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."

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.

by everythingsTakenAAAAA May 27, 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

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.”

by salcruzzle June 6, 2025

Red-Baiting

A logical fallacy that consists of making an accusation that some person is a communist, often with the aim of discrediting them. It can also be used to discredit an idea. It's most used in politics, often by right wingers when discrediting anything slightly left leaning.

Red-Baiting can be boiled down to: "Anything I don't like is communist!"

by LPBvgc June 20, 2025

Freak baiting

freak baiting: Instead of rage baiting and making them mad you make them freaky instead aka freak baiting

eg.) aww fuck you bro(but u rizzed them earlier) then they go: Please do, that is freak baiting

by Gangstersponge June 26, 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

by TheRealLexV July 2, 2025