An online side hustle that consists of expressing political opinions, usually right-wing, and then asking for financial support in order to continute to express those opinions. In this context, grift implies that either A) the opinions are just a performance (and not actually held by the speaker, so the grift is just an act to make money), or B) the need for financial support is significantly overstated, typically by stoking fears of being censored. Thus, a genuinely opinionated online presence with a small amount of support is not considered a grift.
She used to be an Instragram influencer, but I think she wasn't making money on that. Now she just makes flat earth YouTube videos to grift.
by anonymous November 18, 2020
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by Magaz June 29, 2009
Get the griftmug. Softening your real views, on social media, in order to pander to a broader audience for money making purposes.
Jimmy D does “soft-grifting” on his podcast. He peddles a few of his milder progressive views, but he mostly takes hard right political stances because that is where the audience and the money is.
by Adam8909x June 18, 2022
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by I'm sosorry Mr. Band February 24, 2017
Get the Grifting Grandmug. The beautiful pureness of extracting as much money as possible from otherwise delusional cult-like followers on the basis of completely false premise and intentional deception.
Of course a charismatic and criminal NY Real Estate turned Reality Show host could create a massively powerful, revenue generating political corruption machine. Welcome to the evolution of groupthink, mind-fuck, ‘I want to believe’ divisive human behavior manipulation: The Grift is Real.
by YAWA September 9, 2023
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by C1PH3R8472 November 15, 2019
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