered on the video-sharing social media platform TikTok.


deinfluencer

(social media, marketing, neologism) One who deinfluences (posts material that encourages people to avoid a particular product or service, or to consume less in general).


deinfluence

deinfluence (third-person singular simple present deinfluences, present participle deinfluencing, simple past and past participle deinfluenced)

deinfluences (present singular third-person)
deinfluencing (participle present)
deinfluenced (participle past)
deinfluenced (past)

(social media, marketing, neologism) To post material that encourages people to consume less, as the opposite of an influencer.

(social media, marketing, neologism) To post material that draws attention to the downsides of a particular product or service and may recommend alternatives.


Atwood's Law

Coined by American software developer, author, blogger and entrepreneur Jeff Atwood in 2007 (see quotation below).

coinage

This was later codified in a more formal W3C document, The Rule of Least Power. I propose a corollary to this rule, which in the spirit of recent memes, I'll call Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

2007 July 17, Jeff Atwood, “The Principle of Least Power”, in Coding Horror, archived from the original on 2024-02-07:

Since that time, web developers have produced nearly every type of application, including full-blown, cloud-based office suites (see Zoho.com), social APIs like Facebook's JavaScript SDK, and even graphically intensive video games. ¶ All of this is serving to prove Atwood's Law (http://bit.ly/1pFCjtR): "Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."

2014, Eric Elliott, Programming JavaScript Applications, Sebastopol, C.A.: O'Reilly, →ISBN, page 2:

(programming, humorous) A tongue-in-cheek "law" of software development stating that "any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript."


time to live

(Internet, networking) A mechanism which limits the lifespan or lifetime of data in a computer or network.


breadcrumb navigation

(Internet, computing) A webbased trail allowing a user to follow forwards or backwards to in order to assist navigating through a website.


Rose Twitter

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In reference to the rose emoji (🌹), used as a symbol of democratic socialism.

Elon Musk's dime-store political philosophizing at the expense of rose Twitter is not that important, even if he is an influential, powerful guy.

2018 June 18, Jordan Weissmann, “Elon Musk Is Trying to Redefine Socialism as ... Capitalism”, in Slate, New York, N.Y.: The Slate Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

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:

Also, I give AOC another 2-3 years before Rose Twitter turns on her for compromising to get things done.

2020 December 28, u/ballmermurland, “The only form of bipartisanship in the US”, in Reddit, r/neoliberal:

But DSAers saw the move as a betrayal. The reproach was almost immediate, with some on "Rose Twitter" (DSA members often signify their membership by adding a rose emoji to their name) declaring [Andre] Vasquez a failure and saying he would face a challenger in 2023.

2021 February 18, A.D. Quig, “City Council's socialists see themselves as an antidote to the status quo”, in Crain's Chicago Business, Chicago, I.L.: Crain Communications, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC:

I just want to point out for the trolls here how INSANE the idea is that the FBI is some secret socialist deep state tool to defend the radical liberal agenda. Like, have you ever met an FBI agent?? Those guys and gals don't exactly live on rose twitter

2022 August 11, u/ASlockOfFeagulls, “Discussion Thread: Attorney General Garland Makes a Statement to the Media at 2:30 p.m. Eastern”, in Reddit, r/politics:

democratic socialists
democratic socialist#Noun

(Internet slang) The community of democratic socialists on Twitter.


r/woooosh

From r/woooosh, a subreddit (discussion forum) on the American social news aggregation and discussion website Reddit in which Redditors post about Internet users who misinterpreted sarcastic statements as earnest, i.e. the joke went over their head. The subreddit name is thus taken from the onomatopoeia whoosh, representing the sound of a joke ostensibly flying over one's head. On Reddit, subreddits can be converted into hyperlinks by typing out their name in full, preceded by r/.

my friend you need some lessons in sarcasm
r/woooosh

They're laughing at you not getting the joke man. r/woooosh

2019 February 17, @sheldon_daily, Twitter:

I'm sorry but r/woooosh

Hopefully you GET it's a JOKE cuz r/woooosh

r/woooosh never been on twitter before?

(Internet slang, metonymically) Synonym of whoosh.


GSSAPI

(Internet) Initialism of Generic Security Services Application Program Interface.


SPNEGO

(Internet) Abbreviation of Simple and Protected GSSAPI Negotiation Mechanism.


good article

From good + article. Originates from online wiki and encyclopedia Wikipedia, 2005.

(wiki jargon) A content entry on an online wiki that has been peer-reviewed by the wiki's users (editors) as being of proficient or exceptional quality, worthy of a separate classification/designation above regular articles.


sentence mix

en-verb

sentence mix (third-person singular simple present sentence mixes, present participle sentence mixing, simple past and past participle sentence mixed)

sentence mixes (present singular third-person)
sentence mixing (participle present)
sentence mixed (participle past)
sentence mixed (past)

Well, someone went through the effort of making a text file transcript of Dennis Prager videos (for the convenience of YTPers looking for particular phrases to sentence-mix, so they didn't have to sit through all of the neocon BS just to find a clip).

It owes its existence to a feral culture of internet goblins who sentence-mixed the same few janky cutscenes for years.

2023 July 13, Harvey Randall, “The internet shitposted too close to the sun, and now we're getting a spiritual successor to the most cursed Zelda games of all time”, in PC Gamer:

They may contain random chopping, extremely loud audio manipulation, sentence mixing/word splicing, visual jokes, colorful and eye-popping visual effects, and other things all put together to make a video interesting, funny, confusing, or even intentionally annoying.

(Internet, transitive) To rearrange words and sounds in a speech recording as to change its meaning, usually for humorous purposes.


sentence mix

I loved hearing the rhymes and the character in this song, it's one of the best sentence mixes I've heard.

2014 June 21, u/SlayerOfCupcakes, Reddit:

(Internet) A piece of media resulting from sentence mixing.


chmobik

Borrowed from Russian чмо́бик (čmóbik), itself a blend of чмо (čmo, “scoundrel”) + мо́бик (móbik, “poorly-trained Russian conscript soldier”), as if an abbreviation of части́чно мобилизо́ванный (častíčno mobilizóvannyj, “partially-mobilized”); itself a reference to the term части́чная мобилиза́ция (častíčnaja mobilizácija, “partial mobilization”) used by Russian media when referring to the 2022 Russian mobilization for the invasion of Ukraine.

abbrev

части́чно мобилизо́ванный

Chmobiki are russian citizens who were mobilized as a result of partial mobilization in russia in September 2022.

2022 October 3, Ihor Zhdanov, Interfax-Ukraine:

The Russian Army orders the Chmobik to fight using only shovels. I present to you the Second World Army.

2023 February 2, u/sillyangel1945, Reddit:

A ChMobik was tied to a tree by his commander for refusing to enter battle. when he was released, he wrote a letter to high command reporting the incident.

(informal, derogatory, Internet, military, sometimes humorous) A Russian soldier conscripted during the 2022 Russian mobilization.

2022 Russian mobilization
Russian invasion of Ukraine


necroposter

(slang, Internet) A person who necroposts.


newspost

Surf’nRexx is a package of 18 REXX functions in one DLL for performing various Internet activities such as sending and receiving mail or newsposts, retrieving web pages, and, of course, transferring files via FTP.

1997 June, Michael Norton, “Innoval’s Surf’nRexx”, in Amy B. Novotny, editor, Technical Support, volume 5, number 6, Oak Creek, Wis.: Technical Enterprises, Inc., page 67, column 2:

Select the type of newsfeed: inbound and outbound, inbound only, or outbound only. You also need to specify the type of feed: push or pull. “Push” means you wait for incoming to be sent to you; “pull” means at a scheduled interval you go and grab the newsposts off of the news server. Click Next.

1999, John Savill, The Windows NT and Windows 2000 Answer Book: A Complete Resource from the Desktop to the Enterprise, Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, page 754:

7.00pm Collect e-mail and newsposts. Sit and read, reply to them and so on. Time for a quick computer game – Final Fantasy VIII or Tomb Raider III.

2000, Brian Dutton, quoting Marc, Media Studies: An Introduction, 3rd edition, Harlow, Essex: Longman, →ISBN, page 5:

Fill prefixes are a way of putting a certain string of characters at the beginning of each line in a paragraph or a file. Developers will immediately think of comments as a potential fill prefix. When writing email or newsposts, email programs often insert a string to help readers distinguish the threads of a discussion.

2005, Debra Cameron, James Elliott, Marc Loy, Eric [Steven] Raymond, Bill Rosenblatt, Learning GNU Emacs: A Guide to the World’s Most Extensible, Customizable Editor, 3rd edition, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 183:

But now…I just turn on my newsreader I’ve got like seven hundred blogs that I subscribe to and it trickles down and I say let me just search these newsposts about this particular article that I’m supposed to blog about, and I find about twenty or thirty of them.

2009, Kristina Schneider, quoting Mark, “[Case studies] Case 4 – Mark”, in Edublogging: A Qualitative Study of Training and Development Bloggers, Montreal, Que.: Acorda Press, →ISBN, page 92:

This book also has many excerpts from the newspost, which is kind of new. I’ve dropped them in on occasion before, especially if it was something of an extended nature, but this is the first time I’ve grabbed great handfuls of stuff and said “I like that” without feeling the need to resort to some kind of ironic dismissal. Recall that for the first several years of the site, I didn’t even archive the newsposts: I just deleted that field out of the HTML and started fresh.

2012 September 17, Tycho Brahe [pseudonym; Jerry Holkins], “Intro 9”, in Passion’s Howl (Penny Arcade; 9), Portland, Ore.: Oni Press, Inc., published 2013, →ISBN:

Your Internet connection leaves a trail of sorts that becomes imprinted on all of your online activities. This fingerprint is foremost your IP address. Browser web page requests (and your browser’s cookies), web search history, email messages, social media posts, chat sessions, torrent file-sharing traffic and Usenet newsposts will normally all leave behind remnants of your IP address in one way or another. […] Like other elements of the Internet, Usenet requires its own primary app (called a newsreader) and has its own terminology. Your newsreader app accesses a news server which contains newgroups^([sic]) which further contain messages (called newsposts, posts or articles).

2015, Matthew Bailey, Complete Guide to Internet Privacy, Anonymity & Security: How to Prevent Online Tracking and Profiling; Be Safe from Hackers, Snoops and Surveillance; Avoid Censorship; and Be Anonymous Online, Nerel, →ISBN, pages 16 and 167:

(Internet) A message posted to a newsgroup.


thin content

In addition to improper code, there are other content-related issues, like duplication or thin content, that can also hold back rankings and SEO performance

2023, Matthew Edgar, Tech SEO Guide: A Reference Guide for Developers and Marketers Involved in Technical SEO, Apress, →DOI, →ISBN, page 43:

(SEO) Pages on a website that contain little or no useful information.


PokéTuber

Jubilee’s labor during her live streams is particularly attention economy and self-branding based. She has made a name for herself as one of the most popular women Pokétubers (sobriquet given for YouTubers who create Pokémon content).

2019 August 14, Nicholas-Brie Guarriello, “Never give up, never surrender: Game live streaming, neoliberal work, and personalized media economies”, in New Media & Society, volume 21, number 8, Sage Journals, →DOI, →ISSN:

These PokéTubers have amassed massive followings thanks to their likable personality, knowledge of the franchise, and consistency of quality and quantity.

2021 September 28, David Caballero, “10 Most Popular PokéTubers, Ranked By Subscribers”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-11-05:

(fandom slang) A YouTube personality who makes videos about Pokémon.


scrollytelling

(Internet) Storytelling enriched with multimedial elements triggered while scrolling down a webpage.


COOP

(Internet, Web) Initialism of cross-origin opener policy.


COEP

(Internet, Web) Initialism of cross-origin embedder policy.


Abbreviation of follow for follow, substituting for for the number which is pronounced the same; itself clipped from follow for a follow or follow for a follow back. Compare sub4sub.

(Internet slang) On social media services, the practice of following a user's account in exchange for said person to follow one's account back, usually with the goal of artificially inflating one's follower count.


Abbreviation of like for like, itself a clipping of like for a like back or a similar phrasing; otherwise analysable as like (“to show approval of something posted on the Internet by marking it with a vote”) + 4 (“abbreviation of for”) + like.

compound

(Internet slang) On social media services, the practice of liking a person's post or page in exchange for said person mutually liking one's post or page back, sometimes with the goal of artificially inflating one's like count.


Abbreviation of subscribe for a subscription back or a similar phrasing, otherwise analysable as sub (“a subscription”) + 4 (“abbreviation of for”) + sub (“a subscription”). Compare follow4follow.

Similar to those who subscribe to everyone, secretly hoping those users will subscribe back, we have the Sub4Sub^([sic]) users. Sub4Sub users blatantly tell you they will subscribe to you if you subscribe to them.

2008, Alan Lastufka, Michael W. Dean, YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts, O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 170:

@EdddyyTv I don't get how you're growing so fast? Got any tips? please don't say sub4sub though or i will cry haha

2012 December 30, @AynsleyTravel, Twitter:

Sub4sub doesn't get you any actual viewers. Subscribers are not equal to viewers. You want viewers who will actually watch your videos, and that's what's important. Sub4sub people will probably not watch your channel, just like you probably won't watch theirs.

2017 February 5, u/Asuko_XIII, “Can someone help me understand how sub4sub is bad?”, in r/letsplay, Reddit:

A video maker named Ontus (his YouTube channel name) was a white man who posted a video entitled sub4sub? on YouTube on March 28, 2008. He characterizes the practice as "brilliant" and "awesome" because, if executed widely, it could provide a "launch pad" of subscribers and facilitate meeting new people.

2019, Patricia G. Lange, Thanks for Watching: An Anthropological Study of Video Sharing on YouTube, University Press of Colorado, →ISBN, page 123:

Requesting subscribers in exchange for subscribing to other channels, commonly known as "sub4sub," is a violation of YouTube's guidelines.

2023, B. Vincent, YouTube Hacks: Secrets to Boost Your Views and Engagement, RWG Publishing, page 22:

(Internet slang) On the video-sharing service YouTube, the practice of subscribing to a person's channel in exchange for said person mutually subscribing back to one's channel, often with the goal of artificially inflating one's subscriber count.


Wikigroaning

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Blend of Wikipedia + groaning. Coined by Jon Hendren in a 2007 post on Something Awful (see quotation below).

We go Wikigroaning on the SA forums from time to time and feel confident enough to share the fruits of our latest outing with the public. We're pretty proud of some of these. Enjoy!

2007 June 5, Jon Hendren, “The Art of Wikigroaning”, in Something Awful, archived from the original on 2024-01-14:

The superabundance of less-than-prized information on the site has led to a phenomenon called "wiki-groaning," which involves comparing the length of seemingly disparate articles to humorous effect. Lightsaber Combat beats out Modern Warfare, for example, and John Locke, the character from the TV show "Lost," edges out the other John Locke, whoever he was.

2008 March 16, Noam Cohen, “Start Writing the Eulogies for Print Encyclopedias”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-26:

And then there is the point made by wiki-groaning, the practice of comparing the length of Wikipedia articles to comic effect. For example "Lightsaber Combat" beats out "Modern Warfare."

2010 September 5, Ced Kurtz, “TechMan: Falling encyclopedia book sales squeeze publishers”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh, P.A.: Block Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-04-05:

It is true, as commentators on Wikigroaning have often observed, that the often ludicrous disproportion of trivial Wikipedia articles does not undermine the authority of more substantive articles because there is no shortage of bytes in the Wikipedia universe.

2014, Thomas Leitch, Wikipedia U: Knowledge, Authority, and Liberal Education in the Digital Age, Baltimore, M.D.: Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 77:

(neologism, humorous) The act of comparing two similar Wikipedia articles, one considered generally useful and the other primarily appealing to nerdy interests, and observing that (to one's disappointment) the latter is significantly longer and more professionally written.

Family
Family Guy
Something Awful
Storm (Marvel Comics)
Thunderstorm


reputation system

en-noun

reputation system (plural reputation systems)

(Internet) A program or algorithm that allows users to rate each other in online communities in order to build trust through reputation.


manfluencer

Blend of man + influencer, equivalent to man + -fluencer. Lexicalized within academic parlance by Swiss-German political scientist Regula Stämpfli in a podcast 2022-12-31 shortly after Andrew Tate’s arrest in Romania, as recognized by herself, after marketing lingo dated to the Corona year 2020 to designate a counterpart to emerging female brand influencers.

coinage

as part of an emerging research agenda on the implications of responses to manfluencer culture in education settings, we suggest a particular focus on the extent, form and effect of school leadership’s responses to this phenomenon.

2023 December 17, Stephanie Wescott, Steven Roberts, Xuenan Zhao, “The problem of anti-feminist ‘manfluencer’ Andrew Tate in Australian schools: women teachers’ experiences of resurgent male supremacy”, in Gender and Education, volume 36, number 2, →DOI, pages 167–182:

“These ‘manfluencers’ propagate a lot of the same kind of red-pill ideas, the same kind of theories from evolutionary psychology. […]

2024 August 14, Vittoria Elliott, “Gamergate’s Aggrieved Men Still Haunt the Internet”, in WIRED:


hyperimage

(Internet, rare) Any image that contains a hyperlink.


Yugituber

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Myutants, the new World Premiere Theme, have a solid chunk of their cards revealed courtesy of yugituber Ruggles.

2020 October 21, Deadborder, “[PHRA-EN] Myutants”, in YGOrganization, archived from the original on 2020-11-01:

With Yugituber Reveal Openings now out, it’s time to find out just what’s in the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh! Speed Duel GX: Duel Academy Box.

2022 March 11, Tinker, “[Speed Duel GX Box] The 8 Decklists”, in YGOrganization, archived from the original on 2022-05-26:

Yu-Gi-Tubers provide a constant stream of Yu-Gi-Oh! content, including analysis of new cards and archetypes, combo tutorials, and banlist breakdowns.

2022 September 11, Drew Heckman, “Why Yu-Gi-Oh!'s Fan-Made Community Is an Essential Resource for New Players”, in CBR, archived from the original on 2022-09-11:

(fandom slang) A YouTuber who makes videos about Yu-Gi-Oh!


RYMer

Shockingly, 72% of RYMers so far have answered white.

2012 September 10, Dean F., “From Rate Your Music: "Are your tastes more black or white?"”, in rec.music.rock-pop-r+b.1950s (Usenet):

who are some underrated RYMerz

2015 November 29, “ITT: Post cringe RYM accounts”, in 4chan, archived from the original on 2024-04-21:

I've cultivated a list of biological female RYMers for the past few years and there was a time when my daily ritual was checking all their profiles and marveling at their excellent taste, stalking their other social media and falling in hopeless love. Here are some:

2016 July 2, “RYM // Sonemic general”, in 4chan, archived from the original on 2024-04-21:

why aren’t there any japanese female rymers?

2019 May 23, 4chan, archived from the original on 2024-04-21:

As a heavy RYMer, I've been listening to nothing but D'Angelo for three days straight because of the RYM charts.

2023 April 24, u/Eihabu, Reddit, archived from the original on 2023-04-24:

As a final note, many books in there feature "mini-lists" in addition to the main list featured in each book. That RYMer did the complete job by posting the mini-lists in addition to the main lists, sorting them out clearly.

2024 January 26, Pierre, “The Westcoast/AOR bibles - Frédéric Slama (2017-2023)”, in Acclaimed Music Forums, archived from the original on 2024-04-21:

(Internet) A user of the website Rate Your Music.


Gransnetter

Last week, she [Ann Widdecombe] took part in a live webchat on Gransnet and revealed she thinks she probably won’t be remembered politically “at all”. […] Ann emphatically told Gransnetters she still believes in the death penalty, still thinks there’s no place for women priests in the church, declares positive discrimination “an insult to women”, reckons virginity is “underrated” and states that Maggie Thatcher was a far greater prime minister than David Cameron will ever be.

2012 June 17, Janet Street-Porter, “Fake Britain at the heart of Olympics”, in The Independent on Sunday, number 1,1163, London, page 13, column 4:

In fact we’ve worked out that, between them, gransnetters have 326,741* years’ experience in bringing up children, so they have had plenty of time to learn from their mistakes and accrue a fair bit of know-how along the way.

2013, Gransnet Limited, “Introduction”, in The New Granny’s Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Be the Best Gran, London: Vermilion, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:

The book [The New Granny’s Survival Guide] itself adopts an admirably light touch as it guides us through the potential minefield that is modern grannying. Lots of humour and real-life contributions from Gransnetters and, thank goodness, no lecturing. […] For instance, how much help should you, as a granny, give? One Gransnetter writes: “My son-in-law is very capable, so I am not needed from a practical point of view.[…]”

2013 September 21, Hilary Boyd, “The thoroughly modern gran”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 49,243, London, pages W1–W2:

Not surprisingly, research by Gransnet has found that while one in six grandparents have taken early retirement or quit paid employment to help out with their children, 80 per cent of them say their sacrifice is worth it,[…]. Here’s what some of the grandmas and grandads that use Gransnet forums say: […] Expectations or not being able to say no – Gransnet editor Lara Crisp explains: “Some Gransnetters volunteered or agreed to look after their first grandchild, then another arrived, then their other children had a couple, so they felt they couldn’t say no to help them out.[…]”

2017 October 25, “Half-term: 10 advantages and disadvantages of relatives’ childcare / What do you get out of the need for ‘granny childcare’?”, in Witney Gazette, Witney, Oxon: Newsquest, page 45, column 3:

(Internet) A member of Gransnet, a London-based sister website to Mumsnet for users over 50 years old.


hashtagify

en-verb

hashtagify (third-person singular simple present hashtagifies, present participle hashtagifying, simple past and past participle hashtagified)

hashtagifies (present singular third-person)
hashtagifying (participle present)
hashtagified (participle past)
hashtagified (past)

(transitive, neologism, informal, Internet) To render or turn (something) into a hashtag.


unexpected red theory

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First gained popularity on the social media platform TikTok in January 2024. Coined by Taylor Migliazzo Simon in early 2024.

Of course, the other essential part of the “unexpected red theory” is the unexpected — the element of surprise.

2024 February 24, Ingrid Fetell Lee, “The science behind the “unexpected red theory””, in The Aesthetics of Joy:

(social media, design, fashion, neologism) A trend in interior design based on the idea that any room will appear more attractive if one adds a red item or feature to it, especially if the red item appears unusual or mismatches the other colors in the room.


lazy girl job

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Coined by author and social media influencer Gabrielle Judge in 2023.

coinage

[Gabrielle] Judge says a lazy girl job looks slightly different to everyone, because each worker has their own unique circumstances and needs.

2023 July 26, Bashirat Oladele, “How the 'lazy girl job' took over work TikTok”, in BBC News:

“There’s nothing lazy about expecting a job that pays you well, gives you good work-life balance and doesn’t overwork you. And no one in a lazy girl job is actually lazy”

2023 August 1, Angela Yang, quoting Gabrielle Judge, “‘Lazy girl jobs’ are trending in rally against burnout culture”, in NBC News:

Working a "lazy girl" job doesn't mean Gen Z workers are slacking off. Rather, they're rejecting hustle culture for well-paying, flexible jobs that end right at 5 p.m.

2023 October 18, Paola Peralta, “What the 'lazy girl job' trend says about Gen Z's mental health”, in Employee Benefit News:

If the post-pandemic decline in the appeal of “hustle culture” and “leaning in” laid bare structures of worker exploitation, the rise of trends such as “bare minimum Mondays”, “lazy girl jobs” and “act your wage” are manifestations of a resentment in search of articulation.

2024 May 18, “Loud quitting: Catharsis, breakdown”, in Indian Express, Mumbai:

You can think of it as financial education for the "lazy-girl job" generation — those who decry the corporate hustle and seek out low-stress jobs that don't take over their lives.

2024 August 12, Emilie Friedlander, “Gen Zers are investing their way out of the 9-to-5”, in Business Insider, US edition:

(social media, business, technology, neologism) A job that is well paid, does not demand long hours or too much effort, and can often be done remotely.


lucky girl syndrome

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Attested from the 2020s, popularized by TikTok influencers.

The latest trend to sweep through the social media world is known as “Lucky Girl Syndrome”, or LGS.[…] LGS is a combination of manifesting and the law of attraction; it involves repeating mantras such as “Great things are always happening to me unexpectedly” in order to attract positive outcomes into one’s life.

2021 October 6, Audrey Sawyer, “The Pros and Cons of Lucky Girl Syndrome”, in Thriving Guide, archived from the original on 2024-05-20:

The trend surged around New Year, and since then the main #Luckygirlsyndrome hashtag has had more than 80 million views. It's a spin on manifestation, the belief that positive thinking will help you to achieve your goals.

2023 January 14, Riyah Collins, “Lucky Girl Syndrome: Smug TikTok trend or life-changing positivity?”, in BBC:

So if you want to reap the benefits of Lucky Girl Syndrome, by all means, reframe the way you view yourself and your goals, just don't act like reality can be rigged by day dreaming.

2023 February 14, Flora Gill, “The dangers of ‘Lucky Girl Syndrome’”, in Evening Standard, page 19:

In general, Lucky Girl Syndrome is a long-standing idea with a trendier, rebranded name.

[2023 March 16, Dr. Albers, “‘Lucky Girl Syndrome’ Isn’t the Antidote To Bad Luck, but It Can Help Challenge Negative Thinking”, in Cleveland Clinic Health Essentials:

(social media, neologism) The idea that one can make good things happen simply by imagining them happening and believing one is lucky.


conversational commerce

natural language processing
natural language processing

artificial intelligence
artificial intelligence

(Internet, business) E-commerce done via various means of conversation (live support on e-commerce web sites, online chat using messaging apps, chatbots on messaging apps or websites, voice assistants) and using technology such as: speech recognition, speaker recognition, natural language processing and artificial intelligence.


kittenfishing

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Blend of kitten + catfishing. The word kitten is used because it is regarded as a less severe form of catfishing. Coined in an article by dating app Hinge published on June 21, 2017.

To be fair, I catfished using my own non-pregnant photos so perhaps kittenfishing would be more apt. MTV, feel free to call me to discuss the concept further.

2018, Amy Nickell, Confessions of a Single Mum: What It's Like When You're Expecting The Unexpected, Headline Publishing Group, page 53:

Unfortunately, while kittenfishing is generally considered less ‘serious’ a dating app offence as catfishing (where you pretend to be an entirely different person completely), it can still be damaging, and pretty manipulative; indeed, you will feel duped and deceived when going on a date with somebody who has been telling little white lies from the beginning.

2021 December 20, Rebecca Fearn, “Kittenfishing is the new dating trend doing the rounds, but what exactly is it? And are we guilty of doing it ourselves?”, in Glamour, archived from the original on 2024-04-30:

Its strange how ghosting, kittenfishing or orbiting in today’s times is so common personally, I also dislike all the modern things like cushioning, zombieing, and breadcrumbing. I believe modern dating terminology is perplexing and complicated.

2021, Jyoti Patel, The Awakening - Unheard. Undiscovered. Untold., Jyoti Patel, page 45:

(neologism, social media) The practice of presenting oneself in a more favorable or exaggerated light on dating apps or social media.


cornplate

en-verb

cornplate (third-person singular simple present cornplates, present participle cornplating, simple past and past participle cornplated)

cornplates (present singular third-person)
cornplating (participle present)
cornplated (participle past)
cornplated (past)

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Compound of corn + plate; coined by Twitter user teyaミ☆ (@camascamshafts) in October 2022 in reference to a tweet about a scene from the film Encanto in which the character Dolores Madrigal briefly holds a plate of corn.

Keep in mind that not every instance of digging deep into small details is cornplating: sometimes, there can be interesting things hidden in the background!

2023 July 21, Philipp Kachalin, “What Does 'Cornplate' Mean? The Slang Word About Obsessing Over Minuscule Details Explained”, in Know Your Meme, retrieved 2024-04-30:

[T]he next time you find yourself captivated by the smallest details of a book, movie, or historical event, remember that cornplating is, in a a way, a testament to our passion and the depth of our curiosity.

2023, Daniela Bogoricin, LinkedIn, retrieved 2024-04-30:

By the way, Will 100% recognized Brenner here. If y'all are going to cornplate Mike's microexpressions I need y’all to do the same here because it’s clear as day!

2024 April 29, danceonth3moon, Twitter, retrieved 2024-04-30:

(fandom slang, humorous) To discuss or scrutinize insignificant or inconsequential details in media.


Googley

en-adj

Googley (comparative more Googley, superlative most Googley)

more Googley (comparative)
most Googley (superlative)

[…] emerging as a leader to whom others look for advice on what is “Googley.”

2015, Laszlo Bock, Work Rules!, Twelve, →ISBN, page 53:

Even as an intern, I was allowed to treat two guests a month to the free food and facilities. No one really cared if you went over; it was an honour system in which everyone was expected to be appropriately Googley.

2020, Wendy Liu, Abolish Silicon Valley:

In a book on management, Laszlo Bock, Google's longtime HR boss, wrote that the company hired for “Googley” traits: humility, conscientiousness, and “comfort with ambiguity.” Being willing to plunge down a slide at work without shame—that's Googley. Being Googley had a motto: “Don't politick. Use data.”

2022, Mark Bergen, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, Penguin, →ISBN:

(business slang) Characteristic of Google, especially in reference to its company culture.


facepile

graphical user interface
graphical user interface

(graphical user interface, Internet) A stack of images (photographs, initials, etc.) each representing a person.


Porn 2.0

From porn (“pornography”) + 2.0 (“a second major version of something”), by analogy with Web 2.0 (“the second generation of the World Wide Web, especially the movement away from static webpages to dynamic and shareable content, social networking, and online collaboration”).

compound

(Internet, slang) The generation of pornographic websites on the Internet hosting user-generated (amateur) content, in contrast to the Web 1.0 generation of largely static webpages and ostensibly professional pornography.


Porn 3.0

From porn (“pornography”) + 3.0 (“a third major version of something”), one above Porn 2.0 (“the generation of pornographic websites on the Internet hosting user-generated (amateur) content”); coined by analogy with Web 3.0 (“the predicted third generation of the World Wide Web”).

Porn 3.0? Sounds simple enough […] might the next branch in this sultry business evolution come from small companies funded by other porn enthusiasts? If so, what will it look like? Will it take the form of highly advanced sensory technology, surround sound audio or greater use of face-to-face video technology (though the latter possibility is not exactly state of the art)?

2012 August 13, Karsten Strauss, “Crowdfunding Porno-style”, in Forbes:

This Kickstarter for porn allows users to "find, support and create" projects for "fetish communities" and, therefore, sexual minorities. What some already refer as "Crowdsexing" or "Porn 3.0" might be the next level for post-pornography.

2013 October 7, Matthieu Foucher, Gizem Ezgi Akdag, “Porn 3.0”, in Masters of Media, University of Amsterdam:

Porn 2.0 was all about user-participation, ease of access and an endless stream of content. These days we're too used to that; we need something more. Enter Porn 3.0. Now, you're no longer watching porn, you're in the porn. This is the metaverse. It's hard for me to write anything here that'll stand the test of time.

2024, Fiona Vera-Gray, “Future”, in Women On Porn: One Hundred Stories. One Vital Conversation, Penguin Random House, →ISBN, page 1 (of chapter):

(Internet, slang, rare) The hypothetical third generation of pornographic websites on the World Wide Web, often predicted to incorporate artificial intelligence, virtual reality, the metaverse and other physically immersive future technologies.


Pornhub

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From porn (“pornography”) + hub (“a central facility providing a range of related services”), so-called because the website hosts pornographic videos; but Pornhub was originally part of a parent company called Interhub upon its foundation, from which it thus possibly receives its name. Coined by founder Matt Keezer in May 2007.
The noun sense is derived from the prominence of Pornhub.

Sites like Pornhub, YouPorn and RedTube attract more users than TMZ and the Huffington Post. The porn sites are even bigger than Pirate Bay, the top portal for illegal downloads of movies, TV shows and music.

2009 August 10, Ben Fritz, “Tough times in the porn biz”, in Los Angeles Times, page B3:

Only 1 in 24,000 PornHub^([sic]) searches by men are explicitly for preteens; that may have something to do with the fact that PornHub,^([sic]) for obvious reasons, bans all forms of child pornography and possessing it is illegal.

2017, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 121:

With each horrifying news story lately, my husband has taken to asking, “Is it time for the abbey?” We talk about living in the (nonexistent) caretaker’s cottage, raising our son up in fresh air, far from the evils of corrupt politicians and Pornhub.

2017 December 21, J. Courtney Sullivan, “Get Me to a Nunnery”, in The New York Times:

“Girl, that nigga know he’s fine, damn!” […] “Juelz, girl, the things I would do to him can only be seen on Pornhub and Xvideos,” she laughed, I pretended to look to my right.

2019, Giselle Gates, Married to a New York Menace: He's the Sickest in the Game, Royalty Publishing House, →ISBN, page 52:

I’m surprised by how quickly I have become a home obsessive. I trawl Facebook Marketplace at every hour of the day for bargains, like a teenager who has just discovered Pornhub. All my targeted online ads have flipped from dating apps and activewear to rugs and midcentury dining tables I can’t possibly afford (but will definitely click on anyway).

2020 May 27, Josephine Tovey, “Our homes have become our whole world – and now I'm obsessed with changing mine”, in The Guardian:

A number of parents complained about the lesson to the school board, with one describing the sculpture [Michelangelo's David] as “pornographic”. […] By that thinking, I guess all the breasts and bottoms on display make the Sistine Chapel the Pornhub of the 16th century.

2023 March 27, Brad Emery, “Michelangelo a genius? No, just a filthy little boy”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

A second, untitled horror movie was described in Variety as “a late-night boat ride turns into a desperate fight for survival in New York City when a mischievous mouse becomes a monstrous reality”. Let’s hope PornHub^([sic]) doesn’t see an angle here.

2024 January 5, Emma Brockes, “Digested week: Abdication of Denmark’s queen continues to charm and entertain”, in The Guardian:

Recommender systems now rank, sort, filter, and suggest information to users, based on a range of data including user behavior and preferences. Pornhub has a "Recommended For You" section on their homepage as well as their "Recommended Categories" and "Recommended Porn Stars," where they direct users to particular videos, categories, and performers.

2024, Chibundo Egwuatu, Zahra Stardust, Mireille Miller-Young, Daisy Ducati, “Curating Desire: The White Supremacist Grammar of Tagging on Pornhub”, in Amir Baradaran, Denton Callander, Panteá Farvid, Thomas A. Vance, editor, Sexual Racism and Social Justice: Reckoning with White Supremacy and Desire, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 284:

(Internet, trademark) A pornographic video-sharing website.


zombieing

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(neologism, Internet, social media) The act or practice of ghosting someone and later returning unexpectedly without explanation or apology.


anti-haul

Most anti-haul videos are somewhere between 12 to 20 minutes long, and typically focus on beauty products. The host details a list of things they don't plan to buy and the reasons why not while detailing the often exorbitant prices. There are anti-hauls about Kylie Cosmetics, Sephora, Colourpop, Maybelline, and other brands.

2017 May 1, Mehreen Kasana, “Makeup vloggers are protesting capitalism”, in The Outline, archived from the original on 2024-05-07:

The anti-haul offers a simple premise: You don’t need that brushed metal sink rack or white Scrub Daddy for your kitchen, because you don’t have the same kitchen, house, or budget as the monied influencer who’s promoting them.

2024 January 18, Angella d'Avignon, “Deinfluencing, “Anti-Hauls,” and the Dupe Decor Conundrum”, in Dwell, archived from the original on 2024-05-07:

(Internet) A video posted on the Internet consisting of someone showing and talking about products or items they have chosen not to purchase.


bin store

A brick and mortar store selling only returned merchandise from e-commerce.


anituber

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Eight of the world's most popular anitubers (anime youtubers) took their drama off the page and screen and to the chessboard in the first-ever Tournament Arc. The event was won by Gigguk.

2020 August 11, Sam Copeland, “Protaganist Vanquishes Villain In Tournament Arc”, in Chess.com, archived from the original on 2024-05-08:

Having spent the past 9 years of my life being a quote-unquote “Anituber” (anime YouTuber) and the past two decades of my life watching every anime under the sun, Crunchyroll approached me to ask for my personal top 30 anime recommendations, alongside my fellow anituber friends Connor “CDawgVA” Colquhoun and Garnt “Gigguk” Maneetapho.

2021 December 8, “RECS: The Anime Man's Top 30 Anime (You Probably Haven't Seen)”, in Crunchyroll, archived from the original on 2024-05-08:

After another AniTuber, Totally Not Mark, recently faced off in a battle with Toei Animation over his own videos and managed to win after a major public outcry of support, it looks like a new legal strategy may even allow Toei to challenge his videos once more.

2022 February 3, Borealis Capps, “Anime YouTubers Face New Copyright Crisis - Fans Call For Geoblocking For All”, in Game Rant, archived from the original on 2022-02-06:

While there are lots of great old anime, it seems that one anituber isn’t a big fan of them. Recently, an anituber came under fire after saying in a new video that he never recommends watching 70s anime.

2022 November 17, Nicolo Manaloto, “Anituber Under Fire After ‘Never Recommend Watching 70s Anime’ Remark”, in Epicstream, archived from the original on 2024-05-08:

YouTube has become one of the centers for fan critics to share their evaluations of anime works. AniTubers are YouTube creators who emerged to focus on anime, anime-related works, and review anime films and series.

2023 October, Kaz Hayashi, William H. U. Anderson, editors, Anime, Philosophy and Religion, Vernon Art and Science, page 51:

(Internet) A YouTube videoblogger who reviews or discusses anime.


wikitime

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(computing, Internet, time) A time standard or timestamp used in Wikipedia and its affiliates, set to Greenwich Mean Time, and encoded as 24-hour time-day-month-year.


Hypertext Transfer Protocol

(Internet, networking) An application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.


Google effect

The tendency to forget information that can be found readily online by using Internet search engines.


dark post

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“The only way an ad isn’t a ‘dark post’ is if you’re promoting an organic News Feed post,” says Gary Coby, former director of advertising at the Republican National Committee, who worked on the Trump campaign. “It’s impossible to properly use the Facebook platform, to test or buy at scale, with just organic posts.”

2017 September 20, Michael Zumstein, “The Real Trouble With Trump's 'Dark Post' Facebook Ads”, in Wired, archived from the original on 2024-05-10:

(social media) A social media ad which doesn't appear on the poster's timeline.


data feed

en-noun

data feed (countable and uncountable, plural data feeds)

(computing, Internet) A mechanism for a user to receive updated data from data sources.


net.cop

Likely based on the way newsgroups's names are formed, especially those from the net.* hierarchy (e.g. net.games, net.general), the first Usenet hierarchy.

You're free to complain to the SA for brahms, but you should probably deal with the individual posting the offending material, instead of whining to the rest of the net about how YOU don't like x...@y.z.q because he uses dirty words. You're just what the world needs, another net.cop. Grow up, remember, we're all professionals here...

1986 November 23, Sea'n Byrne, “Abuses of the net”, in news.admin (Usenet):


Sakartvelo

Borrowed from Georgian საქართველო (sakartvelo).

bor+

(rare, Internet) A transcontinental country in the Caucasus region of Europe and Asia, on the coast of the Black Sea, often considered to belong politically to Europe. Official name: Georgia. Capital: Tbilisi.


net cop

usenet postings are in the public domain. i simply forwarded a posting to more public people. anyone writing something that will go in the public domain should be prepared to see his posting end up anywhere in that domain.
i sure don't consider myself a 'net cop'

1987 November 16, eric mading, “Eric M -- money where his mouth is ?”, in alt.flame (Usenet):

I would hate to be a sysop, joining to help people with technical problems so they can enjoy a game, and helping to host events, then to be put in the position of net cop. That would suck

1999 December 30, DOW_9er7Tango, “Sysop and the booting of people for language infractions.”, in microsoft.public.games.zone.fighterace (Usenet):

I didn't tell you what to say... only pointed out that as soon as you start playing net cop the conversation goes off the deep end. Act nice and you'll be treated that way. Make snide remarks and you get the same.

2004 December 26, Robert L. Bass, “Napco p3200 2 wire fire”, in alt.security.alarms (Usenet):


net-cop

The net-cop has spoken. But how do you differenciate between politicking and merely informing people about the facts under discussion. It seems to me that if *YOU* consider it politicking then it must be.

1990 May 5, Frank Korzeniewski, “Questions and Answers comp.unix.sco”, in news.groups (Usenet):

Lastly and for what it's worth, I want to say to everybody out there, that I DONT WANT TO SEE RULES IMPOSED ON THIS NEWSGROUP. I'm not a net-cop. I only want to come up with guidelines on what is a proper post in this newsgroup. If we actually do come up with some guidelines/FAQ, I will post it periodically.

1996 December 24, Howard Knight, “Discussion of "FAQ For Posting on alt.food.coffee"”, in alt.food.coffee (Usenet):

People are posting about them because they have an interest in them and it is bad manners to become a self-appointed net-cop in an effort to control the flow of information in the newsgroups regardless of how strongly you feel about it.

1998 December 22, David A. Roth, “[rec.music.makers.trumpet] Trumpet - FAQ”, in rec.answers (Usenet):


twitlist

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Have you ever had people you DON'T want to hear from? MEP has a twitlist system. Mail on the twitlist will be discarded and you will be issued a mail messaged indicating the twit(s) tried, and the dear twits will be mailed a friendly message from you at no extra charge.

1986 November 25, John Antypas, “MEP Info”, in net.sources (Usenet):

A lot of the sexual or other harrassment I've seen happen is delivered by private e-mail. Is there any mail software out there that allows a killfile/twitlist for your private mailbox?

1993 September 22, Gargravarr, “Apple's Dream for the Future: Communications”, in comp.sys.amiga.advocacy (Usenet):

WHOOOHOO!! My first Twit!! Congrads, you made it onto my twitlist. I never thought I would EVER use it!

1995 November 9, George Weinstein, “"Gooks" In Olympics”, in rec.martial-arts (Usenet):

By the way, I nominate this nilwit for the a.a twitlist. That's the only thing he's earned in his life, besides a raw asshole from takin' it from his savior a few times too often.

1998 September 5, Sterling Crowe, “Stategies for dealing with Atheists”, in aus.religion.christian (Usenet):

I was thinking we could maintain a "twitlist" like alt.atheism. I didn't bring this up before because of the hostile nature of this group, everyone would eventually be twitlisted. The christian trolls would twitlist all the non-christians and then vice-versa. However, Jerkel certainly needs some recognition so we could try this...

1998 November 28, Timothy Meyers, “Twitlisting”, in alt.religion.christian-teen (Usenet):


atom feed

(Internet) A type of web feed that uses the Atom Syndication Format and the Atom Publishing Protocol.