The Oxford University Press promises it's not rage baiting with its two-word Word of the Year. The publishing house announced on Dec. 1 that its experts have named "rage bait" the 2025 Word of the ...

It shouldn't come as a surprise that the Oxford Dictionary has named "rage bait" its Word of the Year. The quantity of live-streamed drama in 2025 has made it clear that outrage is now fueling much ...

Not long ago, making people angry was a bad idea. Nowadays, rage is a hot commodity. Time it right and you can build a whole media empire or political machine on some well-cultivated fury. At the very ...

You’re scrolling through Instagram when you see it: someone mixing entire bottles of bleach, Pine-Sol and dish soap into a toxic stew to “clean” their sink. Or maybe it’s a recipe video where the ...

Take a deep breath and think of your happy place: "rage bait" is the 2025 Oxford Word of the Year. After three days of online voting by more than 30,000 participants, Oxford University Press announced ...

The Oxford University Press is shining a light on the more toxic side of internet culture by choosing “rage bait” as its 2025 Word of the Year. Oxford’s language experts, who are the brains behind the ...

Source: Walther. ChatGTP. 2025 “Rage bait” becoming Oxford’s Word of the Year 2025 offers a psychological X-ray of (the anglophone parts of) society today. Defined as online content “deliberately ...