EA Baiting 

When mainly white people on platforms such as Reddit and TikTok appropriate the aesthetics of East Asian culture (particularly Japan and Korea) often sexualising it.

They tend to get defensive, play the victim card or claim to be culturally 'appreciating' rather than 'appropriating' when called out by actual East Asians or EA Wasians.

An academic would understand this as Orientalism, a geographer would understand this as an 'outsider, media perspective of place', but an EA baiter just thinks they are ~unique~. EA baiters also frequently seem to combine Korea, Japan and China into 'Asia' forgetting about South-East Asia, South Asia and the Middle East.

Non-EA who actually try to learn about and appreciate the complexity of EA countries, traditions, history, culture, future etc. are wonderful people.

Japanese example:
EA Baiter: "Uwu... kawaii"
EA "you know you are sexualising a Japanese school girl's uniform right? You are EA Baiting"

EA Baiting by dewiemaiyin March 18, 2022

eBaiting 

The act of engaging in fake help requests with eBay's front-line customer service reps, designed solely to waste their time.

www.eBaiting.com

eBaiting by eBaiting August 20, 2010

EZbaiting

The act of making someone look up the word "EZbaiting", "EZbait", or any other version on the internet.

Person A: Bro, Person C is so good at EZbaiting.
Person B: What's that?
Person A: Look it up ;)
Person B: Okay, sure. Let me look it up.

EZbaiting by Maximalium68 May 30, 2026