thirst trapper

plural thirst trappers · alternative thirst-trapper

1. social mediaSomeone who posts thirst traps.

   Most often, the thirst trapper implies, like a person in a bar waving a hand in the air who announces, “Dopamine for everyone here, it's on the house.”.

   2022, Brian Boxer Wachler, Influenced: The Impact of Social Media on Our Perception, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 132

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   The theory goes like this: Now that AI can imitate thirst-trappers, rage-baiters, and hacky pop stars, a flood of AI-generated entertainment will overwhelm the attention economy, and the most cynical content creators will see their influence fade.

   2026 June 30, Spencer Kornhaber, “What AI Will Do to Art”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2026