verb
Internet Slang
vaguepost
· verb · internet
A cryptic post fishing for 'are you okay?' DMs.
0
Definitions
1
To post something deliberately cryptic — 'wow. some people.' or 'guess I know now.' — so followers slide in asking what happened. Plausible deniability and attention in one move.
“She's been vagueposting all week, somebody check on her.”
by community
0
2
As a noun, the post itself.
“I saw his vaguepost about 'fake friends' and immediately knew it was about me.”
by community
0
vaguepost In A Sentence
She's been vagueposting all week, somebody check on her.
I saw his vaguepost about 'fake friends' and immediately knew it was about me.
Origin & Usage
Started life as 'vaguebooking' on Facebook in the late 2000s — posting deliberately mysterious status updates so people would ask what was wrong. As the action moved off Facebook the verb generalised to 'vaguepost' and now lives on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram Stories.
Comments 0