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

Rage Bait” selected as 2025 Word of the Year, highlighting how outrage-driven content is shaping online culture.

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The publisher of the Oxford English Dictionary has named “rage bait” its phrase of the year. Call it the monetization of rage. Rage has become a valuable commodity. (Always follow the money.) A ...

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Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the Oxford English Dictionary, defined rage bait as “online content ...

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In 2024, Oxford's Word of the Year was brain rot, a phrase meant to capture the mental fatigue, dissatisfaction or dulling sensation people feel after endless scrolling through trivial or low-quality ...

"Rage bait" refers to online content that is “deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, ...

Last year, OUP named “brain rot” as the Oxford Word of the Year 2024, defined as “the supposed deterioration of a person’s ...