Internet drama dictionary: 20 slang words you need to read the comments

Here is the internet drama dictionary: 20 words you need to read creator drama comments without asking your younger cousin. Each one gets a one-line definition, where it comes from when that’s known, and a tiny example.

Every definition is checked against a reference source, listed below. Slang moves fast, so treat this as a living list.

A–C: aura to crash out

Aura / aura farming

Aura is someone’s current reputation or charisma, tracked like a score. Aura farming is building it on purpose: Oxford defines it as the “cultivation of an impressive, attractive, or charismatic persona or public image,” and it was a runner-up for Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year. “Staring off into the distance for the thumbnail is pure aura farming.”

Chat

What streamers call their live viewers, and now what people call any imagined audience. Know Your Meme says IShowSpeed popularized “Chat, is this real?” around March 2023. “Chat, is this real or is it AI?”

Clip farming

Doing something on purpose so it gets clipped and goes viral. Wiktionary labels it derogatory “Twitch-speak” for chasing attention, often in a way that isn’t genuine. “That fake rage quit was clip farming and everyone knows it.”

Cooked

To be cooked is to be in trouble, with no way out. “He tweeted that before deleting his old posts? He’s cooked.”

Crash out

To lose it: a bout of rage or upset, usually in public. “She was fine until the donation message, then she crashed out live.”

F–L: fell off to lore

Fell off

Got worse or less popular than before. Wiktionary lists this sense of “fall off” as a decline in quality. “His uploads were elite in 2021, but he fell off.”

Glazing

Praising someone so much it gets annoying. Dictionary.com quotes Barron’s (March 2026) describing “glazing” as “to excessively praise something.” “Stop glazing him, it was one decent stream.”

It’s giving

Says what vibe something has. Dictionary.com notes it’s used for “everything from a particularly strong energy to a bold look.” “The new merch drop? It’s giving 2016 Tumblr.”

L

Short for “loss.” Something bad, embarrassing or a failure. “Getting banned mid-giveaway is a massive L.”

Lore

Someone’s personal backstory. Mental Floss describes the slang sense as “the particular personal history of someone.” A “lore drop” is when they share a lot of it at once. “Wait, she used to be a competitive figure skater? Huge lore drop.”

M–R: mog to rizz

Mog

To be noticeably better than someone, in looks or performance. Dictionary.com traces it to “AMOG” (alpha male of the group) from early-2000s manosphere forums; it’s now often used ironically, though it’s still tied to looksmaxxing forums. “The new guy completely mogged the host in that podcast frame.”

Rage bait

Oxford’s 2025 Word of the Year: “online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive.” “That ‘hot take’ video is rage bait. Don’t comment.”

Ratio

When a post gets more replies than likes and reposts combined, which usually means people are dunking on it. “His apology got ratioed in under an hour.”

Receipts

Dictionary.com: slang for “proof” or “evidence,” often used to call someone out for lying. “She said he never paid the editor, then posted the receipts.”

Rizz

Dictionary.com: “skill in charming or seducing a potential romantic partner,” especially by talking. “Bro has zero rizz but somehow got the collab.”

S–W: six-seven to W

Six-seven (67)

Dictionary.com’s 2025 Word of the Year, which the site said is “impossible to define.” It comes from Skrilla’s song “Doot Doot (6 7),” LAist reported. “How was the stream? Six-seven.”

Subathon

A stream where every new sub or donation adds time to the clock, so it can run for days. Kai Cenat’s Mafiathon 2 ended in November 2024 with a record 728,535 subscribers, according to Wikipedia. “He’s on day 12 of the subathon and still hasn’t slept properly.”

Tea

Secret information or rumors. Spilling the tea means sharing it. “Okay, what’s the tea on why they unfollowed?”

Unc

Short for “uncle,” used to mock someone who is old or acting old. “You still say ‘on fleek’? Okay, unc.”

W

Short for “win.” Something good, a success, or a good take. “Paying his mods a real salary is a huge W.”

What’s next

Dictionary.com and Oxford both picked internet slang for 2025, so expect more creator words to end up in real dictionaries. We’ll update this list when a new one takes over the comments.