Redditarian

English

Etymology

From Reddit, the American proprietary social news aggregation, forum, and social media platform, + the suffix -arian, used to denote a person associated with, characterized by, or adhering to a given system, group, or tendency.

Transliteration

• Cyrillic: редитэриан
• Hangul: 레디테리언
• Katakana: レディテリアン

Noun

Redditarian (plural Redditarians)

1. A person whose beliefs reflect the consensus most likely to receive upvotes and avoid moderation within the American proprietary social news aggregation, forum, and social media platform Template:W.
2. A participant in Reddit discourse whose opinions are shaped by a combination of subreddit norms, moderator policies, and algorithmic visibility.
3. An advocate for the social media platform Reddit.

Usage notes

• The term is often used critically or semi-satirically.
• It usually refers not to the average opinion of all Reddit users, but to the opinions most visibly rewarded or socially reinforced on the reddit platform.
• Usually the term may implies conformity.

Example sentences

• His political instincts felt less independently formed than Redditarian, as though they had been assembled from whatever opinions were most likely to earn upvotes and avoid deletion.
• She spoke in a distinctly Redditarian register, repeating miquetoast claims tailored to appeal to stereotypical Reddit power mods.

Related terms

• Reddit
• algorithmic visibility

See also

• -arian
• redditor