Follow-up to my sibling comment as it’s too late to edit: I don’t really have much exposure to in-the-wild usage of the term, but I’m pretty sure you’re correc

Follow-up to my sibling comment as it’s too late to edit: I don’t really have much exposure to in-the-wild usage of the term, but I’m pretty sure you’re correct about the meaning, and once I thought about it a bit more and the weird way the word is used and how it’s glued together, I came up with the following: I have no way to verify this, but my folk etymology of nerd sniping is a type of snipe hunt targeted at nerds specifically. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt