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A person with administrative control over a site, server or community.
The power to ban users, humorously imagined as a hammer.
Extremely bad, outrageous or wicked, often used with exaggerated humour.
Do not interact, used on profiles to set boundaries with certain users or topics.
Post or share extremely pessimistic predictions and negative commentary.
A secondary, more private Instagram account.
For You Page, the personalised recommendation feed on TikTok.
Get ready with me, a video format showing someone's preparation routine.
If you know, you know; a phrase suggesting that only people with shared experience will understand.
Someone who acts aggressively or bravely online but not necessarily in person.
A person who reads or watches an online community without posting.
A collection of memes posted together.
A moderator who manages an online community, or a modification to a game depending on context.
A mutual follower or online friend, especially on TikTok and X.
A person who follows you and whom you also follow.
Reply to a very old discussion and bring it back to the top of a forum.
One of my followers or friends, used to refer indirectly to someone online.
Outfit of the day.
The person who created the original post or discussion thread.
An opponent, enemy or rival, originating as a shortening of opposition.
A casual post containing a collection of loosely related photos.
A joking phrase demanding photographic proof of a claim.
A video framed from a particular point of view or imagined scenario.
An image used to express an emotion or response in online conversation.
A collection of screenshots or evidence kept for future disputes.
Trick someone into opening the music video for Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up.
A joking demand for evidence that an event or claim is real.
Deliberately absurd, low-quality or provocative online content; contains profanity.
Leave quickly or run away, an older playful word revived in younger online speech.
Block and immediately unblock someone to make them stop following without leaving them blocked.
A secondary social account used for frequent, casual or less polished posts.
An indirect social-media post criticising someone without naming them.
A connected series of online messages or posts.
Post something intentionally unclear so others wonder what happened or who it concerns.
A one-against-one competition or challenge.
As far as I know.
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