What's on your mug?

To limit how much control a certain party/person has in a collective identity or activity. Usually carried out with undue pettiness or resentment. Instead of using their knowledge about a particular subject to improve their lives or help others, gatekeepers attain a sense of accomplishment by arbitrarily judging what is and isn't "real".

*A normal social media comment section* A: "Who watches anime in DUB?? It's so cringe and sounds completely forced. I would know! I am studying to be a translator. I have been consuming Japanese media for over 25 years! I can tell you that the speech sounds wrong and ruins the personality of the characters!! If you were a real anime fan you would just watch SUB!!" B: "Niggas be hating on their own language and gatekeeping ANIME. Subs are hard to watch when eating. I can only watch while eating food because I'm not a bum ass nigga with nothing to do besides beat my meat while hugging a life-size waifu pillow and managing my kittens on discord." And thus, two members of the same community who could have been friendly toward each other are now enemies due to the consequences of gatekeeping.

By Coco-onthe-LoLo

The act of withholding information or refusing to help someone to further your own advancement or prevent theirs for selfish gain.

Stop gatekeeping and tell me where you got that sandwich.

By TheLogarithm

a thing abby does with mitski towards Haley

“SHE CANT LISTEN TO MITSKI NO MITSKI FOR HALEY” “it’s Haley-Keeping” gatekeeping

By iavjxnajana

I don’t really wanna tell you, it’s kinda my thing and I don’t really want other people to know about it. Nothing personal.

I’m don’t really think y’all need to know how to use it in a sentence, sorry. Gatekeeping is my thing.

By pinglenis

You aren't more deserving of success than I am and you don't care that the retard is suceeding arbitrarily because his cock is fat do you?

Hym "Your commitment to pretending the gatekeeping is a response to ANYTHING OTHER THAN disparaging your religion is admirable. I may be a psychopathic narcissist but we are not as different as you like to pretend. Which is why the mental breakdown. This isn't a tantrum. I'm not a toddler. I SAID THAT ABOUT THE RETARD AND NOW YOU'RE ATTRIBUTING IT TO ME. I SAID HE WAS A TODDLER AND NOW YOU'RE ATTRIBUTING TO ME. I AM NOT THAT RETARD. And like heat, what I said does not apply in reverse. When I said I'd show him a temper tantrum I was obviously talking about the murdering of him in a fit of rage and not this thing I'm doing here. It's just pretending Jordan. Plugging your ears and chanting 'lalala can't hear you! Lalala!' Until I go away. It's ridiculous!"

By Hym Iam