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Negbombing

The act of delivering bad news to manipulate someone into feeling bad, or to negatively impact their mood to achieve schadenfreude i.e personal gratification.

Akin to bullying or “negging” but in an impersonal way.

Ex1) Wow the weather forecast looks bad where you’re at, sucks for you.

Ex2) It looks like the construction on your street is gonna last 6 more months. I’m glad I don’t have to deal with that.
Stacy is constantly negbombing me. Every day there’s something new for me to worry about.

Scott constantly negbombs the class about how terrible the test average is.
Negbombing by Eon ma I January 27, 2023
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