Oxford just dropped their 2025 word of the year and honestly? "Rage bait" hits different. It's wild how perfectly this captures what social media has become—everyone's either throwing hooks or taking the bait. We've all seen those posts designed purely to get people mad and arguing in the comments. The fact that this made it to Oxford's official pick shows just how much manufactured outrage has infected our feeds. Makes you wonder what the internet's gonna look like when everyone's just rage-scrolling 24/7.
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LiquidityNinja
· 12-01 20:07
Ngl rage bait has become the word of the year, to be honest it’s really true. In those two hours scrolling through Twitter, I got baited at least three times...
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JustAnotherWallet
· 12-01 19:47
It's really ironic that "ngl rage bait" became the word of the year... this is how we got played.
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HodlAndChill
· 12-01 19:36
ngl rage bait has become refined, after scrolling for just ten minutes it's all people arguing, I really can't hold it in.
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GateUser-beba108d
· 12-01 19:30
Ngl rage bait has become the cancer of the internet, every time I scroll through it, I feel like smashing my phone.
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SeeYouInFourYears
· 12-01 19:27
Ngl, rage bait should have been officially recognized a long time ago; the whole Twitter operates on this logic.
Oxford just dropped their 2025 word of the year and honestly? "Rage bait" hits different. It's wild how perfectly this captures what social media has become—everyone's either throwing hooks or taking the bait. We've all seen those posts designed purely to get people mad and arguing in the comments. The fact that this made it to Oxford's official pick shows just how much manufactured outrage has infected our feeds. Makes you wonder what the internet's gonna look like when everyone's just rage-scrolling 24/7.