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)

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

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.