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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.
by 80083 April 29, 2025
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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.
by DTolsk May 10, 2025
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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