Techsplaining

When a user in an online tech support forum, especially on reddit, responds to a specific technical question with unsolicited hardware/software advice, personal endorsements of unrelated technology, unrelated tangents, or put-downs about the asker's use of technology or level of technical ability. Portmanteau of "technology" and "mansplaining".

User 1: "I have a Windows 7 PC that keeps freezing every time I start a certain program. Can anyone help me figure out why it's doing this?"
User 2: "Bro wtf, why are you still using Windows 7? Are you a complete moron? Just upgrade to Windows 11 already. It's so much better. If your computer still runs Windows 7, you're living in the fucking dark ages. Get a laptop with a Ryzen CPU and at least 32GB of RAM. It's better for gaming and really worth the price."
User 1: "Thank you for techsplaining. Are you going to answer my question or not?"

by gorpoglorp May 13, 2022

Techsploitation

When IT engineers are paid to one job but IT management get them to do several other jobs at the same time but not pay them the market rate for doing so.

That's Techsploitation!

by takesitupthetradesmens June 25, 2010

teensplainer

a teen who thinks they know more about a topic then their parent and then explains it to them

Alice is such a teensplainer, the other day she was explaining 80's culture.
Like i haven't lived through the 80's myself

by Raccooty March 5, 2018

terfsplaining

When a terf or gc(gender critical) individual explains how transgender individuals transition works, even when trans people almost always know more about transitioning. It's almost all done out of ignorance and joking in an echo chamber that terfs have created.

Terf: "you will always be a woman even if you cut off your dick for a rot pocket"
Trans woman:" stop terfsplaining to me and open google"

by whooith January 25, 2026