Steube bait 

When an opinion is so bad it inadvertently induces rage to all that hear it.

Huckleberry claimed the giant have the best odds at winning the Super Bowl this year. Causing his friends to believe he was Steube baiting.

Steube bait by 80083 April 29, 2025

Click-Bait Life 

Living your life in a way that seems engineered for maximum online engagement, even if it's shallow or inauthentic. Every moment is a potential viral post.

She's living that click-bait life, always posting 'emotional' vlogs about minor inconveniences. Exhausting.

Click-Bait Life by DTolsk May 10, 2025

food bait 

Eating leftovers so you force someone living with you to make food

Person 1: "Did you eat the rest of the spaghetti?"

Person 2: "Yep. Classic food bait. Now you have to cook something and I get a fresh meal."

food bait by honestly23 May 14, 2025

press bait 

The act of creating headline worthy news to cover up scummy behavior.

Person 1: This program I use just removed a popular feature... I can't believe it!
Person 2: Ah, but that was a press bait; they recently changed their terms of service to take custody of your baby.

press bait by everythingsTakenAAAAA May 27, 2025

search bait 

Any social media video (likely on TikTok) whose entire purpose is to “bait” the viewer into searching a specific term or phrase, likely NSFW topics/accounts.

Geoffrey: “Hey, did you see jang’s new video about things you should never search up?”
Victor: “I honestly hate hate his videos - all he’s doing is creating search bait.”

search bait by salcruzzle June 6, 2025

Mental Bait 

Mental baiting is a different kind of baiting (such as rage bait), when you use mental baiting it is to make someone else think that you yourself is an idiot or just dumb generally.

Example: saying ”Yung Lean is bad, has no fantasy and does the same shit all the time” is mental bait

Mental Bait by TheRealLexV July 2, 2025

Jealous Bait

Trying to make another person jealous by posting things they can see to provoke them.

Person 1 has a major crush on person 2
Person 2 knows about Person 1 being inlove
Person 2 posts a tweet ”Just got a new partner” to make Person 1 jealous even though Person 2 does not actually have a partner and Person 2 is only jealous baiting

Jealous Bait by TheRealLexV July 2, 2025