Tragedy Beacon

An individual who can't wait to talk about personal or widespread tragedy. In the old days, this was the town gossip who called everyone ASAP to spread the bad news. In the digital era, it can include using social media (status updates, tweets, etc.) to be the first to comment on bad news. Often done under the auspices of being concerned or "united", but invariably comes off as just being morbid, showboating douchebag/douchbaguette.

Joe: Did you see her tweets about the funeral this morning?

Dave: Yeah. What a tragedy beacon.

by GrumpusIncognito May 22, 2009

tragedy hipster

An unholy birthing from the chaos following any tragedy, the tragedy hipster will ridicule the mainstream media for not covering 'more vital' tragedies that only their own magical social media feed displays.

"Everybody's praying for Paris, but no network will cover the stuff in Beirut."
"Dude. Check a news site instead of Facebook once in a while. You are such a tragedy hipster!"

by LionPatriot January 26, 2016

white tragedy

a tragedy that has an element of comedy.

The drama, although purported to be a tragedy, is actually comical in nature. It is a white tragedy, indeed.

by uttam maharjan August 21, 2011

tragedy of the commons

The idea that since no one owns a common are (e.g., a public park) that no one takes care of it

The rundown condition of the park was another example of the tragedy of the commons

by Robbo August 27, 2003

tragedy of the commons

The fact that unregulated resources that are held in common are exploited to the point where they lose their usefulness.

Commonly used to argue that having any resources (parks, etc.) held in common will always lead to their destruction. Especially by libertarians and people who want corporate welfare.

We could make this publically-owned pristine forest into a public park Governor, but that would only lead to the tragedy of the commons. Let's sell it to the logging intrests instead! Since they'll have ownership over the land, they'll have good reason to take care of it.

by Colonoscopy October 30, 2003

tragedy mining

When news outlets throw out every nugget of information they have, no matter how insignificant, during a national tragedy to garner traffic.

The news did a three page story on that spree killer’s green shirt. Straight up tragedy mining.

by R.Crab October 3, 2017

Tradgedy

Really just tragedy but more dramatic

It’s a tradgedy that Ben cannot spell.

by Doxdox August 27, 2020