brasslighting 

A term, created on 13 March 2025 for the military community, describing the act of excessively or insincerely agreeing with or supporting a senior leader's ideas or decisions, regardless of how flawed, impractical, or misguided they may be, in order to gain favor, avoid conflict, or advance one’s own standing. Often involves exaggerated praise, unquestioning acceptance, and the deliberate suppression of critical thought to align with higher-ranking authority.

The commander's plan to resupply through enemy territory was obviously doomed from the start, but the XO kept brasslighting him the whole time.

brasslighting by RonnoCinque March 13, 2025

grasslighting

Gaslighting somebody by telling them they were high at the time and just imagined things.

"I thought I saw her cheating on me last night, but in the morning she said I was so high I was imagining things."
"Nah bro, she's grasslighting you."
"Wow that sucks. Still gonna toke though."

grasslighting by Wake(man) & Bake(r), LLP November 30, 2016

Blaslighting 

The action of lying/attempting to convince a person or a group of persons that one or more of your parents has passed when in reality the parent in question is alive.

Blas: "Oh chat, btw my mom just died"
Chat: "STFU old man, we know you're Blaslighting us"

Blaslighting by Itayola November 21, 2022

branslighting 

gaslighting yourself.

"yeah, grayden did some branslighting and convinced himself into thinking glaggleland wasn't real"

branslighting by c0nfuzzled June 24, 2023

Grasslighting

When people suggest to "touch grass" or go outside as an insult and especially when used to punctuate a conversation or argument.

I thought it was pretty rude and ignorant when they started grasslighting me after I posted that memes are a valid form of storytelling and considered internet folklore.

Grasslighting by MC1100 June 21, 2024

Brakelighting 

When you reverse the gaslighting and add in factual elements

Source: Quintana...best waitress ever

I was told what I was doing was bad, but I did some brakelighting and got them to show me the specific rules and procedures I supposedly messed up

Brakelighting by Stlbryson September 17, 2025

Brainlighting

A form of Digitallighting that weaponizes brain-related insults to systematically dismantle a target’s confidence in their own mind. The perpetrator repeatedly tells the target they are “stupid,” “brainless,” “delusional,” or that they “need to use their brain”—often in public threads, so the target’s credibility is eroded before witnesses. Brainlighting combines the gaslighting effect (making the target doubt their own perception) with public humiliation. The goal is to isolate the target by convincing both them and onlookers that the target cannot think clearly, therefore anything they say is suspect. It is frequently used in debates where the actual substance is inconvenient, replacing argument with character assassination.

Example: “He ignored her sources, her logic, her evidence, and just kept posting ‘you dropped your brain.’ After weeks of this, she began to wonder if she was missing something obvious. Brainlighting: making someone doubt their own intellect to win without argument.”

Brainlighting by Abzugal April 1, 2026