Reply Guy
what it means
Not quite harassment, but persistent enough to be noticed. The archetype is a man who responds to every post by a woman with unsolicited correction or flirtation.
Someone who replies to a specific account's every post, usually unprompted and usually a man.
the origin story
Twitter vocabulary from around 2017-2018, naming a pattern the platform's public replies made highly visible.
The term named something users had noticed for years without a word for it. It spawned taxonomies — the "well actually" reply guy, the "correcting your own field" reply guy — and became one of the more precise pieces of platform-behaviour vocabulary.
in the wild
He's replied to every single post she's made this month.
Textbook reply guy.
He explained her own research to her.
The worst subspecies.
how to use it
- Describing persistent unsolicited replies
- Discussing platform behaviour
- Casual conversation
- About anyone who replies to posts normally
- As a way to shut down genuine engagement
- Professionally
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