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A cynical observation that, on social media and internet platforms, the official record of events—who was banned, what content was removed, what narratives are preserved—is controlled not by users but by those with power to delete, edit, and conceal. Moderators and administrators can erase evidence of their own abuses, fabricate justifications for bans, and shape community memory to favor their clique. The phrase warns that appeals to “the record” or “what really happened” are futile when those who control the record are the same people who caused the harm.
“History on Social Media and on the Internet is written by Moderators and Administrators.” Example: “When she tried to appeal her ban with screenshots, the mods deleted the evidence threads and said ‘we have no record of any harassment.’ History on social media is written by moderators and administrators.”
by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 28, 2026
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When you're manipulated by a content creator into thinking they're a good person but then you find out they're like a sex perfect or wife beating psycho, all the while you defended them without realizing they were taking advantage of you. Until they finally get exposed/canceled and your friend finally rescues you from said para-social relationship and you finally stop following them after all these years.
Nate - Man i used to watch Destiny all the time, but ever since the minor sexting and revenge porn I've kinda stopped following.
Kyra - really? you're finally getting out of that abusive para-social relationship?
by NateC123 August 23, 2025
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Taking a break from social media

She or he is not really taking a break off social media. They are no longer interested in you. You have become a secondary option, a Plan B, the gay best friend. You chump.
Boy: "I haven't seen or heard from you in a week, how you been?"
Girl: "Yeah, I been taking a break from social media. Thanks for helping me return my AC unit. I'll buy you coffee!"
by ChueyFuey June 7, 2025
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Heretic (Informal/Social)

A person who actively tries to tear down Christianity not because of reason or belief, but out of hostility, resentment, or personal anger.
Despite identifying as an atheist, she spent so much time attacking Christianity that people began referring to her as a Heretic (Informal/Social)
by Quizquicks November 25, 2025
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Liquor Store Social

When an unusually large number of homeless people (4+) hang out together outside a liquor store.
John: "I was on the bus headed to the comic store today when I saw like 8 homeless dudes hanging out outside the liquor store talking."
David: "Damn, how come we didn't get invited to the Liquor Store Social?"
by TurksAgainstVapes January 13, 2026
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The prediction problem. Unlike in physics, where you can isolate variables and predict an eclipse to the second, social sciences (economics, political science, sociology) deal with complex, reflexive systems. Humans react to predictions, changing the outcome (the "Lucas Critique"). The hard problem is: Can you have a real science of human society if its core subjects alter their behavior upon hearing your findings? True scientific laws are supposed to be invariant. Social "laws" are more like trends that expire once people know about them, making the field perpetually one step behind a moving target.
Example: An economist develops a perfect model predicting stock market crashes. Once published, investors see it and adjust their behavior to avoid the predicted conditions, thereby preventing the very crash the model forecasted. The model is now wrong. The hard problem: The act of studying the system changes it. This makes falsification—the bedrock of science—incredibly tricky. Social science thus often ends up explaining the past very well (postdiction) but failing at predicting the future, which is what we usually want from a science. Hard Problem of the Social Sciences.
by Nammugal January 24, 2026
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ay boo what's your social security number

one and only XXXTENTACION comments on Kylie Jenner's old Instagram post of her on an adventure saying "ay boo what's your social security number"
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XXXTENTACION comments: ay boo what's your social security number
by Plootus February 2, 2024
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