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Squishy Typing 

When you spill your beverage into your keyboard and instead of draining it out, like a normal person, you continue typing like nothing happened much to the bemusement of those who witnessed the spill. Squishy Typing is no delicate matter and practitioners usually have an “Own It!” type mentality. Squishy Typers never tickle the keyboard like an Elmo doll on the cold Christmas morning of 1996. Rather, they opt to pound the keys with the renewed vigor of a frustrated Ludwig van Beethoven raging at the heavens during a tsunami.
Jo: Just picked up my coffee off the warmer as someone asked me a question. I swung around and bonked the edge of my monitor and dumped half the cup in my keyboard...

Levi: I'd like to be sympathetic, but I'm too busy laughing. Hopefully, it was a cheap-o, wired keyboard?

Jo: It is. It's a work keyboard so I’m just squishy typing now.

Levi: I smell a UD entry. Squishy Typing

Jo: Ew Ew!! I'll get Darren on it.

Jo: Confession: I may have baited you into the UD recommendation so I could incorporate our conversation into the example...

Levi: Haha. That makes sense.

Darren: Done.
Squishy Typing by Darren Besert November 27, 2017

brady typing

A common form of typing, in which the typist presses each key individually. Instead of relying on the memorized position of keys, the typist must find each key by sight.
"The script took forever to write due to his incessant brady typing."
brady typing by alancnet June 24, 2014

zone typing

when typing, you instinctively know where on the keyboard sits a given key, and you ready the designated finger for that zone – but you still have to look, in order to avoid a typo-ridden text.
People without training usually start out with the one-handed hunt and peck technique, and gradually progress to the two-handed, knowing-what-you’re-doing-looking, zone typing.

brady typing

When you type each key on a keyboard one at a time in an unbearably slow manner aka hunt and peck typing Named for Brady Haran of the Hello Internet podcast.
“Wait a minute Grey I’ll just check Wikipedia for the exact number of fatalities from that tragic plane crash”

Several minutes later

“Wow Brady are you Brady typing! We’ll be here all year”

Cry-typing 

An informal, archaic method of online communication in which a person, via a social media platform or SMS text, expresses something, whilst conveying significant sadness or distress, typically signified by the excessive and incorrect usage of commas, semicolons and intentional typos throughout the message; this occurs typically to the extent that the message is nearly incomprehensible, entirely.

Historically, this means of communication was predominantly used by Tumblr and twitter users, 4Channers and other various types of online degenerates, and is outdated for its extremely obnoxious nature.
Instance of cry-typing:

Girlfriend: babe my plant just died ugh

Boyfriend, trying to smash: o::;mg bae,,,, n;o....., that plan;;;t meea nnt;;;; the wo:;;;,,,rld to m;;;e.......
i am shaak,ing and cry,,,,,ing rig,,,ht n;;ow;;;;; i can;;;t belie;;;ve thii i;;s.......
😭🥺👉👈💔💔🥵

Girlfriend:🗿
Cry-typing by Samueliscool223 August 13, 2021

skype-typing 

Using an instant message service to communicate while video-call skyping with the volume turned off. No verbal words are necessary during the conversation, but you can still see the person you're talking to.
Nick-Hey can we skypetype tonight? I wanna see you but I cant talk everyone will be asleep.

Hannah-Yeah I wanna skypetype tonight! I dont want to wake people up but I still get to see you, skype-typing is awesome!
skype-typing by NickBsquared January 20, 2010
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Oblication 

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A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

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Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
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Plate of Brown 

A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.
Wanna go to meal hall & grab a plate of brown?
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Larpenomics

When finance content creators rent out fancy cars and flex cash to seem richer than they really are in order to promote and sell their “get rich quick” courses.
Andrew Tate has mastered the field of larpenomics
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