lulzfag
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]lulzfag (plural lulzfags)
- (Internet slang) A person, especially a member of Anonymous, who causes disruption or attacks a target for amusement rather than as a principle-based protest or demonstration.
- 2009 September 21, Julian Dibbell, The Assclown Offensive: How to Enrage the Church of Scientology:
- Since the beginning of the campaign, there'd been a tension between its "lulzfags," who held that Anonymous must have no higher cause than its own cruel amusement, and the "moralfags," for whom the cause of fighting an oppressive cult was an end in itself.
- 2012 June 22, Quinn Norton, “How Anonymous Picks Targets, Launches Attacks, and Takes Powerful Organizations Down”, in Wired:
- With the rise of the moralfags, some lulzfags drifted away.
- 2013 October 23, Jasper Hamill, “Is Anonymous Suffering An Identity Crisis?”, in Forbes:
- “Moralfags attack and protest based solely on issues involving freedom on the internet and in real life,” he explained. “Lulzfags attack whoever the hell they want, whenever the hell they want, simply for the bonus of the lulz.”