Etymology

hellthread

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Today it means: An excessively long thread on a social media platform. Full definition →

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The story

Compound of hell + thread. Compare hellsite. Popularized in the social network Bluesky around 2023.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.