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A ghost tag is the act of tagging an account or channel in a social media post—most commonly an Instagram Story—in a way that preserves the tag’s functional behavior (ex: notifications, attribution, tappable link, or backend recognition) while making the tag visually imperceptible or intentionally hidden from the viewer.
Ghost tags allow creators or brands to credit, notify, or route engagement to an account without disrupting the visual composition of the content.
We typically avoid visible tags in our Instagram Stories, but we’re happy to ghost tag your account so you still share it to your Instagram Stories.
ghost tag by pdxp February 26, 2026
A ghost tag noun, verb is an account or channel mention (tag) in a social media post—most commonly an Instagram Story—that preserves the tag’s functional behavior (ex: notifications, attribution, backend recognition) while rendering the tag visually imperceptible or intentionally hidden from the viewer.
Ghost tags allow creators or brands to credit partners, route engagement, or enable tagged accounts to share or re‑gram content to their own Instagram Stories without disrupting the visual composition of the content.
First coined around 2019 by active industry users, the term emerged at a time when accounts could only share Instagram Story content to their own Story if they were explicitly tagged. The term has since become less widely used as Instagram expanded resharing access and introduced a native Mentions capability that allows accounts to be tagged without any visible, in‑frame text placement.
We typically avoid visible tags in our Instagram Stories, but we’re happy to ghost tag your account so you can still share our content to your own Story.
ghost tag by pdxp February 26, 2026

Gorilla Tag Ghost 

A Gorilla Tag Ghost is a Gorilla that is a bot that can kick, ban people, dox, etc. Usually these ghosts are made by hackers that want to provoke fear in people
Gorilla Tag Ghost by CranyLol December 20, 2024

Gorilla Tag Ghost 

A Gorilla tag ghost is a bot that can kick, ban, and sometimes dox people. Usually, gorilla tag ghosts are made by hackers that want to provoke fear in people.
That Gorilla Tag Ghost can ban you!
Gorilla Tag Ghost by CranyLol December 20, 2024

bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
Word of the Day on July 19, 2026
The word 'flag' as pronounced by people with thick Belfast accents. The term is a perfect encapsulation of the disproportionate and overblown reaction to the removal of the Union Jack (as in 'de fleg') from above City Hall in Belfast. Where previously it had flown for 365 days per year, it is now flown on 17 designated days of the year - in line with many other British cities.

The event caused a portion of the Protestant community ('fleggers') to make international pricks of themselves as they proceeded to wreck the fucking place, claiming it was another erosion of a 'British' identity they perceive to have been under attack since the horrifying spectre of equality reared its head in Northern Ireland.

The word 'fleg' - and indeed 'fleggers' - fittingly describes a section of humanity unconcerned with knowledge, reality or the vagaries of the English language. Like America's tea-baggers they are ruled by instinct, fear and paranoia with a side dish of rampant bigotry and startling ignorance of the world around them.
"Wat de fuck like! The taigs got de fleg took down! Let's wreck de fuckin place! No surrender!"

"De fleg has been took down! Before ye know it there'll be a united Ireland! Attack Short Strand! God Save The Queen!"
Fleg by OnionFleg August 9, 2013
Word of the Day on July 18, 2026