Glazing (Slang)

About

Glazing is a slang term that's synonymous with dickriding and means to over-compliment and over-hype someone to the point of being seen as inferior to them due to hyperbolically cringe adoration. Other synonyms are "kiss-ass" and "suck-up." The word "glazing" is also indicative of intercourse, similar to "dickriding." Use of the term "glazing" first surfaced in Discord in late 2021 but became increasingly prominent on Twitch in 2022 due to streamers like Kai Cenat, xQc and Adin Ross using it. "Glazing" is often spammed in Twitch chats when the streamer is over-praising someone. The term is also used on TikTok, YouTube and Twitter.

Origin

On November 24th, 2021, Twitter^[1] user ratthws quote retweeted a QT from Twitter^[2] user JoeDaActivist who captioned a photo of Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse with, "He dickriding." Twitter^[1] user ratthws' QT instead read, "he glazing," and received six likes in 13 months (shown below). It is the first known use of the slang term "glazing" online.

In direct correspondence with Know Your Meme on December 6th, 2022, Twitter^[1] user ratthws and Twitter^[3] user fooliewitit (also known as countingcaskets) relayed information that the term "glazing" started in a Discord server named rigby runtz that the two co-admin. According to them, "glazing" is synonymous with "dickriding" and follows the visual of a donut being glazed. Discord messages from the server used the term "glazing" starting on November 23rd, 2021 (shown below).

Spread

Going into early 2022, the term received more usage on Twitter. For instance, on March 10th, 2022, Twitter^[4] user youngmir24_ tweeted, "Dis nigga gillie glazing the shit outta durk wtf," in reference to rappers Gillie Da King and Lil Durk. The tweet received 12 likes in nine months. On April 10th, Twitter^[5] user kxrahh2x_ tweeted a screenshot of an Instagram post from a fan of TikToker Jabril Evans (shown below, left), captioning it, "this is glazing on a whole other level bro what the actual fuck😭😂😭😂😭😂😂😂😂😂," and earning over 430 likes in eight months (shown below, right).

On July 18th, 2022, Twitter^[6] user iccydeeee captioned an Emo Wolf image with, "Niggas started glazing I would’ve pushed that man off the dock and sprinted back home," as a reply to a TikTok repost showing young men oddly praising an older man's brag. The reply received roughly 4,900 likes in five months (shown below).

"Glazing" on Twitch

Around the same time as the aforementioned tweet, "glazing" infiltrated the lingo of notable Twitch streamers, namely Duke Dennis and Kai Cenat. For instance, on August 10th, 2022, TikToker^[7] plebamvs2 reposted a clip from Kai Cenat's Twitch stream in which Kai and Duke used the word "glazing." Over the course of four months, the TikTok received roughly 54,000 plays and 10,800 likes.

In October 2022, more "glazing" clips from Kai Cenat's streams were reposted to YouTube and TikTok. For instance, on October 5th, 2022, YouTuber^[8] Plugs Don't Touch posted a clip of Kai explaining to fellow streamer xQc what "glazing" meant, earning roughly 2,100 views in two months (shown below, left). On October 6th, 2022, the YouTube^[9] channel xQc Clips posted a video from xQc's stream in which he humorously used the word "glazing" directly following him learning what it meant. Over the course of two months, the video received roughly 211,000 views (shown below, right).

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References