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Pity Shilling

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.
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.
by monogrolo May 20, 2023
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pitfall

an artist from canada, who is the greatest artist of all time. he began making music in 2019, is apart of a musical collective called “slowsilver03”, and continues to amaze his fans with his beautiful, enchanting music.
“parker, have you heard of pitfall?”

“omg yes he’s the best! i’ve been a fan of him forever! still underrated to this day”
by pit27 October 25, 2023
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Shift-pity

The expression of fake sorrow for another person having a horrible work schedule
“I’m working graveyard on weekends now.” “Oh, that’s rough. I don’t know how you do it.” “I don’t need your shift-pity.”
by PdmHillsboro April 17, 2020
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x.pityparty

The BEST tiktoker ever, THEY STAN LOONA AND MELANIE MARTINEZ
Person 1: Omg i love seeing X.pityparty’s tiktoks on my following page

Person 2: I’ve never seen X.pitypartys tiktoks, let me check X.pityparty out!
by Dishlikefish88 April 28, 2021
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Brett Pitman

The greatest footballer to ever exist. Hates gays, plays for Swindon town used to go to IIL.
Ur moms lover “My grandad is Brett Pitman
Ur dads lover “Well u just got Pitmaned”
by PPgamer May 3, 2021
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out of mock pity

younger person usually said to an older person ,please come first out of mock pity
by nadosh March 22, 2020
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