tripfagとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

tripfag (複数形 tripfags)

1. (インターネット・スラング, derogatory) A person who uses a tripcode to make their posts identifiable on a generally anonymous online community such as 4chan.
   • 2009 December 16, Onslaught Six [username], “Re: That veteran atter,named "patrick stewart,has fooled various TFsites,into thinking his 2010 TF info he posted weeks ago is true.some beliefhe's a hasbro worker/insider”, in alt.toys.transformers, Usenet^[1]:

     The original pic showed up on /toy/ on 4chan, which is generally anonymous (excepting tripfags) so the likelihood of it even being the same original poster is likely nil.

   • 2010, Andrew Brown, The Church of Anonymous^[2], ISBN 9781453663301, page 102:

     However, tripcodes weren't popular. The people who posted on the imagechan believed that anonymity was its strongest value, and ridiculed the "tripfags" that attempted to use a real name in an anonymous society.

   • 2012, Parmy Olson, We Are Anonymous: Inside the Hacker World of LulzSec, Anonymous, and the Global Cyber Insurgency, Little, Brown and Company (2012), ISBN 9780316213530, unnumbered page:

     A year after Shii wrote his essay, forced anonymity had become widely accepted on the image board. Anyone deemed a tripfag was quickly shot down and mocked.