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Oxford University Press has named ‘rage bait’ as the Oxford Word of the Year 2025.

Our language experts shortlisted three contenders—rage bait, aura farming, and biohack—that reflect our conversations and preoccupations over the past year. After three days of voting in which more than 30,000 people had their say, our experts chose rage bait after considering votes, the sentiment of public commentary, and their analysis of our lexical data.

Source:https://x.com/UniofOxford/status/1995403814224969820?t=nffjjtePSmYw9YGLExPcbQ&s=19

I have learnt a new word for today.

Ftc

Thats all I have to say

This is interesting, we are taking note

Tunmise40:
Ftc

Thats all I have to say

Keep playing

Someone is up there lol

Cool, although never heard of the word until today

Rage bait indeed. Social media changing even language.

Arise TV are fond of rage baiting though. Small thing they will open it wide like it’s never happened before or elsewhere

The FG rage baits its citizens as a justification to crack down on dissent.

Reno is the king of rage-baiting.

This is non of our business

Good take. I will add it to my vocabulary.

The person that always hide the remaining characters on NL should release it or rage bait

What of "finishing finisher"?

helinues:
The person that always hide the remaining characters on NL should release it or rage bait

Most of your posts on nairaland are examples of rage bait.

Words of the year in Nigeria should be:

1. Intentional
2. Show up

Nigerians have used and sucked life out of these words like kilode

potent5:
Reno is the king of rage-baiting.

Followed by FFK.
And all Tinubu supporters.

potent5:
Reno is the king of rage-baiting.

Nairaland does it too, now u understand d work of yarimo, helinus n the rest of them

One guy here is fond of rage-baiting by throwing annoying posts here and there to get us angry

Rage bait is like that one friend who always knows exactly how to make you mad… online.
It’s designed to make you angry, click, comment, and share like a madman, all while the creator laughs in the background counting their internet points.
Basically, clickbait’s evil twin that feeds on your rage!"

Tsamyavictor:
I have learnt a new word for today.

Are you living under the rock?

Twitter inspired words

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is one of the last brain regions to fully mature, often not reaching full development until the mid-20s.

The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is what normally regulates our impulses and emotional reactions. If it’s not fully developed or is overloaded people are more likely to respond impulsively to emotionally charged content, like rage bait online.

What is the average age of registering online? Mostly 13. A decade of brain rot is dumped online until most of the people have sense.

Our language experts shortlisted three contenders—rage bait, aura farming, and biohack—that reflect our conversations and preoccupations over the past year. After three days of voting in which more than 30,000 people had

I'm being rage baited into anger if the meaning, usage and forms of the word isn't given by the op

Maturity matters online because it allows the PFC to regulate impulses, evaluate information critically, and resist emotionally manipulative content. Exposing preteens or early teens to forums increases the risk of rage-bait reactions and attention-seeking behaviors.


Some adults do have them but when you see that some people love attention seeking, you understand they are still growing

Don't let the world control you. You see them on Nairaland. Once they resort to insults and unnecessary arguments just because you have a different POV, you know it's not worth your energy.

Make i use am sharply. This thread na rage bait.
Obi and Sowore failed to rage bait Nigerians throughout 2025.

What do we fry now? Tissue paper

How can "rage bait" be a word? Isn't that a phrase? They probably meant "rage-bait", which is treated as a word because of the hyphen.

These people sef, na them teach us difference between word, phrase, clause and sentence, na them dey confuse us again with this new one.

Phrase or word? What do i know

And as usual, the "best minds in the world" have chosen a phrase as the word of the year. In other words, the word of the year is not even a word.

Much like when Nigerian organisers chose a male (Bobrisky) as the best dressed female at an event.

Why not ".CRASH OUT"


This has been used more prominently through the whole year...

There's different ways of learning, it might be the word or sentence structure... And btw, encourage open learning and not shame those open to it.

jiggyman:
Are you living under the rock?