What Does This Mean?
捨て垢 (sute-aka, also 捨てアカ or 捨てアカウント) is a Japanese internet term for a throwaway account made without revealing who owns it, on the assumption that it will be abandoned, reported or deleted. The main account kept long term is called 本垢. Throwaway accounts are used for abusive posts, which critics see as evasion of responsibility, and also for signing up to services with a free mail address to avoid spam.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""The abusive replies all came from a 捨て垢 that was frozen within a day.""
LORE & ORIGIN
垢 is a Japanese-input conversion of アカ, short for アカウント (account), and 捨て means "throwaway", so the term is "disposable account". The Weblio entry for 捨て垢 gives the definition, the alternative spellings, the two uses (abuse on social media and spam avoidance) and the contrast with 本垢; the Weblio entry for 垢 describes the account sense of the character. No dated first use is documented. Related account-type terms in the corpus are 裏垢 and 鍵垢.
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