summerfagとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

summerfag (plural summerfags)

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) A new, inexperienced, and presumably teenage user who joins an online community (especially 4chan) during the American school holidays (i.e. summer)
   • 2011, unidentified 4chan poster, quoted in Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     OP, kindly an hero [that is, kill yourself] immediately. As if anyone gives a fuck other than cancerous summerfags [also called noobs] like you

   • 2012, Ryan M. Milner, "The World Made Meme: Discourse and Identity in Participatory Media", dissertation submitted to the University of Kansas, page 214:

     […] a 'summerfag' is a high-school-age poster who disrupts 4chan's norms with inexperience during summer break).

   • 2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 145:

     By 2012, seasoned anons were constantly railing against the flood of “newfags” and “summerfags,” users ignorant of trolling culture (“summerfagging” implies that an anon just discovered the site, likely during summer vacation).

上位語

• newfag

参考

• Eternal September