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 ...

"Rage bait" edged out "biohack" and "aura farming" to become the word of the year. (woocat / Getty Images) Take a deep breath and think of your happy place: "rage bait" is the 2025 Oxford Word of the ...

Oxford named "rage bait" the word of the year for 2025. Rage bait refers to online content created to evoke anger by being frustrating, to boost online engagement. In 2022, the word was first used to ...

In a move reflecting the darker side of the social-media era, Oxford University Press has named "rage bait" as its 2025 Word of the Year. (It's actually two words, but don't let that send you into a ...

The 2025 selection follows its predecessors, "brain rot" from 2024, "rizz" from 2023 and "goblin mode" from 2022. Take a deep breath and think of your happy place: "rage bait" is the 2025 Oxford Word ...