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shape rotator (plural shape rotators)

1. (Internet slang) Someone with high mathematical and technical skills, often portrayed as rivals to the wordcels (who have stronger language and verbal skills).

   Synonyms: numbercel, mathcel

   Coordinate term: wordcel

   • 2022 February 7, Matthew Gault, “OK, WTF Are Wordcels and Shape Rotators?”, in VICE‎, archived from the original on 2023-06-30:

     Much of America’s culture war can be cynically flattened and viewed through the lens of these two words; “woke” wordcels live in the land of philosophy and books and liberal colleges, clinging to ideals espoused in their precious books, tweeting about Wordle, while shape rotators are out here coding, building businesses, doing engineering, etc. etc.

   • 2023 January 5, “Tesla suffers from the boss’s fixation on Twitter”, in The Washington Post‎, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 January 2023:

     You can think of Musk's acquisition of Twitter as the latest sortie, a takeover of the ultimate wordcel site by the world's most successful shape rotator.

Further reading

• “Wordcel / Shape Rotator / Mathcel”, in Know Your Meme, launched 2007
• “shape rotator”, in Urban Dictionary, launched 1999.