What Does This Mean?
特定厨 (tokutei-chū) is a derogatory Japanese internet label for a user who is fixated on working out the real identity behind an anonymous poster, piecing together clues from comments or images such as the person's area, school or workplace. The suffix 厨 marks someone as excessively obsessed. Identifying people this way is widely seen as a privacy violation, and the label is used by critics.
REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
""Someone posted a blurry photo and the 特定厨 replies started within minutes.""
LORE & ORIGIN
The Weblio entry describes 特定厨 as slang for a person who tries to identify the real person behind an anonymous post by combining fragments of information, typically targeting the poster's home area, school or employer, and calls it derogatory. It is built from 特定 (identification) and the slang suffix 厨 (an obsessive devotee). No dated first use is documented. The existing 特定班 entry names groups that identify people from clues; this entry is the individual obsessive label. The word describes the behaviour and does not endorse it.
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