Friday, December 5, 2025

Question of the Day #1332

“PROVE ME WRONG”: RAGE BAIT, VIOLENCE, AND MAKING PROGRESS
From the headline of this article at The Phoenix News.

  上記の文で、rage baitの意味は?
In the sentence above, what does "rage bait" mean?

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明日、ここに答えを書きます。
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Rage baitは、2025年のOxford Word of the Yearです。(日本の「流行語大賞」みたいなもの。)
本年の候補に挙げられた三つの用語は、age baitとaura farmingとbiohackだったですが、三日間にわたって3万人以上の投票や意見を加味しつつ、Oxford University Pressの有識者が選んだ単語はrage baitでした。  

解答

意味:
英辞郎によると、
レイジ・ベイト、怒りを誘う[あおる]餌◆人々の怒りや反感を意図的に引き出すためのコンテンツや投稿を指す。
   

Answer

According to the Cambridge Dictionary:
information, images, videos, etc. that are put on the internet to deliberately make people angry and to encourage them to reply online
 

Examples

  1. Some of those police brutality articles are pure rage bait.
  2. The AI-generated ragebait has been watched by millions of people.
  3. Rage-bait content has become a lucrative field.
  4. West’s song is a bleak cut even beyond the ragebait title. — August Brown, The Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2025
  5. Rage bait article worked, and giving it more traffic by sharing. Bump up that click through rate for ad revenue — Reddit.com, 20 Mar. 2025
   

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