A portmanteau of screenshotting and lynching, screenlynching is the taking of a screenshot from a internet group with a small or private audience and reposting said screenshot without the appropriate background context in another internet group, for the purposes of getting the screenlynched person criticized or flamed.
Mary screenlynched Jack by posting a screenshot of his Facebook comment ("I like children"), originally made in a "Involved Dads" group, in a rabidly anti-pedophilia group.
by LeFire December 3, 2019
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