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A deliberately bad take posted to provoke replies and ratios.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"That take is pure ratio bait, he knew exactly what he was doing."

LORE & ORIGIN

Social-media slang for a post crafted specifically to be so wrong or provocative that it invites a flood of dunking replies (a "ratio").

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2026-09
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