Beth But now, a new trend called rage bait is spreading across social media. Rage bait is online content designed to make you angry or outraged. In this programme, we’ll explore the trend of ...

Getty Images Joining Melcher is Winta Zesu, a creator who according to a recent BBC interview made $150,000 (€143,159.14) from posting rage bait on social media last year. In her videos ...

Every time I open X, I’m greeted by a troth of gender war slop. Every day, it’s the same reheated arguments about “body count,” also known as the number of sexual partners, or whether a ...

But one online enclave shares meal ideas that are anything but appetizing. Rage-bait recipes take familiar food video formats and subvert them into frustrating, grotesque parodies of the real thing.

However, since then, TikTok has become the platform where so-called “rage-bait influencers” have found newfound success. By ...