Screenward

The involuntary pulling of your gaze or attention toward a phone, television, or computer monitor, especially when you are supposed to be paying attention to a real person.

Coined by Emma Wallace

I tried to listen to his story, but my eyes kept drifting screenward every time my phone buzzed on the table.

Screenward by Olivine Merriam August 6, 2026

screenwriter

A person who writes scipts, that is, the dialogue and actions of a movie. First drafts are often quite different to the final script which becomes a film, but the plotline usually stays similar.

Compared to directors and actors, screenwriters are way down in the food chain of fame, recognition, and money.

"I'm a screenwriter"
"What's that?"
"You don't know?!? Look up urbandictionary!"
"Not found. WHAT THE FUCK IS A SCREENWRITER?!?!?"

screenwriter by Jungle Boogie February 11, 2006

Screenwriter

The Inventor of a film.

The most under-valued person in the filmmaking process.

Person#1: "Casablanca, what a masterpiece. You know it took four screenwriters to write that?

Person#2: "What's a Screenwriter?"

Screenwriter by jazz4 March 27, 2011

screenbarf 

The entering a superfluous amount of information into a system where the resulting outcome is minute and not in proportion to the input provided.

"The sign-up page asks for all this screenbarf just to give me a stupid four-character password!"

screenbarf by chris kalbfleisch September 6, 2007

screenwriter

-noun, plural 'screenwriters'
1. That guy who works as a receptionist and has been doing so for years. He keeps telling you about this killer idea he's working on, but you've never seen a single page.
2. Any idiot who failed English in high school or college.
3. A career track at an institution of higher learning like USC, UCLA, or CMU. Usually taught by a 'working professional' who sold one script about a hero dog who saves his owner. Ironically, the cost of tuition far exceeds what most people will make as a career screenwriter.
4. Anyone with an opinion about a movie who believes they could do better if given the chance.
5. Anyone with access to word processing software.

No one on the set tells the director or producer how to direct or produce. But everyone's a Goddamn writer. Everyone tells the screenwriter how to write.

Screenwriters need to realize that scripts are kinda like assholes: everyone's got at least one.

screenwriter by siddNullus February 6, 2009

Screentard 

screen referring to any digital device with a display, tard taken from the word retard, in reference to being held back, and the slowing of any development

The kids of today are the generation who are not allowed out into the real world to experience life, risk, love, danger. In fear of what could happen, they only want to watch life through a screen.

That kid is a total Screentard!

They are a generation of Screentards!

When I ask him to do anything and there’s a screen on, he is totally Screentarded. it’s like he’s not even listening!

Screentard by Hilly774 November 18, 2019

Screentard

An insulting nickname intended to shame a person who is addicted to technological devices with screens (phones, iPads, tvs) resulting in cognition decline and lack of motivation due to dopamine depletion.

Get off your phone screentard, you’ve been scrolling for an hour.

Screentard by MadameDilliDalli January 26, 2026