1. Repeatedly deactivating and reactivating your social media pages following a break-up.
2. Creating vague, pity-seeking social media posts which reference your unexpected new single life, but only in the most general way - and then deleting them.
2. Creating vague, pity-seeking social media posts which reference your unexpected new single life, but only in the most general way - and then deleting them.
"Chris and Bailey broke up. Did you see Bailey's Facebook statuses?"
"I'm looking for her page, but I can't find it. I think she deleted the whole thing!"
"Uh oh - pity peekaboo!"
"I'm looking for her page, but I can't find it. I think she deleted the whole thing!"
"Uh oh - pity peekaboo!"
by juliablank March 14, 2014
Get the pity peekaboomug. To deflect, knowingly and unknowingly, from the problems one might have with a commercial product/a corporation's unethical behavior by turning it into an overly emotional issue centered around how a high-level executive directly responsible for said problems must have felt.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
A: I feel so bad for the game director, they must have felt too bad to tell us the truth...
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
by monogrolo May 20, 2023
Get the Pity Shillingmug. The act of, "dumping" your saddening feelings to others, causing you to feel like it was worthless to say in the first place and move on to another topic a second later.
{Person 1} "Sometimes I wonder why I can't help people. People won't come to me for help when they feel terrible, everytime I try to be positive, I end up going into the negative instead-"
{Person 2} "Wow, he's going through a hard pity dump..."
{Person 3} "Don't worry. He'll probably be better after."
{Person 2} "Wow, he's going through a hard pity dump..."
{Person 3} "Don't worry. He'll probably be better after."
by CreativeLogic October 9, 2015
Get the Pity Dumpmug. The 1 or 2 pieces of bacon You leave behind as a courtesy for the lazy people that slept through breakfast.
I woke up to the smell of breakfast only to find out that you didn’t even leave me a piece of pity bacon to go with the stale pancakes and cold eggs.
by Moonmullins2 January 15, 2022
Get the Pity baconmug. When someone flexes or brags, but in a way that degrades or is negative for them, typically so that others will give them sympathy or attention. The opposite of flex.
by YouJustGottaLookAtIt September 26, 2018
Get the Pity massagemug. by ProfessorGoonBag April 28, 2016
Get the Pity Rubmug. Someone who actively acts to steal the sympathy that is meant for someone else, generally by witnessing someone behave sympathetically to another and intersecting their own ( often exaggerated ) story of hardship so the sympathizer and the original beneficiary have to give the poacher all the attention and condolence. A behavior closely related to the chronic"one-upper" personality
I was telling the boss about my kid having a cold and that pity-poacher bill started lying about being born with dypheria and gout, so much for getting to clock out early, bill already got to.
by Joshamaphone March 27, 2021
Get the Pity-poachermug.