Race-baiting

Attempting to cloud logic and facts by appealing to emotion through false accusations of racial discrimination. A favorite spin tactic of politicians used to manipulate people of low intelligence.

Obama's rhetoric concerning the Zimmerman case was blatant race-baiting and an obvious attempt to divert public attention from the scandals of his administration.

by Who is John Gault August 30, 2013

Hoe baiting

When a guy in a relationship leads a single girl on to feel better about himself or to have a safety net if his relationship goes south. The female version of this is Joe baiting.

Friend: Don’t let yourself trapped in Hoe baiting. He will never leave her!

by Word Smyth December 3, 2018

Joe baiting

When a girl in a relationship leads a single guy on to feel better about herself or to have a safety net if her relationship goes south. The male version of this is Hoe baiting.

Friend: Don’t let her trick you into Joe baiting you! She’s using you!

by Word Smyth December 3, 2018

Sun Baiting

When you masturbate naked on a lawn chair in a public place

I was recently arrested for sun baiting

by Brokkake June 16, 2020

amen baiting

The strategy to push social media engagement by coming up with content meant to trigger a seemingly unconscious response to comment the word "amen", like or share.

This is typically seen amongst Filipino Facebook users and is something the foreign content creators who are fond of "pinoy baiting" content have not been capitalizing at the time of this writing.

Content creators and traditional media companies in the Philippines often use amen baiting content to boost their engagement as the dominantly Catholic social media capital of the world just can't help but comment "amen".

by QueenCityCebu.com April 6, 2021

file baiting

File baiting, or Discord baiting, is a phenomenon on Discord and similar social media platforms in which a file is presented as one of importance, but is typically porn or gore. Mobile devices are typically targeted as their file previews are considerably more limited than desktop devices.

Person 1: I’m so mad, that person was file baiting me
Person 2: Lol imagine

by stencilMASTER February 24, 2022

Religion Baiting

Where a large Youtube creator that has between 10k-7m subs would be using religion, to bait children into subscribing or liking his/her content, Which is very similar to Clickbaiting. They usually try to make a video where they have a character that is dressed up as a stereotypical Roblox slender, Then a Stereotypical Nun/Muslim. During the end of the video, large font saying " Like and subscribe if you love (insert Religion here)! " Is placed, and this either happens in Youtube shorts, or Tiktok.

"Yo! Have you seen the new Religion Baiting Youtuber? She's so cringe!"

by roblox6969669 August 23, 2023