summerfag

summer +‎ -fag

summerfag (plural summerfags)

1. (Internet slang, derogatory) A new, inexperienced, and presumably teenage user who joins an online community (especially 4chan) during the summer
   • 2011, unidentified 4chan poster, quoted in Cole Stryker, Epic Win for Anonymous: How 4chan's Army Conquered the Web, The Overlook Press (2011), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

     OP, kindly an hero [that is, kill yourself] immediately. As if anyone gives a fuck other than cancerous summerfags [also called noobs] like you

   • 2012, Ryan M. Milner, "The World Made Meme: Discourse and Identity in Participatory Media", dissertation submitted to the University of Kansas, page 214:

     […] a 'summerfag' is a high-school-age poster who disrupts 4chan's norms with inexperience during summer break).

   • 2015, Whitney Phillips, This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture, MIT Press (2015), →ISBN, page 145:

     By 2012, seasoned anons were constantly railing against the flood of “newfags” and “summerfags,” users ignorant of trolling culture (“summerfagging” implies that an anon just discovered the site, likely during summer vacation).

• newfag