Redditarian
English
[edit | edit source]Etymology
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- Cyrillic: редитэриан
- Hangul: 레디테리언
- Katakana: レディテリアン
Noun
[edit | edit source]Redditarian (plural Redditarians)
- 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 Reddit.
- A person whose beliefs are shaped by, and tend to reflect, the dominant attitudes of the Reddit user base; those views most likely to receive upvotes and stay within the bounds of what moderators tolerate.
- An advocate for the social media platform Reddit.
Usage notes
[edit | edit source]- 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
[edit | edit source]- 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.