Since many of the traditional frat boy style cockwaving activities (date raping as many girls as possible, eating semen off of cookies) are available on the world wide web, a different indicator of penis length has cropped up among the dorks and failures of the messageboards. Usual indicators used are postcount, uptime, computer specifications, amount of RAM, hard drive size, "first post" in a thread, and various other completely non-vital statistics about one's computer. These "netcock waving" threads tend to start at least once a month on messageboards. A lucky person may find a thread full of pictures of the board's posters, so that their complete failure/dork status can be properly judged.

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.

A netcock is word derived from "internet" and "cock". "Cock" is the slang term used to describe a penis.

A netcock is a picture of a random cock on the internet taken with a low resolution camera. The owners of these netcocks are usually anonymous, but may have a strong relation with overweight, red headed sexual predators.

A netcock should not be taken lightly, as for some netcocks, the image itself can cause nausea, eye strain, loss of faith in people, and severe depression. Diarrhea and vomiting have been also known to occur.