The effect achieved when people unnecessarily reply-all to an email that only required a standard reply, unnecessarily filling everyone's inbox with unneeded crap.
There goes Jim again, constantly creating reply-all pollution. I wish he realized there are 100 other people on this email chain who don't care!
The reply-all pollution on this team is suffocating!
The reply-all pollution on this team is suffocating!
by Metaphoru September 25, 2020
Get the reply-all pollutionmug. A person entering a, usually controversial, discussion with the most surface-level, stereotype-based, and hyperbolic arguments possible. Their take then becomes the easy go-to meme response that spreads, resulting in a form of Flanderization for the discussion as a whole, cutting any nuance or complexity to the discourse and adding undeserved importance to it.
Some of the more prevalent examples of this are in discussions of Fermi's paradox, where the go to is, "Aliens don't talk to us because we're stupid," despite how much it's implying about the aliens in question. And arguments about America not using the metric system, with the reason often being, "Americans are too stupid and lazy to understand it," forcing a stereotype and ignoring any actual reasons the US hasn't switched over.
Since these arguments are often done for quick validation, they often have little to no research backing them either due to overconfidence of being right, or an unconscious fear of having to think complexly.
Some of the more prevalent examples of this are in discussions of Fermi's paradox, where the go to is, "Aliens don't talk to us because we're stupid," despite how much it's implying about the aliens in question. And arguments about America not using the metric system, with the reason often being, "Americans are too stupid and lazy to understand it," forcing a stereotype and ignoring any actual reasons the US hasn't switched over.
Since these arguments are often done for quick validation, they often have little to no research backing them either due to overconfidence of being right, or an unconscious fear of having to think complexly.
commenter 1: omfg why don't Americans just switch to metric already, why are they too dumb to do government.
commenter 2: You could leave and google how states' rights work, fucking discussion pollution.
commenter 2: You could leave and google how states' rights work, fucking discussion pollution.
by dirtwashere April 9, 2023
Get the Discussion Pollutionmug. when people create emailing list trying to sell stuff no one wants, wasting time and space on the world wide web.
I am sick of getting emails from people I don't know trying to sell me stuff i don't want. All these people are doing is contributing to world wide web pollution.
by Hplar Renraw April 16, 2018
Get the world wide web pollutionmug. When someone talks very rapidly about things you have little understanding, it's like the sound of an unwanted radio playing music that doesn't appeal to you.
by HookBeak66 September 15, 2022
Get the audio pollutionmug. Noun. A distracting and excessive cloud of feelings that surrounds a complainer and overcasts an event. May include complaints drenched in anger or grief, but not a physical solution. Used to push others away with its feckless toxicity.
--He could have done his homework, but instead just spent an hour complaining about it. The air was so thick with emotional pollution, I just had to get out of there.
--I think she had a problem with my attitude, but I couldn't care less. She just babbled emotional pollution of "blah blah blah." Some people live to perfect their outrage.
--I think she had a problem with my attitude, but I couldn't care less. She just babbled emotional pollution of "blah blah blah." Some people live to perfect their outrage.
by UGiveUp2 November 11, 2017
Get the emotional pollutionmug. Universal Pollution, literally, refers to a kind of pollution that is affecting the whole world. It can be anykind of pollution, often not referring to environmental pollution or any environmental issues. People will not compete for Universal Pollution and its supply is far greater than its demand (probably no demand), scarcity will not occur. People would like to get rid of Universal Pollution. People would prefer less of them. It has a negative price and it is with a negative value to the consumer. Therefore, Universal Pollution is a kind of bads (opposite of economic goods).
by sugar_cane October 23, 2018
Get the Universal Pollutionmug. Useless Content is made and spread in various formats to create drama, outrage anger and encourages toxicity just to get the views. Whether it's fake or based on facts/real-world events, content is formed in a way to spread bad faith thought processes. Content polluters rely on provoking a knee-jerk reaction from reasonable people to encourage more content pollution. Nonsense content is also content pollution
Dude, most of these Youtubers are garbage, man! That platform is filled with content pollution.
TikTok should be banned just to encourage content pollution around the world!
These fake videos on Instagram are content pollution
TikTok should be banned just to encourage content pollution around the world!
These fake videos on Instagram are content pollution
by Dude, the cake is a lie!!111 January 24, 2023
Get the Content Pollutionmug.