Prooflighting
A digitallighting technique that exploits the demand for proof. The perpetrator sets an impossible evidentiary standard, then uses the target’s failure to meet it as “proof” that the target is lying, irrational, or hiding something. Even when the target provides evidence, the goalposts are moved, and the new demand is framed as “just asking for proper proof.” Prooflighting turns the legitimate value of evidence into a weapon of endless, exhausting demands.
Example: “She provided screenshots, timestamps, and witness statements; he said none of it counted because it wasn’t a ‘video confession.’ Prooflighting: demanding an impossible standard to make her look dishonest.”
Prooflighting by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal March 25, 2026
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