Someone whose online persona is a con — a grifter — applied since 2016 to pundits, coaches, crypto founders and anyone selling a course. The record's entry for the century-old word that the internet revived because it needed it.
The record notes 'grift' is now the standard accusation for any online income, and that it is sometimes fair and always satisfying to say.
I remember when Grifter was still a niche thing — 2016 — and you could use it without a footnote. The footnote arrived about six weeks later and never left.
The record spells it one way; the original post spelled it another. I would keep the original, typo and all. The typo is the provenance.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
