rubber banding the moment

When a bunch of people are done joking on a subject, and one person tries to get in that last joke.

yeah,yeah, i remembered when he wore high waters! Dude the joke was over 2 minutes ago you're rubber banding the moment

by juco September 2, 2009

status baiting

When someone creates a status that is very important, but equally vague to force people to generate focus on the status creator.

Status creator: "In the ER!"
Responders: "What's going on?" "Are you ok?" "Call me if you need me!" "Please let us know whats happening?"

Scott like to spend his evening status baiting his friends to add value to his life.

by Circusbrain July 21, 2014

moriarty baiting

When you write a show, and you can't excite your audience with nothing but empty promises of a long-dead villain appearing over and over again in every situation you can put him into without saying he's alive or dead. You're trying to keep your audience, but you'll never gonna bring him back, while basically basing your whole show on the fact that he MIGHT be back. It's bad writing and it makes people sad.

"Did you see the new season of Sherlock? Is Jim really alive?"
"Nah, it was a total moriarty baiting the whole time... there's Sherlock's evil sister instead."

"what"

by TheAlec January 29, 2017

Lesbian Baiting

When a straight girl acts like she’s interested in another girl just so she can come out to her.

Lesbian girl: I came out to Amelia because I thought she was interested in me, then she ditched me
Friend: What gave you the indication that she was a lesbian?
Lesbian girl: She kept flirting with me.
Friend: She was lesbian baiting you

by LesbianBaited August 7, 2018

Alpha Baiting

Verb. Luring an Alpha dominant personality into their most primal, aggressive state by sly and subtle entrapment.

Bill was alpha baiting Jeff by using his own words against him. The rage boiled over as Jeff’s alpha personality had no other outlook to express himself other than a huff and a puff.

by Craig Dearborn November 19, 2019

Tag Baiting

When using a social media platform in which hashtags sort posts, such as Instagram, a person adds hashtags that are unrelated. Often for the sake of reaching a wider audience.
This in consequence renders the hashtag sorting system useless.

“Stop Tag baiting, this post is about how to change a tire, why did I find it in #cooking?”

by RougeBerry December 12, 2022

Sympathy Baiting

Also known as sb or sympathy begging, sympathy baiting is a form of attention seeking in which a person or a group of people openly share something that could be considered sad in order to gain sympathy. A sympathy baiter does this on several questions. Sympathy baiting appears most on social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram or Skype.

Person 1: I feel so sorry for Ian!
Person 2: Why? Ian is just a sympathy baiting.

by St. Joshua April 18, 2015