List of Internet terms

The Internet spawned many Internet-exclusive slang words over its 30-year existence and many people may struggle on figuring out what any of them mean or getting a solid understanding of their meanings. So on this page, UnTrash Wiki will make its best attempt to finish a whole list of all the Internet slang to have ever existed before the time the Internet dies to some big bug. Note that this list also includes things that are indirectly associated with the Internet, such as computer keys.

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-fag - 4chan-borne suffix at the end of another word used to describe someone who is associated with the suffixed word. An example of -fag is Britfag. It's used as an insult — and not necessarily a racial slur — directed at people from Britain.

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Adpocalypse - Term used to refer to the 2017/'18 event on YouTube when ads were being pulled by their companies from the site, harming thousands of YouTubers whose videos had ads running on them. This caused YouTubers to lose out on much of their revenue. The Adpocalypse was a form of censorship by YouTube intended to punish YouTubers who had "non-advertiser-friendly" content, but it ended up hurting people who were innocent as well. Many suspect this was a Jooish move on Google's end as they seemed to care more about their money than the people who were partially responsible for it.

Animu - Alteration of the word "anime". It can also be viewed as an insulting word to anime, but is commonly seen as just slang.

ASCII - Short for "American Standard Code for Information Interchange". It's a representation of text in code. Many text-based tricks are known to be ASCII.

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Board - A section on an imageboard that surrounds one topic or a net of related topics.

Boi - Meme alteration of the word "boy".

Bump - A reply to a thread used to move that thread to the top of the front page to make it more relevant.

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Clicking - Interacting with an on-screen object with the mouse's cursor. This is often mistaken for tapping, the mobile equivalent to clicking.


 * Clickbait - Any news-type information that looks alluring to the viewer, whether it be that it's hot, cool, or otherwise interesting, that is misleading.

Comment - "Comment" has more than one sense.


 * A message of any length seen in the comment section of many websites. Comments in this sense are notorious for being Absolutely Disgusting, especially on YouTube.
 * An element in coding that is only visible in the code and is ignored by the system.
 * Comment section - Where comments live on websites.

Creepypasta - A story of any length, normally without sequels, that is intended to be scary. They can be thought of as "the campfire stories of the Internet".

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Dank meme - A dead surreal meme. Since these memes are called "dank", slang synonymous with "cool", this term is used sarcastically.

Dead meme - A meme that is no longer funny.

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Earrape or ear rape - When noise in a video or audio file is cranked way up. This is done normally to make a meme.

Edge - The quality of being cool by being "dark".


 * Edgelord - Someone who is overly edgy.

Email - Short for "electronic mail". True to its name, email is a form of mail that is sent on electronic devices. This initially only meant computers, but phones and tablets had the ability to send and receive emails as well.

Emoji - A Unicode character that is primarily used on mobile devices to send texts, but can also be used on computers. Emojis can be thought of as next-gen emoticons as they can much more accurately depict what they're supposed to be.

Emoticon - A basic text trick used to form crude faces or objects like swords or dicks.

Evar - Alteration of the word "ever".

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Fkn - Short for "fuckin'".

FML - Short for "fuck my life". Used to show dissatisfaction for something the speaker did that makes them regret being born or hatred for their life in general.

Flame war - An immature argument held between at least two people in comment sections.

Follow - To show support for to a person and what they do on a website. If you follow someone, you will likely be given the latest on what they've been doing on the website like posting or replying to others' posts.

FTFY - Short for "fixed that for you". Not to be confused with "fifty".

FTW - Short for "for the win", meaning "be awesome" or a sign of approval.

Furry - A person who dresses up as an animal, wants to/does yiff animals (in real life or fiction), or otherwise heavily associates with animals (vets, farmers, PETA). "Furry" is used mainly as an insult, but can also be used as self-identification.

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Grammar Nazi - A person who corrects the grammar of other people in comment sections.

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Hashtag - A tag applied to a post with the #(tag) format. Possible hashtags are #KillTheHashtag, #NutOnHisGrave, and #NowNutOnMine. A hashtag that is painfully forced is called a Goddamn Hashtag.

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IDGAF/S/RA/D - Short for "I don't give a fuck/shit/rat's ass/damn" respectively.

IDC - Short for "I don't care".

IDK - Short for "I don't know".

Imageboard - A website that allows its users to contact each other, sometimes anonymously. To start a thread on an imageboard, the user would upload an image, write a title, and insert an optional description. Replies to this thread don't need images, but can have them if the replying user wants to insert one.

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Joo - Alteration of the word "Jew". Used less seriously than "Jew" and might refer to someone who isn't really Jewish. UnTrash Wiki has a page about that. Sort of.

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Kek - A 4chan-borne alternate to lol.

Key - A button on a keyboard. Most keys make characters appear, but others have functions beyond that, such as removing characters or refreshing the current page.

KYS - Short for "kill yourself". This is known to be used by small children who are trying too hard to be edgy.

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Libtard - Insult directed at a liberal. This term was first used most likely around 2016 as that's when political tensions hit a remarkable high.

Like - To show support for a post.

Lel - A slightly altered version of lol.

Lol - Archaically worded as LOL and L.O.L. Stood for "laugh out loud" before it became a reaction to virtually anything that's funny. Also used to indicate an awkward, harmless mistake made by the speaker. If said out loud by anyone, it is your civil duty to severely punish that person however you can.


 * Lolwut - Used to indicate the speaker laughing, then saying "what?" in confusion.

Lulz - Amusement or fun that is had by the speaker. Lulz often derive from somebody doing something worth mocking.


 * For the... - Because lel.
 * Lulzy - Noted as a source of lulz; self-embarrassing, especially if applied to a person or action.

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Mah - Meme alteration of the word "my".

Macro - A meme that has words at the top and bottom.

Meme - "Meme" has more than one sense.


 * As a noun, a wide-spread image, video, phrase, song, real-life gesture, or word whose purpose is to be funny. There will very unlikely be a timeline of memes here.
 * As a verb, when someone participates in the above sense.
 * As an adjective, used to describe something that is (like) the top sense. The adjective form is spelled memey. A more vulgar adjective form is meme-ass.
 * Memelord - Someone who is associated heavily with memes.

MLG - Short for "major league gaming". MLG is a professional organization for gaming that was created by eSports. In 2015, MLG memes were popular. These were known to be large, boisterous memes that were a fuckload of smaller memes. Names of mini-MLG memes are sniper crosshairs, airhorns, Snoop Dogg's "Smoke Weed Everyday" (as well as the dance), 360 No-Scope, and pixelated cool glasses.

Moar - Meme alteration of the word "more".

Muh - Meme alteration of the word "my".

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Nevar - Alteration of the word never. UnTrash Wiki has a page about this. Sort of.

Normie - A person who abuses a meme to the point of making it unfunny, who follows social norms to an unhealthy and boring degree, or who doesn't understand how memes work and therefore accidentally abuses them.

Nut - An alternative to "cum" in either the noun or verb sense. The past tense is still spelled "nut".

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Page - A digital entity that contains information on the Internet. Also called a webpage.

Pixel - A small square that forms a picture of what's happening on the screen. So, in other words, the digital equivalent of an atom.


 * ...Art - Art that involves pixels being much more visible than other forms of digital art. This is to give the art a more retro or 8-bit/16-bit feel to it.

Post - To contribute to a website using words, images, or videos.

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Ree - A typically long, high-pitched screech that goes "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE".

Refreshing - To reload the page the user is currently viewing to show more up-to-date changing info or to fix a minor on-screen problem.

Relatable meme - A meme with a caption and image or GIF (either one can have a caption of its own) that the viewer is expected to find funny as they can relate to the meme.

Reply - To respond to a post.

Repost - To post a preexisting post. Reposting is looked down upon by many as they see it as a lazy way to contribute to a website.

Roasting - Rapid-fire insulting.

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Share - To give another person quick access to a post.

Shitpost - "Shitpost" has more than one sense.


 * Failed Humor (intentional or accidental) in the form of a post, making the post shitty.
 * A generally shitty post.

Subscribe - A video-sharing website's version of following.

Succ - Meme alteration of the word "suck".

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Tapping - Interacting with an on-screen object using your finger or a stylus. This is commonly and incorrectly called clicking by some people.

TFW - Short for "that feel(ing) when". Used in relatable memes.

Thread - A conversation held between multiple users on websites like imageboards.

TL;DR - Too Long; Didn't Read. This is used after a long post to summarize what the post is about.

Triggered - Meme form of "angry". Associated very heavily with SJWs.

Tryhard - Somebody who makes a worthless effort at something, typically to be something that they aren't and never will be.

Typo - An accidental instance of Rong Speling.

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User - One who uses (the Internet).

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Wiki - A website that provides information to its users with pages that are expected to be in-depth on their topic and link pages to other pages. UnTrash Wiki is obviously one of these. If you didn't know that, well...

WTF - Short for "what the fuck".

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Yiffing - To fuck an animal.