samefag
Someone who replies to their own post on 4chan pretending to be a different user.
Noun
- Someone who replies to their own post on 4chan pretending to be a different user.
- The board (or possibly just a samefag?) had spoken: Tao Lin had won. - 2014, The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra, Morrisville, N.C.: Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 448:
- One early adaptation, for example, which appeared on 4chan in 2012, adds only the homophobic slur "SAMEFAG" to the image—a term commonly used on 4chan to denote a person on the site who creates multiple posts by...
- On /pol/, 4chan discursive practices, such as the calling out and isolation of an accused or alleged "samefag," become complicated processes. Though on other boards that have neither flags nor thread IDs, there are...
Origin
From same + -fag.
Forms
Verb
- To reply to one's own post on 4chan, pretending to be a different user.