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vaguepost
What does vaguepost mean?
To post something deliberately cryptic — 'wow. some people.' or 'guess I know now.' — so followers slide in asking what happened. Plausible deniability and attention in one move.
"She's been vagueposting all week, somebody check on her."
Origin
Started life as 'vaguebooking' on Facebook in the late 2000s — posting deliberately mysterious status updates so people would ask what was wrong. As the action moved off Facebook the verb generalised to 'vaguepost' and now lives on Twitter, TikTok and Instagram Stories.
Frequently asked questions
What does vaguepost mean?
It's posting something cryptic that's designed to fish for concerned 'are you okay?' DMs.
How do you use vaguepost in a sentence?
"She keeps vagueposting sad song lyrics instead of just telling us what's wrong."
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