Extremely online
[4] While the term was in use as early as 2014, it gained use over the latter half of the 2010s in conjunction with the increasing prevalence and notability of Internet phenomena in all areas of life.
For example, the term "alt-right" was added to the Associated Press' stylebook in 2016 to describe the "digital presence" of far-right ideologies,[9] the dirtbag left refers to a group of "underemployed and overly online millennials" who "have no time for the pieties of traditional political discourse",[10] and the doomer's "blackpilled[11] despair"[8] is combined with spending "too much time on message boards in high school"[8] to produce an eclectic "anti-socialism".
For example, right-wing figures like Alex Jones[12] and Laura Loomer[12] have been described as "extremely online", but so have those on the left like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez[13] and fans of the Chapo Trap House podcast.
[14][15] Extremely online phenomena can range from acts of offline violence (such as the 2019 Christchurch shootings[16]) to "[going] on NPR to explain the anti-capitalist irony inherent in kids eating Tide Pods".
[24] Throughout the 2010s, posters such as dril inspired commonly used terms like "corncobbing" (referring to someone losing an argument and failing to admit it);[27][28][29] while originally a piece of obscure Internet slang used on sites like Twitter, use of the term (and controversy over its misinterpretation) became a subject of reporting from traditional publications, with some noting[30] that keeping up with the rapid turnover of inside jokes, memes, and quotes online required daily attention to avoid embarrassment.
[34] The 2021 storming of the United States Capitol was described as extremely online, with "pro-Trump internet personalities", such as Baked Alaska,[35] and fans livestreaming and taking selfies.
