also ai;dw for slop videos 😄
this post was submitted on 08 Apr 2026
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yt;dw YouTube, didn’t watch
cb;dc Clickbait, didn’t click
ac;dc The only chords they know.
Oi!!
The only chords they ~~know~~ need.
i'd aim that at the gin blossoms before acdc too. it took their guitarist 3 albums to learn a fourth chord
There's a G in Highway To Hell, and Thunderstruck is almost entirely a B chord.
🤣 it's funny because it's true!
Lol that's funny! I totally get it. But could someone explain the abbreviation for those that don't...
it’s a variant on TL;DR (too long; didn’t read), which people post when what you wrote was too long for them to bother with
so the new one, AI;DR, means "what you posted is ai so i’m not going to bother to read it"
I have also seen it used as the indicator for a summary like I have done below. As in the person knows what they wrote was too long for some people so here is a short version too. Similarly I have seen TL;DW to indicate a video summary.
TL;DR - Sometimes it’s used by OP.
it’s true (honestly what you said is what i’ve seen the most), and i’ve seen it as a way to ask for a summary as well (replying to a long post with "tl;dr?")
but i don’t really see both of those as relevant to ai;dr tbh, so i didn’t mention them
Or someone will ask for a tl;dr
Here I thought in OP’s case, they were requesting an ai summary.
This is AI, Don't Read
It's derived from tl;dr, which is Too Long; Didn't Read. It's not instruction telling you to ignore it, it's an abbreviated way of saying, "I recognize this as AI slop that I'm not going to waste my time reading."
That's what I said. Its a warning to others that it's AI and to not bother.
idk posting "ai;dr" as a reply is not functionally different from posting "ai" other than needing three more characters to type.
I think it's useful. it explicitly calls out that somebody didn't consume the content.
to you, that might be obvious. to others, not so much
its more cool duh
Plus commenting any of that is providing engagement and therefore increasing the reach the post will have. Ignore and report, even bullshit reports since nobody offers a "this is ai, get this cancer off this platform" button are the best ways to respond.
Replying at all generates traction unfortunately. That's why there are so many hate channels, rage bait, fear mongering. It gets views and attention.
at;rq
Adopt that; right quick!
When I first read this I misunderstood it to mean "too long so I used ai to summarize it"... So maybe that potential to misunderstand is a counterargument to its use.
Then again maybe I'm just dumb haha.
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