A person who thinks they are good at optimizing their electronics, computers and other equipment, but suffer severely from confirmation bias. Bientists "buy into" ridiculous, half-baked and often overkill solutions usually out of a combination of impatience and arrogance. Rather than doing any verifiable research or empirical experimentation, they base their techniques on correlations, isolated incidents and things they read once on a forum, usually posted by other bientists. If a confirmation bientists finds another confirmation bientist with the same ideas, their ignorance is locked in for life. See also: bientist.
Any confirmation bientist will tell you that disabling all the services in Microsoft Windows and turning off automatic updates will make everything run better and faster with minimal internet lag.
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While nearly all ppl & occurrences that garner this label are quite literally as far away from being Illuminati as humanly (or otherworldly) possible, there's still this sort of pseudo-esotericism overly applied to just about everything by netizens. No they truly _don't_ belong to a secret society conveniently born in Bavaria in the same year as the United States gained its independence from Britain. or y'know, yeah! they do! ...'cause who am i to question our illustrious, malevolent overlords...
It is used with great flexibility in the online world, particularly in the gaming arena, to simultaneously:
* troll naive children
* poke fun at conspiracy theorists
* invoke (mild... at best) lulz
Source: I'm the Princess of the Dark Underbelly of the Internet / Mistress of the Multiverse, who shall remain unnamed, 'cause otherwise your head would asplode (leaving only a pulsating third eye)
scrub 1: I saw Katy Gaga-Cyrus take off her mask backstage to reveal that she's Reptilian!
scrub 2: Illuminati Confirmed!
normal person 1: tha fuck?
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The defining factor of whether something is true or not is based solely on this. If CNN has not confirmed it it isn't true, but if CNN confirmed it it is fact.
Guy 1: Is Michael Jackson dead?
Guy 2: Yes, CNN confirmed it.
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Words used to avoid completely and confidently confirming something
Maybe youβre kind of right about the definition for confirmation deflector
People who are extremely obsessed with meme usage such as βbruhβ or just have Reddit humor in general
Hey man, look at all the Reddit confirms over there playing Among us and saying βbruhβ
The most popular way of verifying unconfirmed facts, rumors, and unproven assertions by anyone. If it's in Google, then it might have merit. Although, it should be noted that reading the actual articles is completely different from just reading the search results and webpage titles, so the facts might still remain unconfirmed.
I just Google-and-confirmed it, the search results say that Justin Bieber is, as a matter of fact, gay.
Groupie Fan Girl: No way! You just checked the search results and didn't read the articles, it's not true!
A phrase that a stan of an artist uses to show that the artists new work of music is already projected to be one of the greatest.
*The first seconds of Astroworld start playing*
Travis Scott stans: OMG confirmed classic