[ FORUM CULTURE ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]
"In before" — originally posted to leave a mark in a thread expected to be locked, deleted, or buried soon, now generalized to mean predicting what's about to happen or what someone's about to say before it does.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"Inb4 someone says this exact same thing already got posted yesterday."
LORE & ORIGIN
Coined for the specific act of posting "in before the lock" on threads anticipated to be closed by moderators, later broadening into a general prediction format.
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2004
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[ FORUM CULTURE ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]
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