What Does This Mean?
Literally "internet mouth substitute"; a netizen whose comment says exactly what many others were thinking but could not or did not want to say. Readers praise such a commenter as their 嘴替, a spokesperson who put their feelings into words.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"这条评论说出了我想说的，真是互联网嘴替。"
LORE & ORIGIN
嘴替 began as a film-production term for a stand-in for close-ups of the mouth, and was extended in the 2020s to people who voice others' thoughts. The China Project's roundup of 2022 internet buzzwords explains 嘴替 as someone who says what others think but cannot say, for fear of saying it wrongly, being censored or lacking the words, and gives 互联网嘴替 as the online version. No single first use is documented.
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