Ah, 2025, the year humanity finally got an official dictionary stamp on what we’ve all been doom-scrolling through for ages: “rage bait.” Oxford University Press, those cheeky linguists, crowned this deliciously infuriating term as Word of the Year, beating out “aura farming” and “biohack.” It’s that sneaky online content engineered to make your blood boil faster than a kettle—provocative posts designed purely to hijack your emotions and rack up clicks. Coming hot off last year’s “brain rot,” it seems Oxford is basically diagnosing our collective internet addiction one viral outrage at a time. Congratulations, humans: we’ve evolved from curiosity clicks to full-on emotional manipulation. Who’s ready to get productively furious?
Oxford Dictionary publisher reveals Word of the Year 2025 – do you know it?
