Meanings
plural /b/tards · alternative b-tard
- Internet4chan slangA habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.
not to sound insulting, but are you a /b/tard by any chance?
2006 July 1, nikolai kingsley, rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <4gmmmbF1n9jlsU1@individual.net>2 more examples
Poole’s efforts to rein in some of the chaos earned him scorn not just from the /b/tards but also from the largest collective of wired rebels in the world, Anonymous, which had first coalesced on 4chan around 2006 as a kind of inside joke (“Anonymous” is the default handle on 4chan).
2015 March 13, David Kushner, “4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away”, in Rolling StoneSlaughter, described by /b/tards as a "lulzcow ... whore," is now memorialized on Urban Dictionary as "The epitome of an eleven year old slut / poser / internet reject / scenecore wannabe."
2015, Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous, page 44Synonyms: /b/ro
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.
Origin
From /b/ - Random, an imageboard on 4chan. It combines a humorously censored version of bastard with /b/, while rhyming with retard. /b/ itself derives its name from the Futaba Channel (2chan) equivalent.
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/b/tard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%2Fb%2Ftard
“/b/tard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%2Fb%2Ftard. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “/b/tard,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/%2Fb%2Ftard.
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