YTA
An acronym from Reddit's r/AmITheAsshole (AITA) subreddit, standing for 'You're The Asshole' — the verdict delivered by the community when they judge the original poster to be in the wrong in a described conflict.
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An acronym from Reddit's r/AmITheAsshole (AITA) subreddit, standing for 'You're The Asshole' — the verdict delivered by the community when they judge the original poster to be in the wrong in a described conflict. It's one of several verdict labels used on the sub (alongside NTA, ESH, NAH, INFO). 'YTA' has leaked beyond Reddit into broader internet usage as a general shorthand for calling out someone's bad behaviour in a conflict or interpersonal dispute. It's direct, punchy, and carries a community-judgement feel.
I read the whole post and honestly? YTA — you can't cancel on someone's birthday dinner with two hours' notice.
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A Reddit acronym meaning You're the Asshole, used as the negative verdict on the r/AmITheAsshole subreddit where users submit interpersonal conflict scenarios for community judgment. YTA has escaped Reddit into wider internet usage as a shorthand for declaring that someone is clearly in the wrong in a social situation. It carries the weight of collective community judgment. The verdict system — YTA vs. NTA (Not the Asshole) — has become a widely recognized framework for summarizing interpersonal moral assessments online.
The top comment simply said YTA and had forty thousand upvotes before anyone else had finished reading the post.
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(Internet slang, Reddit slang).
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- AITA86%
Am I the asshole? The defining phrase of Reddit's r/AmItheAsshole community, where users describe an interpersonal conflict and ask strangers to judge whether they behaved badly. Verdicts come back tagged as YTA (you're the asshole), NTA (not the asshole), ESH (everyone sucks here) or NAH (no assholes here). The format has become so recognisable that "AITA?" now functions as a generic format outside Reddit too.
- ESH67%
An internet and Reddit slang acronym standing for 'Everyone Sucks Here' — a verdict used in the Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole (AITA) to indicate that all parties in a described conflict behaved badly. Unlike NTA (not the asshole) or YTA (you're the asshole), ESH assigns blame to everyone involved. It has spread beyond Reddit into broader online discourse about interpersonal disputes.
- NAH66%
On Reddit and in broader internet slang, NAH stands for No Assholes Here — a verdict used in AITA (Am I The Asshole) posts to indicate nobody in a conflict behaved unreasonably. It is one of four standard judgment labels in that community. Outside Reddit the all-caps form still signals this specific usage rather than a simple informal no.