Source: Walther. ChatGTP. 2025 “Rage bait” becoming Oxford’s Word of the Year 2025 offers a psychological X-ray of (the anglophone parts of) society today. Defined as online content “deliberately ...

Bournemouth University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. “Rage bait” has been named the word of the year by the Oxford University Press. It means social media content that is ...

You’re scrolling through Instagram when you see it: someone mixing entire bottles of bleach, Pine-Sol and dish soap into a toxic stew to “clean” their sink. Or maybe it’s a recipe video where the ...

Earlier this week, Oxford University Press named ‘rage bait’ as 2025’s Word of the Year (despite it actually being two words, ahem)… but over on socials, the concept is not exactly new. If you were on ...

Take a deep breath and think of your happy place: "rage bait" is the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year. After three days of online voting by more than 30,000 participants, Oxford University Press announced ...

The Oxford University Press defines "rage bait" as "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative or offensive, typically posted in order to ...

The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

The Oxford University Press is shining a light on the more toxic side of internet culture by choosing “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the ...

LONDON — Oxford University Press has named “rage bait’’ as its word of the year, capturing the internet zeitgeist of 2025. The phrase refers to online content that is “deliberately designed to elicit ...

‘Rage bait’ is the Oxford English Dictionary publisher’s Word of the Year for 2025. Oxford University Press analysis showed use of the phrase has tripled in the past 12 months. After 'brain rot' took ...

Previous words of the year include "podcast," "goblin mode" and "brain rot." The Oxford University Press has selected "rage bait" as its word of the year, in a nod to how easily digital indignation ...

And it has become so ubiquitous online that the Oxford Dictionary named “rage bait” as its Word of the Year on Sunday. Use of the term has increased threefold this year, suggesting people know “they ...