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Chatlighting

The act of deliberately prompting, steering, or reframing questions to an AI (especially ChatGPT) in order to elicit a desired answer, validation, or confirmation—often by selectively presenting information, omitting context, or repeatedly rephrasing until the response aligns with one’s preferred outcome.
He was clearly chatlighting the model until it agreed with his argument.
Chatlighting by Jdanz December 17, 2025
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Catlighting

This is a combination of "cat fishing" and "gas lighting". When some pretends to be someone they're not and then tries to convince you that they never gave you that idea.
This guy tried catlighting me. I was convinced when we chatted that he was a Top... but he was on all 4s as soon as we met.
Catlighting by Ajjumah2 December 3, 2021
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Catlighting

cat·light
/ˈcatˌlīt/
verb
gerund or present participle: gaslighting

Manipulate humans (and dogs) using psycatogical methods into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning. Ex. meowing at nothing as if something is there or meowing and pretending you didn't.
Meow.

What do you need, Cat?

*cat stares at nothing, as if nothing has occurred*

Stop catlighting me!

(yes, the example is stupid. UD forced me to do it.)
Catlighting by therealyemmie February 28, 2024

chatslighting 

When a streamer's chat bands together to mislead said streamer, or make streamer feel that they are going crazy.
"JoBobJay42069 seems to be having a really bad time rn..." "Yeah. his chat's chatslighting him super hard about his new haircut"
chatslighting by Gufty Bovilex April 27, 2024

chatslighting 

When a streamer's chat bands together to mislead said streamer, or make streamer feel that they are going crazy.
"JoBobJay42069 seems to be having a really bad time rn..." "Yeah. his chat's chatslighting him super hard about his new haircut"
chatslighting by Gufty Bovilex April 27, 2024

Caslighting 

manipulate (someone) by psychological means into questioning their own sanity

often mistaken or referred to as “gaslighting” but is a simple grammatical mistake
Kat often uses caslighting against Josh by attempting to change the way he remembers things
Caslighting by Jburley9 August 9, 2022

Stealthie 

when you're holding up your phone and making faces at it, as though you are taking a selfie, but you're really taking a picture of the person across from you or the wall or anything else that seems interesting but you don't want to be caught dead taking a picture of.

This action is often made more convincing by wiggling the eyebrows or opening the mouth, to pretend you're trying to get a Snapchat filter to work.
FRIEND A: "Did you just take a stealthie of me?"

FRIEND B (turning phone around): "no I was just using snapchat's new filter, see?"
Stealthie by gwenhyfar October 2, 2016
Word of the Day on May 25, 2026