the practice of buying tickets to a movie at a multiplex movie theatre and staying for additional films at no extra charge.

A buzz word being used to refer to creators and influencers forming or encouraging unhealthy relationships with their fans. Usually used in the context of young audiences feeling they have a relationship with the influencer due to the huge amount of the influencer’s content they consume. The influencer in question, however, is unaware of the fan’s existence other than the general knowledge of having fans. Common examples include Dream and his stans. These relationships are exacerbated by the influencers confirming they have more than a creator-to-viewer relationship.

The word is circulating due to various YouTube essays about the phenomenon using the word, and therefore people who enjoy complaining about influencers repeating what they heard in the video in any comments section they can find.

To movie hop is to buy 1 ticket to the first movie and after taht first movie is done you sneak into other movies without paying.

To be a bad person at the theater and watch movies you didn't pay for by sneaking in.

Usually you'd pay for the first movie and hop whatever else.

I remember saying this back in 1998. I started this because I was tired of explaining to people my movie hopping strategy.