- upvote context
- Used in comments about energy-draining people, toxic relationships, or corporations/landlords metaphorically sucking people dry
- community use
- Active in r/goth, r/halloween, r/horror, r/darkromance, r/vampires, and r/amitheasshole (when describing a draining person)
- subreddit meaning
- In r/relationship_advice it signals an 'emotional vampire' dynamic; in r/goth it's pure aesthetic appreciation; in r/memes it's ironic capitalism critique
- karma context
- High-karma comments use it to punctuate savage takedowns of public figures or institutions accused of exploitation