When someone writes a comment on someone's fb post, or elsewhere online, and a petty (ignorant) person comes along and accuses this first person of saying or meaning something that they really aren't saying or meaning. Mr. or Mrs. Pettypants is either too quick to judge and misread the comment, or understand/grasp people's comment s, so they take apart your sentences and accuse you of something completely opposite of what you meant or said.

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.