Internet
extremely online
What does extremely online mean?
Original of the three. Less of an insult than 'chronically' or 'terminally' online — more of a knowing label. The Extremely Online person gets every reference, knows every micro-celebrity feud, and can trace a meme back to the 2014 Vine. Often the trait of journalists, posters, and people who 'work in social'. Useful skill, slightly cursed life.
"Only an extremely online person would clock that the joke is about a 2016 Tumblr post about a horse."
Origin
Popularised by writer Katherine Miller (BuzzFeed News, 2019) describing a particular kind of internet-fluent person who exists mostly through posting.
Frequently asked questions
What does extremely online mean?
Being extremely online means you're fluent in every niche internet beef and reference that nobody offline has ever heard of.
How do you use extremely online in a sentence?
"You'd have to be extremely online to get that joke — it's three memes deep."
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