What Does 'Karma' Mean?

[ SOCIAL MEDIA ][ ATTENTION ECONOMY ]

FORCE: Attention EconomyUNIVERSE: Social MediaCLUSTER: Reddit Reputation Economy

Reddit's cumulative score of upvotes minus downvotes attached to a user's account, functioning as a persistent, publicly visible reputation number rather than tied to any single post.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"Ten years on the platform and somehow still barely any karma to show for it."

LORE & ORIGIN

Reddit's implementation of an upvote/downvote reputation system, itself an evolution of earlier community karma systems like Slashdot's.

FIRST SEEN

2005

PEAK POPULARITY

2026 (Social Media)

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Gen Alpha Slang

Related To:Karma Farming Upvote

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EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

中文 zh-CNKarma →日本語 ja-JPカルマ →한국어 ko-KR카르마 →Español es-ESkarma →Português pt-BRkarma →Français fr-FRkarma →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

↑ HIGH RISING FAST · HIGH

CULTURE CATEGORY

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MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

2005

NOW

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