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.
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Get the Pity titties mug.This phenomenon happens when a pretty girl takes a picture with an ugly girl. Often times the picture is taken as a nice gesture. The next day the pretty girl goes online and finds the picture as the ugly girls profile picture. This effect will make new users who look at the ugly girls profile to think that she is the pretty one. To further this point, the ugly girl may choose to use this picture on a dating site. The passerby will look at the picture and assume that the ugly girl is the pretty girl. Therefore, it is a way of tricking people into thinking that you are pretty without lying.
Example 1:
Tonya: Hey i got a message from a guy on my dating site.
Cait: Wow your so lucky.
Tonya: He wants to see me in the dress i was wearing in the picture
Cait: oh la la
Tonya: Crap, i used the Pity Picture Gone Wrong
Example 2:
Beverly: Hey im checking out everyone's prom pictures online
Hannah: tell me if you find any of me
Beverly: I found one, your with Fat Faced Fiona. AND She is using it as her profile pictures!!
Hannah: no way, now everyone is going to think she is the pretty one in the picture. I hate when a pity picture goes wrong
Tonya: Hey i got a message from a guy on my dating site.
Cait: Wow your so lucky.
Tonya: He wants to see me in the dress i was wearing in the picture
Cait: oh la la
Tonya: Crap, i used the Pity Picture Gone Wrong
Example 2:
Beverly: Hey im checking out everyone's prom pictures online
Hannah: tell me if you find any of me
Beverly: I found one, your with Fat Faced Fiona. AND She is using it as her profile pictures!!
Hannah: no way, now everyone is going to think she is the pretty one in the picture. I hate when a pity picture goes wrong
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Get the Pity Private mug.The act of liking somebody's pity like, out of pity for how unoriginal and windy their original pity like was. A sign that pity liking has become overused and should probably be classed as gale force bant.
Facebook user one: 'uninteresting status'
Facebook user two: (after pity liking said status): 'guffaw, i'm so witty and original'
Facebook user three: (after pity like liking the pity like) 'that'll quench that gale force bant'
^a classic Pity Like Like manouvre.
Facebook user two: (after pity liking said status): 'guffaw, i'm so witty and original'
Facebook user three: (after pity like liking the pity like) 'that'll quench that gale force bant'
^a classic Pity Like Like manouvre.
by Slothing December 10, 2012
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Get the Pity Hoe mug.When you're a 5'3 midget or a fan of AlphaDestiny/Jason Blaha and Naturally enhanced you will receive many pity hugs.
I was at a bar once and these dude was wasted off 2.5 beers and he was telling all these guys and chicks that he got jacked from listening to Jason Blaha and AlphaDestiny. The guys laughed at him and told him to go away and one girl that he kept trying to hit on tried to get him to leave by giving a pity hug.
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