Shadow box

To fight an imaginary opponent or issue. Figuratively, to avoid direct confrontation or to play mind games. Featured in the song Smooth Operator by Sade (c) 1984:

Face to face, each classic case
We shadow box and double cross
Yet need the chase

by UrbanColeus May 13, 2024

shadow puffin

Freaks out and chases the shadows and visual hallucinations in the room and breatheing becomes fast loud and out of control.

" Look at that lame dude over there shadow puffin, he needs to get off the sh**."

"Ni**a he be shadow puffin"

by Lethal-love January 10, 2024

Shadow

Questions everyone and everything. An insensitive person. Self centered.

“Look at Shadow.”
“Yeah, they’re my bully, they hate me.”

by One hundred twenty three May 29, 2021

I still see your shadows in my room

That song from the fortnite live event

I still see your shadows in my room cant take back the love that i gave you its to the point where i love and i hate you

by K9123 December 8, 2024

Chasing Shadows

Dwelling on bad memories.

"I can't stop thinking about what happened to me as a kid. I keep chasing shadows."

by Chrimson85 July 4, 2025

Shadow 24k

Shadow 24k is a variety tiktok content created posting everything from,apex,fortnite and making edits, he usually puts lots of effort into his vids and is very underrated and enjoys posting content for others to see

Person 1: who is shadow 24k?
Person 2: hes a good content creator u should follow

by Shadows fan February 14, 2022

Shadow ordering

Shadow ordering is a variant of shadowban. Instead of hiding your posts completely, a social media platform will send them to the ends of lists where few are likely to see them. At the same time, they lie to you: tricking you into thinking your posts are doing better than they are.

For instance, when you leave a reply on Twitter and then look at the reply page, your reply will be right at the top. However, if you then look at the same page while logged in to another account, you might need to scroll page after page to see your reply.

In some cases, you might need to click 'Show more replies' to find your reply. Twitter calls tweets after that link 'LowQuality'. They have a second 'AbusiveQuality' section even further down.

Only in rare cases does any of this make sense. Twitter usually elevates low-content replies while suppressing higher-quality content. Their ranking is based more on popularity, the number of people who block you, a desire to protect verified users from dissent, etc. Only in some cases is this based on ideology: in the USA, both liberals and conservatives are heavily impacted by shadow ordering.

"Look, my reply to the GOP is at the top of the list!"
"Uh, no. I'm logged in to my account and I had to scroll 20 pages to see your tweet. They tricked you using shadow ordering."

by 24Ahead January 6, 2023