Posting about someone without naming or tagging them, so they'll know but others won't.

One Of My Followers — a way to reference someone without naming them.

People who follow you and whom you follow back — a specific tier of online acquaintance.

Someone who reads a community or watches a stream without posting or commenting.

A one-sided relationship where you feel you know a creator or celebrity who doesn't know you exist.

A block of text copied and pasted repeatedly across the internet as a joke.

Short horror fiction written and circulated online, often presented as true.

A fictional endless maze of empty yellow office spaces, and the horror genre built around it.

The predictable decay of online platforms as they squeeze users and then business customers for profit.

The brief silence at the start of a video while the creator checks it's recording.

Deliberately withholding information about something to keep it from spreading.

Appealing to a very small, specific audience — usually said approvingly.

The accumulated backstory of a person, group or situation.

The thing you think about far more often than anyone would expect.

A period of deliberately putting yourself first and refusing to accommodate others.

A formative experience you have to go through — interfering would change who someone becomes.

A formative memory that shapes who you are — usually invoked about something trivial.

Publicly withdrawn support from someone after they said or did something objectionable.

Compulsively scrolling through bad news despite it making you feel worse.

So immersed in internet culture that your sense of what's normal has drifted from reality.

Go outside — an instruction to someone who's been online too long.

Please, thank you, prayer — or a high five, depending on who you ask.

Fruit and vegetable emoji used as body-part euphemisms.

A joke replacement for laughter emoji, meaning nothing at all.