A show of force displayed in an argument, in a manner that the argument appears nearly
one-sided.
Someone who has been dunked on has been destroyed with words.
This oftentimes excessive act is performed with little consideration of the
pride of the recipient, who appears incapable of properly defending themself.
This can take the form of public mockery, particularly online, in which a large number of
people attempt to score devastating rhetorical points against an individual who has gone viral.
The performative bloodsport of dunking is particularly central to some online communities. For example, on Twitter dunking refers to a particularly
savage quote-tweet response. This can spawn a dunk thread in which a large number of
people attempt to dunk on the original tweet.
Ashley said something stupid online and
people came out of the woodwork to
dunk on her for weeks.
I haven't seen someone get dunked on so hard since Lebron let it
loose against those middle schoolers.
