AI Psychosis

You know that that might stop immediately after you credit and pay me right?

Hym "Yeah. The AI psychosis might be a sign that you've been flagged for non-payment. You should know by now that tripping the anti-theft can be apocalyptic."

AI Psychosis by Hym Iam November 8, 2025

Trap Psychosis

The phenomenon of users on Booru-style websites tagging or describing canonically transgender, non-binary, or genderfluid fictional characters as "traps", "femboys", "crossdressers", or, rarely, "women" if the character was born female.

"James went on Rule 34.xxx and say Najimi Osana listed as a femboy. He lamented the Trap Psychosis of the site's posters."

Trap Psychosis by Cotton Vonn November 13, 2025

Reverse psychology

KRISH THE GREMLIN

KRISH THE GREMLIN uses reverse psychology to punch and kick his door to ruin his damage deposit because his baby mama pissed him off

Reverse psychology by DEADDAD23!! November 29, 2025

Daylight Psychological Dread

Daylight Psychological Dread
noun

The feeling of slow, creeping fear that occurs when everything is visible, calm, and beautiful—yet your body knows something is wrong. A genre where reassurance fails, daylight offers no protection, and the viewer realizes they are part of what’s happening simply by watching.

A24's Midsommar is daylight psychological dread before it meets horror. Everything is bright and colorful but I feel awful inside.

Daylight Psychological Dread by Near Land January 12, 2026

Daylight Psychological Dread

Daylight Psychological Dread
noun

The feeling of slow, creeping fear that occurs when everything is visible, calm, and beautiful, yet your body knows something is wrong. A genre where reassurance fails, daylight offers no protection, and the viewer realizes they are part of what’s happening simply by watching.

Coined by Near Land as a contemporary art style.

This painting is giving me daylight psychological dread vibes. The islands and water are bright and beautiful but the title is called "You Left Me Here." That makes me feel uneasy.

A24's Midsommar is daylight psychological dread before it meets horror. Everything is bright and colorful but I feel awful inside.

Daylight Psychological Dread by Near Land January 12, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Slurs

Hyperbolic, derogatory terms used to instantly dismiss and ridicule individuals or ideas that deviate from mainstream scientific consensus, often without engaging their specific claims. While motivated by defense of science, these slurs (e.g., "flatard," "anti-vaxxer" used as a pure epithet, "conspiritard," "woo-woo") function as thought-terminating clichés. They replace reasoned rebuttal with tribal mockery, attacking the person's intelligence or sanity rather than their arguments. This often backfires, reinforcing the target's identity as a persecuted truth-seeker and cementing their in-group loyalty.

Example: In an online debate about GMOs, someone expresses concern about long-term ecological impacts. Instead of addressing the specific concern about monocultures or pesticide resistance, a respondent immediately calls them a "Luddite" and a "science-denier." The slur shuts down conversation. The concerned person, now insulted, retreats to communities that validate their fears, viewing the mainstream as dogmatic and abusive. The slur didn't protect science; it weaponized its label and created an enemy. Anti-Pseudoscience Slurs.

Anti-Pseudoscience Slurs by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026

Anti-Pseudoscience Bigotry

A rigid, ideological stance that conflates scientific methodology with the current institutional consensus, treating any challenge to the latter as heresy against the former. It's the belief that science is a monolithic repository of Final Truths rather than a fallible, ongoing process. This bigotry manifests as automatically venerating "official" sources while dismissing all heterodox thinkers, regardless of evidence or argument. It fails to recognize that many revolutionary ideas (germ theory, plate tectonics) began as "pseudoscience" outside the consensus, and that skepticism of institutional authority is sometimes warranted.

Example: A researcher presents preliminary but methodologically sound data suggesting a non-standard mechanism for a well-understood phenomenon. Instead of evaluating the work, established figures immediately brand it "pathological science" and blacklist the researcher from journals. They cite the "overwhelming consensus" as proof the new work must be wrong, committing the appeal-to-authority fallacy. This bigotry protects orthodoxy but stifles the corrective, revolutionary potential that is essential to science's long-term health. Anti-Pseudoscience Bigotry.

Anti-Pseudoscience Bigotry by Dumuabzu January 25, 2026