James: did you see that cow and bull, over there By the rocks
Boris: what, why would there be a cows in the sea, James?
James: not a cattle cow, a female sea lion and a male sea lion
Boris: why not just say sea lion or lioness
James: well, those are the official terms for a male or female sealion
Boris: what, why would there be a cows in the sea, James?
James: not a cattle cow, a female sea lion and a male sea lion
Boris: why not just say sea lion or lioness
James: well, those are the official terms for a male or female sealion
by —Monotone-Dragon— July 18, 2023
From Wikionary: "To intrude on a conversation with disingenuous questions in an attempt to engage in unwanted debate as a form of harassment."
From Macmillandictionary.com: "In an online conversation, repeatedly asking a person questions or making comments which suggest that you are interested in what they are talking about, but are actually intended to annoy them"
The reference is taken from "WONDERMARK: A Collabroation With The Dead" web comic #1062; "The Terrible Sea Lion"
From Macmillandictionary.com: "In an online conversation, repeatedly asking a person questions or making comments which suggest that you are interested in what they are talking about, but are actually intended to annoy them"
The reference is taken from "WONDERMARK: A Collabroation With The Dead" web comic #1062; "The Terrible Sea Lion"
"Becky is being a real Sealion, like, no one wants to debate her wack-ass and she won't take a hint."
by Gralkor June 27, 2019
Your such a flipping Sealion!
by SEALION SALTY June 28, 2017
A word used for calling people out online who repeatedly target others with exhausting questions.
Or
A shady, made-up word that can be traced back to one text from the most exclusive university Harvard, within a country that has the death penalty, in order to divide activist circles across the English speaking world with its double meaning.
‘Sealion’ so happens to be an excellent excuse and reason for humiliating someone online. Performative activists need to create new words and labels for people, where if you only replaced these words with good old curse words, you’d be witnessing clear online harassment.
Or
A shady, made-up word that can be traced back to one text from the most exclusive university Harvard, within a country that has the death penalty, in order to divide activist circles across the English speaking world with its double meaning.
‘Sealion’ so happens to be an excellent excuse and reason for humiliating someone online. Performative activists need to create new words and labels for people, where if you only replaced these words with good old curse words, you’d be witnessing clear online harassment.
Person 1: …” What proof do you have that I’m speaking to you in bad faith”?
Person 2: “’We’ don’t have to prove anything, I’m ending the discussion, this is ‘sealioning’ YOU ‘sealion’”!
Person 1: “Why are you making the point of calling me a ‘sealion’ when you can just block me…”?
Person 2: “’We’ don’t have to prove anything, I’m ending the discussion, this is ‘sealioning’ YOU ‘sealion’”!
Person 1: “Why are you making the point of calling me a ‘sealion’ when you can just block me…”?
by Egan Wilks March 17, 2022
A subtle form of trolling involving "bad-faith" questions. You disingenuously frame your conversation as a sincere request to be enlightened, placing the burden of educating you entirely on the other party. If your bait is successful, the other party may engage, painstakingly laying out their logic and evidence in the false hope of helping someone learn. In fact you are attempting to harass or waste the time of the other party, and have no intention of truly entertaining their point of view. Instead, you react to each piece of information by misinterpreting it or requesting further clarification, ad nauseum. The name "sea-lioning" comes from a Wondermark comic strip.
I spent five minutes asking polite questions, sealioning him into hours of writing until he got exasperated and told me to fuck off.
by alienacean November 16, 2016
Sealioning is a term used to identify trolls who request citations when citations weren't necessary. It is akin to the meme of a child asking "Why?" after everything you say -- not even because they want to know, but as a bad faith way of faking interest while actually just trying to exhaust another person.
For example, "Sealioning" itself has been Sealioned with bad faith "definitions" attempting to change the meaning of the word to benefit online trolls.
For example, "Sealioning" itself has been Sealioned with bad faith "definitions" attempting to change the meaning of the word to benefit online trolls.
Person 1: The sun rises in the east.
Person 2: Can you provide a link to your claims?
Person 1: Don't be sealioning me, you can look it up yourself!
Person 2: Can you provide a link to your claims?
Person 1: Don't be sealioning me, you can look it up yourself!
by the modhatter January 5, 2023
Akin to playing Devil's Advocate, but worse. Whereas, on occasion, someone playing Devil's Advocate can actually help someone sharpen arguments and make them better, Sealioning amounts to the meme of the little kid replying to every answer with, "Why?" The Sealion has NO interest in hearing any other side, OR of making substantial arguments of its own side. A Sealion will often make empirically ridiculous arguments in the hopes of getting blocked online, which they incorrectly define as "owning" the person who blocked them. In fact, on social media, if you check the Sealion's replies, they're often cut-and-paste replies, frequently 100% unrelated to the topic. The sole purpose is to suppress the free speech of actual people who might thwart the success of disinformation campaigns.
"Did that fan of Killer Kyle Rittenhouse actually repeat that old 'I bet you didn't even watch the trial' propaganda?"
"Of course. So I had to remind him that yes, in fact, I did watch the trial, and Killer Kyle never denied murdering those people. He admitted that the person who assaulted those peaceful protesters was him. He admitted that they used their Stand Your Ground rights to defend themselves against his threats. He admitted that he shot at them --"
"Why do you even bother? They're clearly just Sealioning you."
"Of course -- which is a form of bullying, and letting bullies get away with bullying leaves people with the impression that the bullies were actually right, and we can't let that happen.
"Of course. So I had to remind him that yes, in fact, I did watch the trial, and Killer Kyle never denied murdering those people. He admitted that the person who assaulted those peaceful protesters was him. He admitted that they used their Stand Your Ground rights to defend themselves against his threats. He admitted that he shot at them --"
"Why do you even bother? They're clearly just Sealioning you."
"Of course -- which is a form of bullying, and letting bullies get away with bullying leaves people with the impression that the bullies were actually right, and we can't let that happen.
by the modhatter April 15, 2023