You know that feeling when you read something online and it seems deliberately provocative, almost manufactured to create outrage? You may have just encountered “rage bait” – content deliberately ...

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Oxford Languages has chosen “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year, citing a surge in provocative online content designed ...

Oxford, producer of the famous dictionary and expert in languages, has selected the internet slang "rage bait" as the word of the year. It means "online content deliberately designed to elicit anger ...

"rage bait" the 2025 Word of the Year. The phrase is shorthand for online content that is intentionally meant to ...