subathon
A livestream marathon (often on Twitch) whose length grows each time a viewer subscribes, sometimes running for days.
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A livestream marathon (often on Twitch) whose length grows each time a viewer subscribes, sometimes running for days.
His subathon hit 96 hours before he finally crashed out.
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A slang portmanteau describing a prolonged, marathon session of chatting — whether in person, on the phone, or across messaging apps. Modelled on "marathon" and the popular "-athon" suffix used for extended events (talkathon, hackathon), a chatathon is what happens when a conversation meant to last twenty minutes stretches into hours of catching up, gossiping, or debate. The word has natural appeal in an era of DMs and group chats that never really end.
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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.
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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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(slang, rare) A long period of chatting.
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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'.