Cringe bait

Deliberately doing something considerably cringe to gain views, likes, or in general attention on social media OR in real life, making someone cringe. So exactly like rage bait, but with cringe.

"You really fell for it dude? He was just cringe baiting you with the maid outfit."

by Kittycorn Me August 8, 2025

Trigger-baiting

Trigger-baiting is the act of deliberately creating content designed to provoke a strong emotional response, typically anger or outrage, in order to boost engagement or farm for views through algorithm-driven exposure.

Trigger-baiting people can be harmful, especially when it leads to online bullying and harassment.

This video was clearly made to trigger-bait people and boost the creator’s views and engagement stats.

by RageBaitRebel May 29, 2025

Queer bait

A person that’s dating a person in their gender

Eli is such a queer bait!

by Yourbasicdumbass May 14, 2020

Prison bait

people who are put into prison for petty charges

all it achieves is prison bait

by mofigori November 12, 2018

Cum Baiting

similar to ragebaiting, but instead of trying to bring rage out in people, it's trying to bring arousal out in people

"finally got bred by my boyfriend, the Cum Baiting really works"

by big_raga October 26, 2025

Log bait

The person who is reading this has just been log baited. Also used to end a phone call.

Person 1: hey matt
Person 2: what

Person 1: log bait (hangs up)

by Ug8tar August 12, 2022

bait used to be believable

a phrase used in response to when someone tries to bait others into believing something or tries to make other people angry

troll: *something really bad*
human: bait used to be believable

by bamfwag December 23, 2023