Narrative Inertia

When the current media narrative has so much momentum that all news sources are covering the same topic and ignoring other unrelated news.

Science Dude: We finally figured out cold fusion! This is going to shock the world!
Friend Dude: Good luck, the pandemic has such much narrative inertia you'll be lucky to get a mention at the bottom of the page.

by JethroXP May 21, 2020

Narrative

It's hard to get in there... You know? It takes some time.... Unless you're me. I'm SUPER good at that's shit! It's almost too easy.

Hym "You know how I know that that character is about me? The anime one? Not only did he express my exact position but they modeled him after the 'Bleach' character 'Kenpachi Zaraki'. And it's a reference to the comment I made about people giving me a blank expressionless stare as though 'they can see the effigy of my might looming behind me like Kenpachi Zaraki'. Isn't that wild!? I'm in that narrative y'all. Great job me!"

Iam "Wait... Does that make me the depressed kid?"

Hym "HA! Probably!"

by Hym Iam May 11, 2022

Narrative buster

Fact or meme that is so radical it sets a new paradigm, or permanently alters perspective.

Donald worshiper is a real narrative buster.

by Dr.Crow February 17, 2023

Narrative enforcer

What a journalist is supposed to be called today

Well since modern journalists are opinionated and lazy and don't want to do real investigating journalism, we'll lets just call them narrative enforcer cuz they work for a private business and

" enforce" a narrative. The term first appeared on fox news.

by Uncle Dimma June 14, 2023

Narrative Surfing

A populist-esque phenomenon. When someone adopts position after position because the position’s in-group popularity or astroturfed popularity.

This is most often done to increase (social) media engagement rather than being a sincerely held belief or only becomes a sincerely held belief as a result of its popularity and not its rationale or substance.

Surfing from narrative wave to narrative wave of popular opinion among one’s in group.

why are conservatives now supporting abortion and gay rights?

They’re narrative surfing dude.

by Huwite August 14, 2023

Narrative Fapping

When a person can only masturbate to a piece of media if it has a clear narrative/story line.

Man I can't jack off to this piece of hentai. Wait a minute it has a story line!!! time to start narrative fapping.

by ZepherFish March 8, 2024

Narrative Deadweight

A character, part or sub-plot in a book, or movie that adds nothing to the overall story.

Ron: "The part about the protagonist's goldfish was total narrative deadweight, but it did give us a great fish funeral scene."

by DictionaryDecimator July 6, 2024