ask me anything

noun

Etymology

This style of interview was popularized in the r/IAmA subreddit founded in 2009, where users post prompts for others to ask questions by stating who they are and adding the phrase “Ask me anything!”.

Definitions

1
An online interactive interview in which people can ask the interviewee questions about…
An online interactive interview in which people can ask the interviewee questions about any topic, typically through the website's comment system.
- Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, returned to Reddit this week for an Ask Me Anything that covered everything from net neutrality to memes to the online harassment of women.
- We volunteer our time to help manage the subsection called IAmA — a popular part of the site where thousands of interviews, known as “ask me anythings,” take place.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ask me anything. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA