Bantbait

Saying something incredibly ridiculous within your video, mentioning it as a joke, and then proceeding to use it as a clickbait-esque title. Popularised by Zerkaa and the Sidemen.

Mate 1: Did you see Zerkaa's video "Fidget Spinners In Rocket League" ?
Mate 2: Yea, that title defines Bantbait

by ApolloAwe June 3, 2018

Bartbait

Based off the hit game "You VS homer" on roblox. A term for when you camp as the killer (Homer), in an attempt of getting barts to surround you and then ambush them.

Homer: *pretends to be afk*
Barts: yo he seems afk let's do a nightmail ritual
Homer: *bartbaits*
(Insert degloving speed here)

by JD pants January 26, 2026

Banbait

A form of bait designed to provoke a user into violating community rules so they can be banned—either from a specific server or from an entire platform. Banbaiting involves subtle provocation: insulting the target's beliefs, triggering their trauma, questioning their integrity—anything that might elicit a response that breaks rules. The baiter remains calm, civil, rule-abiding, while the target, provoked, snaps. When the target curses, threatens, or attacks, the baiter screenshots and reports. The target is banned; the baiter remains, innocent-seeming, ready for the next victim. Banbait is the art of making someone else pay the price for your provocation.

Example: "He calmly disagreed with her politics, then insulted her intelligence, then mocked her education. She called him an asshole. He screenshotted immediately, reported her for harassment, and she was banned. Banbait had worked perfectly: he'd stayed within the rules while provoking her into breaking them. She was gone; he was still there, baiting the next target."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 18, 2026