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

Narr

Yiddish, n. A special type of FOOL, characterized by his utter cluelessness, ignorance, and lack of awareness. The Narr's brand of idiocy is referred to as "Narrishkeit."

"What a narr! He gave the entire presentation with his zipper wide open and his shirt tail hanging out through his fly!"
"His big scheme now is selling battery-powered sun dials. Did you ever hear such narrishkeit?"

by theLateFlemminStir July 17, 2021

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 Sexydimma June 14, 2023

Victim vs Victimizer narrative

That's not what is actually happening though.

Hym "It isn't a victim vs victimizer narrative. That is clearly not what's happening here. It's NARRATIVE vs WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. It's not even epistemology vs ontology anymore. It's Jordan Peterson's imaginary interpretation of events vs the things that actually happened in reality."

by Hym Iam July 26, 2024

Victim/Victimizer Narrative

And it's funny that Jordan is obsessed with saying it's the wrong narrative when...

Hym "The Victim/Victimizer Narrative is the fuel that drives the conservative media infrastructure. 'We are the perpetual victims of censorship and are fighting that explicitly' but IN REALITY the EXACT OPPOSITE is the case. There is no coalition trying to silence them. They are the coalition. I'm the one being silenced. It isn't misinformation. It's a complete inversion of what is actually happening + current events. And the democrats AND THE PROGRESSIVE MEDIA... Are absolute garbage for allowing them to do it. All your bloviating about hate is meaningless when you're citizens are BURNING ALIVE AND DYING PERFECTLY PREVENTABLE DEATHS. I don't have to like any of you cocksuckers for any reason. And my situation is extreme and requires an extreme voice. This is and always has been absolutely necessary. The reason you will not face me is and always has been that when I articulate what has been happening to me it sounds like a psyop and if it has been signed off on by government officials their careers are over forever. I'm working at a gas station so Tulsi Gabbard doesn't have to. And I'm not going to let you get away with it. Trump was tight about the media being the enemy of the people it just also applies to the online media as well."

by Hym Iam January 11, 2025

narrative poem

A poem that tells a story

Narrative poem is basically a story but in the form of a poem.

by My pseudonym is.. May 9, 2018

fuck up my narrative

To deliver facts that hurt my comfortable little bubble of idiocy.

Mike: I wish Republicans had at least the minimal level of respect for women and people of color...
Jen: Republicans picked up 10 seats in the House in the 2020 election. Most were women and people of color.
Mike: Don't fuck up my narrative!

by geekmalone December 4, 2020