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Software systems designed to detect and act against cheating in online games, the base term behind an entire family of more specific vocabulary like kernel-level anti-cheat, ban wave, and false ban.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"The anti-cheat update finally caught the aimbot users that had been ruining every match."
LORE & ORIGIN
Grown alongside competitive online gaming itself, becoming a standard, expected part of any multiplayer game's infrastructure rather than an optional add-on.
FIRST SEEN
1999
PEAK POPULARITY
2026 (Human Verification Internet)
CURRENT STATUS
Mainstream Gen Alpha Slang
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