A form of baiting focused purely on triggering an emotional reaction in someone—anger, frustration, sadness, outrage—for the satisfaction of seeing them react. Reactbait doesn't necessarily seek to win arguments, change minds, or achieve practical outcomes; it seeks the visceral pleasure of watching someone lose control. The reactbaiter pokes, prods, and provokes until the target responds emotionally, then feeds on that response. It's the digital equivalent of poking a caged animal with a stick—the reaction is the point, the entertainment, the reward. Reactbait is especially common in anonymous online spaces where empathy is low and cruelty is fun.
Example: "He posted inflammatory comments not because he believed them but because he wanted to see people get angry. And they did—outraged replies, frustrated arguments, emotional venting. Reactbait had worked: he'd gotten the reactions he wanted, and he moved on, satisfied, to the next target. The anger he'd provoked wasn't his problem; it was his entertainment."
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Power Reactant Storage Assemblies are sets of oxygen and hydrogen tanks that provide reactants for electrical power generation and basic life support to the shuttle crew.
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A view-grabbing tactic and manipulative move that many popular news networks (such as CNN) thrive off nowadays due to the dying off television and the uprising of everything going digital. It is the use of one-sided story-telling from movements like #blm and feminism that display them crying over racism in which happens to be untrue, and there was no racism whatsoever, but social justice warriors use it like any other word so casually. But they won't tell you that, and because many people are too lazy to research nowadays, many people are lead to believe these false claims be true. Which brew up anger and cause race wars.
Guy 1: "I hate how all these news channels keep racebaiting. It's so fucked up."
Guy 2 (in response): "I know right? This honestly needs to stop."
Guy 2 (in response): "I know right? This honestly needs to stop."
by CJ203 April 18, 2018
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2nd person: "What's that?"
1st person: "I don't know, some dumbass made the word up"
cough*: okay this definition was stupid......
2nd person: "What's that?"
1st person: "I don't know, some dumbass made the word up"
cough*: okay this definition was stupid......
by cough* December 2, 2004
Get the realtraitiousphensaitious mug.When a non-white person uses their own race to call out other races(99.99999% of the time white people), of supposed racism or "appropriation", in order to get validation and further a narcissistic agenda.
A narcissist Native American man wakes up one day and decides that he wants to racebait. In a crowded place, a Native American man comes up to a bunch of random ass white people that they've never met and starts bullying them about how they "stole their land" and that they should go back to Europe. The braindead democratic crowd surrounds them and starts shouting at them and bullying at them along with the Native American man.
First of all, Native Americans came from Asia. Second, if you truly hate white people then you might as well hate every other race because that is who is living on "your land" right now.
Third, why is everybody so obsessed with land? In what way does land correlate to your self-worth or innocence? If you feel so connected to a piece of fucking dirt then you might as well take back Africa because that is where you all came from.
STOP BEING A NARCISSISTIC CUNT. YOU KNOW YOU DON'T GIVE A FUCK. WORTHLESS SHITCUNT.
First of all, Native Americans came from Asia. Second, if you truly hate white people then you might as well hate every other race because that is who is living on "your land" right now.
Third, why is everybody so obsessed with land? In what way does land correlate to your self-worth or innocence? If you feel so connected to a piece of fucking dirt then you might as well take back Africa because that is where you all came from.
STOP BEING A NARCISSISTIC CUNT. YOU KNOW YOU DON'T GIVE A FUCK. WORTHLESS SHITCUNT.
by Hamburger harold December 12, 2021
Get the Racebait mug.Any video, usually music, which is often requested for reactions on reaction channels. "Reactabait" is a video which usually involves something which takes the listener or viewer by surprise, eliciting a 'reaction' which fans want to see."
Bruce: Oi Cuz, did you see that Jimmy just blew up on youtube?
Angus: Nah man, he's just got a reaction channel. He figured out that doing "reactions" to reactabait will get him short term subscriber growth. He's just being a knob and is taking advantage of artists with cult followings. He'll give up soon when he realises they're not there for him.
Angus: Nah man, he's just got a reaction channel. He figured out that doing "reactions" to reactabait will get him short term subscriber growth. He's just being a knob and is taking advantage of artists with cult followings. He'll give up soon when he realises they're not there for him.
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