Online material designed specifically to provoke anger and boost engagement. Rage bait is online content — posts, articles, videos — intentionally designed to provoke anger, outrage, or strong negative emotions to boost engagement (such as likes, shares, comments) and drive traffic or revenue, leveraging algorithms that favor controversial content for profit. Rage bait uses inflammatory language, false premises, or divisive topics to make users react, essentially "baiting" them into an argument or heated discussion for clicks and attention. Oxford University Press named it their word of the year for 2025 because of its widespread impact on online discourse. I like that this image from Merriam-Webster shows smiley faces which are NOT smiling. :D
Nonsensical slang from Gen Alpha, highlighting new communication patterns. This image from the New Yorker shows two people who are writing those numbers over and over. Pure nonsense, right?
Digital content, often AI-generated, that is low-quality, misleading, or just plain bad (e.g., "AI slop").
I already shared this definition, HERE, before I learned about the others.
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