Unlike ghosting where your love interest disappears completely, trickle ghosters do not disappear completely, they just slow down communication to ... a trickle. Trickle ghosters will communicate/message a bit and then disappear again for several more days.
I haven't heard from Carter in days, I think he may be trickle ghosting me but I know I will see and hear from him again
A term used by gay men mostly when speaking of someone they are about to meet or have already met on the internet and plan to have sex with or have already.