glazing

What it means

Glazing is praising someone so hard it becomes uncomfortable to watch — defending them past all reason, calling them the best ever, refusing to hear anything against them. It is almost always said as a criticism of the person doing the praising, not the person being praised.

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Examples

• He's the third best player on the team, stop glazing.
• The comments are pure glazing, nobody's being honest.
• I'm not glazing, I'm just saying the album is good.
• Every stream turns into forty minutes of glazing.

Where it comes from

Grew out of gaming and streaming chat around 2022-2023, where it described viewers heaping praise on a streamer. It spread to sports and music discussion, and by 2024 was general online usage.

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