OK I wanted to read up on WHY people zap. Apart from the dopamine hit I was guessing there's a usefulness in terms of creating and maintaining channels, which is good for the network and everybody on it, and helps keep payment costs down.

Instead what I came across was this:

"What are zaps?

NIP-57 defines a new note type called a lightning “Zap” that represents paid lightning invoice receipts sent by a lightning node called the zapper. Zap requests notes grab the data from a Lightning invoice, namely the payment amount, payee and payer and then forms a new event that can be captured by relays and displayed by clients."

Does anyone else think we need a new word for an explanation that makes things MUCH harder to understand and leaves you wishing you hadn't asked? Wikipedia is full of them.