About

Goonette is an internet slang term used to describe a female "gooner," who is a person obsessed with edging and consuming explicit adult content. The term first appeared on Urban Dictionary in 2019, but gained wider traction in 2024-2025, especially on TikTok, where women began using the slang term to refer to themselves humorously or to thirst-trap. Media coverage, like a 2022 article in Input Magazine, began to explore the phenomenon of "goonettes" as a burgeoning subculture in the mid-2020s. Memes and discourse about "goonettes" continued to spread online in 2025, often portraying goonettes as an extreme form of online horniness, with the term evolving into both a stereotype and an ironic self-identifier.

Origin

On October 10th, 2019, Urban Dictionary^[1] user Patheticnikkij posted a definition of the term "Goonette" in October 2019, defining it as "A female who is so addicted to p--- […] that it takes over her life and takes too priority over everything including family and friends."

On April 4th, 2022, Input^[2] magazine published an article about "Goonettes," female "gooners" who had dedicated their lives to "edging" themselves to explicit adult content online.

On July 18th, 2023, Twitter^[3] / X user @biocompound posted a Woman Shutting the Door meme joking about how incels were rejecting "hoodrats," "autistic femcels" and "goonnettes" among others to live a life of "forced" celibacy. The meme received over 3,500 likes prior to deletion.

Spread

On April 26th, 2024, Redditor^[4] u/NihilistKnight posted a screenshot to the /r/RedscarePod subreddit for the Red Scare Podcast, showing an Instagram user asking if the book White Nights by Dostoevsky has any "smut" in it, gathering over 300 upvotes on a post that read, "Booktok goonettes hit a new low."

On November 4th, 2024, Redditor^[5] u/ToxicRozic posted an image of a car covered in suggestive anime stickers to the /r/Perth subreddit, writing, "Is This Your Car? Never Dreamed I'd See A Goonette-mobile up close and in real life." The post received over 80 upvotes and 30 comments in nine months.

Videos and jokes about women self-identifying as "goonettes" spread to TikTok^[6] in late 2024, as seen in a December 5th, 2025, post by TikToker @pokienico in which she calls herself "captain of goonettes." The post gathered over 33,000 likes in eight months.

Videos about "goonettes" continued into 2025, with TikToker^[7] @therealmight_ posting a video captioned, "Goonettes are worse than gooners," and gathering over 3.5 million plays and 400,000 likes in seven months.

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