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Masklighting 

Masklighting: a genre of COVID journalism mixing activism with reporting that admits wearing a mask can feel like suffocating but says don’t worry about it.

The term comes from a combination of two terms: 1) gaslighting (denying someone else's reality) and 2) muckraking (a genre of activist journalism).
Example 1 of masklighting:

Person 1: Hey, I feel really dizzy wearing this mask inside, especially when needing to talk a lot at work.

Anti-vaxxer/masker friend: Dude yeah, I feel you, and guess what...all these health journalists online are just saying that discomfort is only a "feeling" and not to worry about it. It's called masklighting
Such shills.

Person 1: Wait.. I thought health journalists acknowledged that feelings are not made up but are actually rooted in the body. Not sure i believe you haha seems like you have misinformation

Anti-xaxxer/masker: Haha, here's my liberal buddy just trusting the Media again... Here look: *pulls out iPhone and shows excerpt from health article*

"If it feels like your mask is making it harder to breathe, you’re not alone. Face mask 'air hunger '— the feeling that you can’t get enough air is a common sensation, often exacerbated by anxiety and stress. And while it may be a scary and uncomfortable feeling, the experts say that’s all it is, a feeling."

Person 1: Damn, guess it's all in my head then.

Example 2 of masklighting:

Person 2: Hey im all good with wearing these masks to help out society, but they're really uncomfortable to wear, let me do some research online from a credible source and see if that's just me.

Health journalist: "Many people report that wearing a mask can feeling like suffocation, but doctors say it's all in the head"

Person 2: Ah right right. I will mentally fix this tomorrow.
Masklighting by wahahaha1000 December 5, 2021
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Masslighting 

The art of gaslighting applied to crowds of gullible nincompoops of varying degrees predisposed to the delusion.
"President Trump, in a forte of masslighting, told his rally that he would be gracious if he lost the election."
Masslighting by red phillips December 6, 2020

MuskLighting 

1.Saying or or trolling something evil in front of an audience, then trying to convince people you weren't doing it on purpose.
2. Confusing kindness and decency with being a jerk
Did you see the way Jill was calling those kids "woke" like it's a bad thing to be kind? yeah, that's some pretty greasy musklighting

Holy shit, I can't believe his supporters are trying to get us to believe a Nazi salute is an autistic stim- Musklighting on a mass casualty level!
MuskLighting by Akk AK aDak January 24, 2025

Mislighting 

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A subgenre of gaslighting where one person shifts the blame onto another by insisting that a series of events would have proceeded smoothly if the latter had executed things correctly. However, in reality, even if the second person had attempted to follow the correct order of events, it would have been futile due to the first person's avoidance.
A: "I was too afraid to ask you to stop making me the punchline of every joke, because if I did, I probably would've just been ignored or laughed at!"
B: "No we wouldn't. We would stop if you asked. It's your fault you didn't ask."

A: "B says that I wouldn't have overreacted if I had just asked them to stop making jokes about me in the beginning."
C: "Sounds like they've mastered the art of mislighting."
Mislighting by ahundredovens October 10, 2023
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murderhobo 

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DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
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