What Does This Mean?

/t

[ SLANG ][ TONE INDICATOR ][ SOCIAL MEDIA ]

FORCE: Gen Z BrainrotUNIVERSE: Internet SlangCLUSTER: tone_indicator

A tone indicator typed at the end of a message to mark teasing: the sender is poking fun in a friendly way and does not mean it as an attack. A more specific variant, /frt, means friendly teasing. It is used in online communities and by people who find tone hard to read in plain text, including many neurodivergent users.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

""Your cooking skills are legendary, the smoke alarm agrees /t""

LORE & ORIGIN

Wikipedia's article on tone indicators lists /t for teasing alongside /gen, /p and /r, and notes that such tags are especially popular with neurodivergent people. It gives no date for this tag. The tags are community-made and not standardised, so lists differ on related variants.

FIRST SEEN

Unknown (Wikipedia gives no date for /t)

PEAK ERA (EDITORIAL)

2020s

CURRENT STATUS

Mainstream Slang

Related To:/neg /pos Tone Policing

Leer en español →Lire en français →日本語版を読む →한국어판 보기 →Ler em português →阅读中文版 →

EQUIVALENT CONCEPTS IN OTHER LANGUAGES

Español es-ESno fixed local term →Français fr-FRno fixed local term →日本語 ja-JPno fixed local term →한국어 ko-KRno fixed local term →Português pt-BRno fixed local term →中文 zh-CNno fixed local term →

AURA IMPACT ⓘ

+1 AURA

TREND STATUS

→ STEADY

EDITORIAL ESTIMATE

CULTURE CATEGORY

[ SLANG ][ TONE INDICATOR ][ SOCIAL MEDIA ]

RELATED TERMS

MENTIONS OVER TIME

DOCUMENTED SINCE

Unknown (Wikipedia gives no date for /t)

NOW

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