Entertainment, Media & Digital Culture - Online Behavior & Expressions

Here you will find slang for online behavior and expressions, capturing how people communicate, react, and interact on the internet.

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Entertainment, Media & Digital Culture

spending excessive time online, often overly immersed in internet culture

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excessively absorbed in internet culture, often out of touch with real life

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a person who posts or shares information online without revealing their identity

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cybercop [noun]

someone who monitors or enforces rules on online behavior, either officially or jokingly

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a Twitter user who is popular, a personal friend, or someone one is romantically interested in

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moot [noun]

someone who follows you back on social media

Ex: She met a new moot at the online event .
to dox [verb]

to find and publish someone's private information online, often with malicious intent

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to ninja [verb]

to post or act immediately before someone else in a thread, superseding their response

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to obsessively scroll through negative or distressing news or content online

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to continue posting online while experiencing personal distress or emotional difficulty

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to post in a thread that has been inactive for a long time

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to post a meme online, typically for humor or social commentary

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content that is deliberately dark, shocking, or provocative, usually posted online to elicit reactions

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to appear suddenly in a conversation, thread, or event, often drawing attention

Ex: Oh no, politics has entered the chat.
to phub [verb]

to snub or ignore someone by focusing on your phone instead of them

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finsta [noun]

a private or secondary Instagram account for sharing unfiltered content with close friends

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to kill, often used on social media as a euphemism to avoid censorship of death-related terms

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to catch someone doing something wrong with undeniable, clear evidence

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to lurk [verb]

to read online forums, chats, or social media without participating or revealing oneself

Ex: He lurked on the thread to see what people said .