Robillard, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Oxford Dictionary has named “rage ...

The phrase refers to online content that is deliberately designed to elicit anger in order to drive traffic to a particular social media account.

Oxford Languages has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year, citing a surge in provocative online content designed ...

Oxford University Press has chosen “rage bait” — defined as “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive” — as its 2025 Word of the ...

Oxford English Dictionary selects ‘rage bait’ as its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting rising internet slang and growing ...

The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022.

Oxford, producer of the famous dictionary and expert in languages, has selected the internet slang "rage bait" as the word of the year. It means "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger ...

After a full year of hectic news, trends and non-stop content, Merriam-Webster has summed it all perfectly in one word.

Merriam-Webster’s word of the year tends to say a lot about the past 12 months — and how ready we as a society are to give up ...

"Slop," which refers to creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content, has landed the title of Merriam-Webster's 2025 word of ...

In the announcement, Merriam-Webster said that the word slop originated in the 1700s to mean "soft mud" before the meaning ...

Oxford's 2025 Word of the Year is “rage bait," highlighting how online content designed to provoke anger has been a defining feature.