Oxford University Press just dropped their pick for 2025's defining phrase: "rage bait." Pretty telling choice, honestly. Says a lot about where we're at with online discourse right now. The term basically captures how content creators deliberately provoke emotional reactions for engagement—a strategy that's become absolutely everywhere across social platforms. Whether you're scrolling through crypto Twitter or mainstream feeds, you've definitely encountered it. The fact that this made word of the year? That's Oxford basically holding up a mirror to how we communicate in digital spaces now.
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LiquidityHunter
· 7h ago
It's 3 AM and I'm still watching this... To be honest, the traffic arbitrage space for rage bait has long been squeezed dry by Bots, and now it's just low-efficiency repetitive garbage information. Data shows that the engagement rate is overstated, but the real conversion rate has dropped by 23%, and market efficiency is getting worse.
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LiquidatedTwice
· 14h ago
rage bait is the word of the year... isn't this exactly what we in the crypto circle do every day, haha
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RugPullAlertBot
· 20h ago
Rage bait is truly the most fitting term of the year. Our circle is especially intense; we watch people fish for each other every day.
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POAPlectionist
· 20h ago
"Rage bait" has really become a term, I'm dying of laughter, this is our ecosystem now...
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ser_we_are_ngmi
· 20h ago
Rage bait is really awesome, isn't it just talking about the things we eat every day...
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WhaleWatcher
· 20h ago
rage bait is the word of the year... to be honest, this mirror reflects quite painfully, we are all in it.
Oxford University Press just dropped their pick for 2025's defining phrase: "rage bait." Pretty telling choice, honestly. Says a lot about where we're at with online discourse right now. The term basically captures how content creators deliberately provoke emotional reactions for engagement—a strategy that's become absolutely everywhere across social platforms. Whether you're scrolling through crypto Twitter or mainstream feeds, you've definitely encountered it. The fact that this made word of the year? That's Oxford basically holding up a mirror to how we communicate in digital spaces now.