2 definitions by DarnedIfYaDue
1. The exploitation of controversial and/or tragic circumstance for financial gain and/or social standing. ie: Manipulating emotional reaction in order to direct web traffic or else increase social media interaction. Usually requires limiting nuance of the topic and credible references to maximize emotional reaction and minimize critical thought, optimizing user interaction.
3. A highly effective tool used by media conglomerates with diversified interests in opposing political ideologies to create and maximize discrimination and polarization between targeted demographics and distract from the underlying bipartisan interests such as military and banking institutions.
3. The weapon of choice of pedantic, pseudo-intellectual bloggers to virtue-signal to their peers and codify their authoritarian ideology, ideally at the expense of someone's job, spouse, community, general sense of self-worth and financial security. The uprager typically enjoys exploring new brunch hotspots in their neighborhood, crocheting, self-grooming, and privately viewing increasingly intensive images of violent and humiliating pornography to overcome the libido suppressing effects of their antidepressant medications and/or the primal outlet of their unconscious frenzied antipathy.
5. The ambivalent desire to communicate sincere outrage on social media while preferring the reward of publicly acknowledged and quantifiable 'likes' and 'shares' to more meaningful and humane forms of interaction, in person.
3. A highly effective tool used by media conglomerates with diversified interests in opposing political ideologies to create and maximize discrimination and polarization between targeted demographics and distract from the underlying bipartisan interests such as military and banking institutions.
3. The weapon of choice of pedantic, pseudo-intellectual bloggers to virtue-signal to their peers and codify their authoritarian ideology, ideally at the expense of someone's job, spouse, community, general sense of self-worth and financial security. The uprager typically enjoys exploring new brunch hotspots in their neighborhood, crocheting, self-grooming, and privately viewing increasingly intensive images of violent and humiliating pornography to overcome the libido suppressing effects of their antidepressant medications and/or the primal outlet of their unconscious frenzied antipathy.
5. The ambivalent desire to communicate sincere outrage on social media while preferring the reward of publicly acknowledged and quantifiable 'likes' and 'shares' to more meaningful and humane forms of interaction, in person.
social media commenter: "That shit is just uprage-y clickbait. You can't sue someone on tindr for 'genital discrimination', why would you even click on that? Are you that stupid? This makes me angry on enough levels that I'm going to stay up all night, trawl every social media post you've ever made, dissect everything and write 2000 words about your obvious transphobia and racism and send it to your boss after I publish it and get enough comments from my peer group to get you fired. That's what you get for being so reactive, fuckhead. I hope you die of plague.
by DarnedIfYaDue May 10, 2017
When an individual regards themselves and their job skills as completely redundant and replaceable, are unwilling to reduce their dependence on the abstract systems for sustainance their thought and deed become motivated by a powerful humiliphobia.
"There's no point in arguing with them, they're humiliphobic."
The fundamental volition of so-called cancel culture is a gain of position through solidarity with the aims of globalist ideology, and conversely a humiliphobia of transgressing it.
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it." - George Orwell, 1984
"There's no point in arguing with them, they're humiliphobic."
The fundamental volition of so-called cancel culture is a gain of position through solidarity with the aims of globalist ideology, and conversely a humiliphobia of transgressing it.
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it." - George Orwell, 1984
by DarnedIfYaDue June 17, 2023