Receipts
Screenshots, messages, photos, recordings, or other evidence used to support a claim or expose what actually happened.
“She brought the receipts and posted the original messages that proved the story was false.”
People ask for receipts when they want evidence rather than rumors. The term is especially common in online arguments, celebrity drama, callout posts, and relationship disputes.
Receipt has long meant a written record of a transaction. Black and queer communities helped popularize the figurative sense of documented proof, and reality television and social media spread it widely.
bring the receipts
Provide evidence that supports what you are claiming.
show the receipts
Reveal screenshots, messages, or other proof.
no receipts
A criticism that someone has made a claim without evidence.
Do receipts have to be screenshots?
No. They can be messages, videos, photos, documents, timestamps, or any other evidence.
Is asking for receipts rude?
It can be confrontational, but it may also be a reasonable request for proof when a claim is disputed.
Why are they called receipts?
A store receipt documents what happened in a transaction, so the slang extends that idea to evidence in general.