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

by ProfessorGoonBag April 28, 2016

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

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

Person 1: "What's something you've done purely out of the goodness of your heart, but never told anyone?"
Person 2: "I once pity fapped to the weird girl in high school who had no friends."
Person 1: "Dude, what the fuck?"
Person 2: "I once pity fapped to the weird girl in high school who had no friends."
Person 1: "Dude, what the fuck?"
by KuwagaRaiger January 24, 2022

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

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
