What is paperclipping? A small, low-stakes reappearance after silence.
Paperclipping is when someone who went quiet reappears with something tiny and low-stakes — a meme, a "saw this and thought of you" — just enough to test if the door's still open, without actually committing to anything. It's a softer cousin of zombieing: less "hey, how've you been," more a quiet little hook dropped in to see if you bite.
