Self-Serving Confirmation Bias

The emotionally motivated tendency to seek and interpret evidence in ways that protect or enhance one's self-image. When success occurs, we confirm it was due to our skill; when failure occurs, we confirm it was due to external factors. We remember our contributions vividly and others' forgetfully. We judge our own ethically ambiguous actions by our intentions, and others' identical actions by their outcomes. This bias isn't about accuracy; it's about maintaining a coherent, positive narrative of the self.

Self-Serving Confirmation Bias Example: You ace a test and attribute it to intelligence. You fail a test and blame the unfair questions or lack of sleep. Your coworker, observing your performance, sees the opposite pattern in you. Both of you are exhibiting Self-Serving Confirmation Bias. The ego is not a neutral observer of your life; it is a lawyer, and its client—the self—is always innocent, always capable, always the hero of its own story.

by Dumu The Void February 11, 2026

Salty surfing

Surfing the internet for excessive amounts of time -mainly social media- looking for salty bitches or salty characters or people being salty . (See salty definition on other page)

It took me all night of salty surfing to find my next date.

by Savage Monroe September 14, 2025

Seam surfing

The act of ejaculating on someone’s back during intercourse and using it as a ad a slip N slide

Hey bitch, I pulled a jay swiz nasty on her tits and then started seam surfing for the next hour.

by Tedwin69420 January 16, 2026

Scroll Surfing

Scroll Surfing:
The modern evolution of web surfing from Back in the day, people explored the internet surfing from site to site. Now, we surf our feeds instead.

Lee: Bruv, I hardly surf the web anymore.
Frank: Me too, bruv… now we do scroll surfing instead… bruv.
Lee: How times have changed.
Frank: Init, bruv. LOL.
Lee: LOL.

by Jamie Cheese January 27, 2026

career wake surfing

When a junior colleaugue uses your career trajectory to improve their own careeer prospects

Dude, did you hear about Joe's new promotion for all that work he did.

Yeah - in fact that was work I did 2 years ago and he has been career wake surfing ever since.

by Big Al. December 20, 2012

Filipino sand surfing

When you give that girl the ‘ol Mankey meat

“Aye bitch you tryna go filipino sand surfing?”

by MankeyMeat42069 February 26, 2021

E-Crowd Surfing

...to gain attention with online media in an attempt to engage with audiences.

"He only posted that selfie to go e-crowd surfing."

by xJTxx April 21, 2023