To limit how much control a certain party/person has in a collective identity or activity. Usually carried out with undue pettiness or resentment. Instead of using their knowledge about a particular subject to improve their lives or help others, gatekeepers attain a sense of accomplishment by arbitrarily judging what is and isn't "real".
*A normal social media comment section*
A: "Who watches anime in DUB?? It's so cringe and sounds completely forced. I would know! I am studying to be a translator. I have been consuming Japanese media for over 25 years! I can tell you that the speech sounds wrong and ruins the personality of the characters!! If you were a real anime fan you would just watch SUB!!"
B: "Niggas be hating on their own language and gatekeeping ANIME. Subs are hard to watch when eating. I can only watch while eating food because I'm not a bum ass nigga with nothing to do besides beat my meat while hugging a life-size waifu pillow and managing my kittens on discord."
And thus, two members of the same community who could have been friendly toward each other are now enemies due to the consequences of gatekeeping.
A: "Who watches anime in DUB?? It's so cringe and sounds completely forced. I would know! I am studying to be a translator. I have been consuming Japanese media for over 25 years! I can tell you that the speech sounds wrong and ruins the personality of the characters!! If you were a real anime fan you would just watch SUB!!"
B: "Niggas be hating on their own language and gatekeeping ANIME. Subs are hard to watch when eating. I can only watch while eating food because I'm not a bum ass nigga with nothing to do besides beat my meat while hugging a life-size waifu pillow and managing my kittens on discord."
And thus, two members of the same community who could have been friendly toward each other are now enemies due to the consequences of gatekeeping.
by Coco-onthe-LoLo November 16, 2022
Get the Gatekeepingmug. I don’t really wanna tell you, it’s kinda my thing and I don’t really want other people to know about it. Nothing personal.
I’m don’t really think y’all need to know how to use it in a sentence, sorry. Gatekeeping is my thing.
by pinglenis March 22, 2024
Get the Gatekeepingmug. Gaslight gatekeep girlboss is a series of verbs that are meant to be seen as complementary toxic traits of a girlboss and are also known as the 'toxic g's'
Rachelle: "girl, you are like totally so gaslight gatekeep girlboss"
Stephanie: "girl, you are so right"
Stephanie: "girl, you are so right"
by Certified Girlboss December 8, 2023
Get the Gaslight gatekeep girlbossmug. The act of controlling participation in a certain group or culture, it is becoming increasingly common in the punk subculture where some "punks" claim that you can't be punk if you're conservative, despite not understanding that punk doesn't care about left or right, but it's more to do with challenging the status quo irrespective of who's in power. Long story short, it leans more towards anarchy. In the Metal Community, many individuals whi listen to extreme metal will call those who listen to glam metal or hard rock gay or say it's pussy music and those who listen to them are not allowed to listen to extreme metal. Myself personally, I like to have the best of all worlds.
Gatekeeping is for idiots.
by UltimateDoge March 18, 2025
Get the Gatekeepingmug. Hey man. It was a great time, until those gatekeepers that live across the street were just standing there. Just watching me go down on Nicole.
by Jimyee97 September 12, 2023
Get the Gatekeepersmug. You aren't more deserving of success than I am and you don't care that the retard is suceeding arbitrarily because his cock is fat do you?
Hym "Your commitment to pretending the gatekeeping is a response to ANYTHING OTHER THAN disparaging your religion is admirable. I may be a psychopathic narcissist but we are not as different as you like to pretend. Which is why the mental breakdown. This isn't a tantrum. I'm not a toddler. I SAID THAT ABOUT THE RETARD AND NOW YOU'RE ATTRIBUTING IT TO ME. I SAID HE WAS A TODDLER AND NOW YOU'RE ATTRIBUTING TO ME. I AM NOT THAT RETARD. And like heat, what I said does not apply in reverse. When I said I'd show him a temper tantrum I was obviously talking about the murdering of him in a fit of rage and not this thing I'm doing here. It's just pretending Jordan. Plugging your ears and chanting 'lalala can't hear you! Lalala!' Until I go away. It's ridiculous!"
by Hym Iam March 29, 2024
Get the Gatekeepingmug. A woman going back to her first because she doesn’t want to increase her body count. It’s about going out of your way and doing unusual things to maintain the body count digits—like tolerating toxic behavior, returning to the first after dating other men—just to avoid being called a “hoe” and to not sleep with the tenth man. Things like that.
by The Apotheosis September 15, 2025
Get the Bodycount Gatekeepingmug.