Definitions by Ivanna Culito

smollettry 

Faking self-harm — associated with race, religion, or gender — to generate outrage and sympathy. Crying wolf to generate unwarranted minority victim status.

The man's smollettry, consisting of secretly spray painting racist graffiti on his own garage, created an outpouring of sympathy for him, and outrage by those opposed to bigotry.

smollettry by Ivanna Culito February 21, 2019