enter the chat

verb2

1. •
   (Internet) To abruptly appear.

   • Before Covid entered the chat, there were many situations where parents sent their sick children to school and to daycare because they wouldn't get paid if they didn't show up to work. — 2022
2. •
   (Internet, humorous) Used to draw attention to the existence or presence of something.

   • - Black people have no power in America. - Barack Obama has entered the chat.