Verb: "(Internet slang) to search for a person's name (particularly one's own) on a social media platform for the purpose of obsessively reading and engaging with posts containing it"
since ricky gervais namesearches: ricky gervais has the sociopolitical understanding of a 14-year-old boy who has just read richard dawkins' wikipedia page for the first time, & his stand-up is bad
2019 July 23, Casey (@CaseyExplosion), Twitter[5]:
It's good to remember that regardless of anything, you'll never be as fragile as Ricky Gervais namesearching himself.
Joanne won’t see the thousand of well thought out replies, evidence and pleas even if you @ her but if you call her a bitch she’ll namesearch herself and screenshot you so she can set her followers on you.
2022 May 24, Casey (@CaseyExplosion), Twitter[11]:
A while back I heard how he namesearches himself, so I unblocked him and said something to the effect of "was Ricky Gervais ever funny, or was he just Karl Pilkington's laugh track?" and I think it only took an hour for him to block me.
2022 December 17, Patrick Lenton (@PatrickLenton), Twitter[12]:
what is it with extremely wealthy people spending all their time being giant insecure babies on this site? Go buy a boat and set it on fire! Fill a room with diamonds and swim in it scrooge mcduck style! literally do anything else than namesearch and get upset
2022 November 15, Adam Ellis (@adamtotscomix), Twitter[13]:
You know Elon is namesearching himself in Slack and writing down names of people who make fun of him.
2022 November 29, Chaotina (@dankestofbread), Twitter[14]:
Imagine being a gazillionaire and namesearching yourself on Twitter, how sad is that
2023 March 18, Ursula K LeChina (@Java_jigga), Twitter[15]:
Max Landis keeps namesearching my mutuals tweets, nonzero chance he knows about Blax Landis