Someone who says or does things so that others will like them. Will contradict their own beliefs or values just to be liked by someone who doesn’t deserve the time of day.
1. An attempt to appease to a group of people for financial gain while still simultaneously portraying that group of people in a negative, or unfavourable light. Usually playing on racist stereotypical tropes, or keeping up with racist/bigotted media trends aimed at creating or sustaining a negative or unfavourable image of the targeted group of people.
2. Attacking a group of people's image under the guise of progressiveness.
Example of backhand pandering is placing black women in lead roles for movies to pander to them for money, yet this lead black female character adheres to negative racist stereotypes that portray black women in an unfavourable light.
Faking or over-emphasising a trait about yourself (typically online) in a sexually suggestive context to pander to a demographic of people who fetishize that trait, leading to the demographic being further convinced of the trait having inherent sexual qualities
I hate how a handful of creators started doing fetish-gimmick pandering about being goth and now people assume dressing alternative is "goonerbait"