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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
mugGet the Narrative Inertiamug.
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
mugGet the Victim vs Victimizer narrativemug.

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
mugGet the Narrative Surfingmug.

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
mugGet the Narrmug.

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
mugGet the fuck up my narrativemug.

Control the narrative

They filed a police report first in order to control the narrative
by Ameilus December 22, 2022
mugGet the Control the narrativemug.

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
mugGet the Narrative enforcermug.

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