Sub train
A self-reinforcing wave of subscriptions to a channel: one person subscribes, others react, more sub to keep the chain going, often gifting subs along the way.
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A self-reinforcing wave of subscriptions to a channel: one person subscribes, others react, more sub to keep the chain going, often gifting subs along the way. Streamers sometimes explicitly call out a sub train and react in real time, which fuels more subs. Pairs naturally with gifted-sub culture.
huge sub train going right now, 40 in 10 minutes
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A coordinated series of channel raids organised in advance: streamer A ends their stream by raiding streamer B, who later raids streamer C, and so on. Often used by smaller streamers to boost each other's viewership. The 'train' is sometimes scheduled with a hashtag and shared spreadsheet of times.
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A subscription paid for by one viewer on behalf of another (a random chatter or a specific user). Gifted subs unlock the channel's emotes, badges, and ad-free viewing for the recipient. Big-spending viewers will gift 5, 50, even thousands of subs in a single drop, often triggering a sub train. Frequently shortened to 'gifty' or 'gifted'.
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(Internet slang) On the video-sharing service YouTube, the practice of subscribing to a person's channel in exchange for said person mutually subscribing back to one's channel, often with the goal of artificially inflating one's subscriber count.
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A vintage black steam locomotive. On TikTok it's become algospeak for a gangbang — "running a train" — and tends to appear in teen contexts as a coded reference to adult sexual content. Mostly used by under-18s trying to dodge platform filters. Read with concern when it shows up in teen messages or comment sections. The literal train-the-vehicle meaning is essentially absent in youth use.
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A livestream marathon (often on Twitch) whose length grows each time a viewer subscribes, sometimes running for days.