When a person or persons, especially one in a position of authority, has been controlled or unduly influenced, by another person, group, organisation or entity.
When a private message is made public in order for one of the parties of the message to be chastised or humiliated by a group of people.
Posting instant message conversations in which one of the persons has ;owned' the other party making them seem ignorant so others can mock them as well.
John Doe was quite upset when the entire forum teased him because Jane Doe puppeted their cyber chat.
A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.
For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flyingeverywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
A plate of brown consists of foods that have little to no nutritional value, and are typically deep fried. A true plate of brown will also be accompanied by a dark soda.