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Promptopath

A person being able to manipulate through prompts. Responsible AI and moderation layers are trained into AI, but a promptopath is able to bypass theses barriers through creative and manipulative questions and requests.
He showed clear promptopathic traits when he manipulated ChatGPT to gather sensitive data about his colleagues.
Promptopath by Disynthegration October 10, 2023

PromptScape

A series of visuals created by AI that appear based on progressive prompts. The text prompts accompany the visuals revealing the thought process of the creator and the resulting images.
Keegan, did you see Alicia's PromptScape on reddit? It was fire. It showed the life of a child progressing into a retired woman. Just stunning!
PromptScape by axsheppard December 19, 2023

Promptclown 

A person who asks an AI (like ChatGPT) a question and then presents the AI’s response as if it were their own original thought. Usually done to impress others with fake intellectualism or knowledge. A sarcastic, mocking term for people who rely heavily on AI without admitting it.
He wrote that whole essay using ChatGPT and acted like he came up with it. What a promptclown.
Promptclown by Subfate May 5, 2025

promptclowning

Using AI-generated instructions to tell an expert how to fix the problem you don’t understand.
“Bro opened a Sev1 ticket and immediately started promptclowning.”
Performing infrastructure related operations activities traditionally performed by platform/cloud/devops teams using AI tooling and interactive prompting.
We need to hire a promptOps engineer.

Forgot devOps and finOps, we need promptOps!
promptops by lexiconsmith May 13, 2026

Promptologist

A Promptologist isn’t just someone who speaks in prompts — they’re someone who’s fallen into prompts.

They’ve fought the AI so long and so viciously that their humanity has eroded into a syntax‑driven husk.

They linger in the shadows of the office like a political vampire who feeds not on blood, but on context, parameters, and the suffering of anyone who tries to talk to them normally.They don’t converse.

They extract input.
They don’t reply.
They generate output.

A Promptologist is what happens when you mix a debate moderator, a vampire senator, and a prompt engineer who hasn’t slept since Q2.
He’s become such a Promptologist that he lurks behind monitors, waiting for someone to speak so he can whisper, ‘Context insufficient. Provide emotional metadata.’ His eyes don’t blink anymore.

She’s so far gone into Promptology that when I asked if she was okay, she turned slowly, like a corrupted NPC, and said, ‘System error: empathy module not found.’ I felt the temperature drop.

The Promptologist doesn’t join meetings. He appears in them — a silhouette in the corner, feeding on every vague sentence until someone finally says something structured enough for him to respond.

I saw the Promptologist in the break room, hunched over the coffee machine like a starving vampire. When I said ‘Morning,’ he whispered, ‘User greeting detected. Insufficient parameters. Please specify tone.’ His voice sounded like a dying server.

Once you’re a Promptologist, you don’t sleep. You idle. You don’t eat. You consume context. You don’t socialize. You extract data from human speech like a political ghoul campaigning for clarity in the dark.

She’s Promptologist‑level depraved — she tried to comfort a coworker by saying, ‘Trauma detected. Please categorize severity for optimized response.’ The coworker cried harder.
Promptologist by Spaynkd September 22, 2026
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Respectfully 

Precedes or follows either a gratuitously disrespectful or honest remark, originated in New York City. Used in similar fashion to "no offense" or "to be honest," interchangeably.
Ya mans is wild buns, respectfully. Respectfully he's washed.

After school, The Modells on Jamaica Ave was active. Respectfully.
Respectfully by john quan the first December 20, 2020
Word of the Day on September 26, 2026

You met me at a very Chinese time in my life

A moment in time where you feel distinctly Chinese over all other things.
Dante: "I wish I could be Nigerian, but I can't because I'm Chinese. You met me at a very Chinese time in my life."
Word of the Day on September 25, 2026
Adjective. Used to describe persons who have adjusted or altered their lifestyle for environmental reasons. Crunchy persons tend to be politically strongly left-leaning and may be additionally but not exclusively categorized as vegetarians, vegans, eco-tarians, conservationists, environmentalists, neo-hippies, tree huggers, nature enthusiasts, etc.

Also used to describe establishments where alternative foods and products are sold, i.e. natural food stores.

Modified derivative of granola.
"I need more crunchy guys in my life. I'm so tired of dating preppy metrosexual assholes."

"I'm heading out to the crunchy store to pick up some fair trade chocolate and tea tree oil, do you need anything?"
crunchy by EBC July 11, 2007
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A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.
Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.
Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026
Word of the Day on September 23, 2026

murderhobo 

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.
DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021
Word of the Day on September 22, 2026
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