Social DynamicsDiagnosis
Rage Bait
rayj baytnoun
What it means
Content engineered to provoke a response, rewarded by the algorithm and denied by the person who made it.
What it actually means
The anger is the product.
How it is used in a sentence
"That take was pure rage bait and it worked."
Filed under
Social Dynamics — The unwritten rules we invented online and now enforce in public without irony.
Diagnosis — The phrase already names a real problem. We define it properly.
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