{"id":292824,"date":"2025-12-01T10:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:08:13","slug":"rage-bait-named-word-of-the-year-2025-by-oxford-university-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/292824\/","title":{"rendered":"Rage bait named word of the year 2025 by Oxford University Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last year&#8217;s word of the year, brain rot, captured the mental drain of mindless scrolling on Instagram or TikTok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Grathwohl said both 2024 and 2025&#8217;s winners have a similar theme.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Together, they form a powerful cycle where outrage sparks engagement, algorithms amplify it, and constant exposure leaves us mentally exhausted,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Previous Oxford words of the year have included selfie, goblin mode and rizz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cambridge Dictionary has declared <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvgmv877746o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parasocial<\/a> its word of 2025, which it defined as a relationship felt by someone between themselves and a famous person they do not know.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Its examples include the interest displayed by fans when pop star Taylor Swift and American footballer Travis Kelce announced their engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, Collins Dictionary went for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cpd2y053nleo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vibe coding<\/a>, which is the art of making an app or website by describing it to artificial intelligence rather than by writing programming code manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year&#8217;s word of the year, brain rot, captured the mental drain of mindless scrolling on Instagram or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-292824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}