outrage porn
nounEtymology
Coined by New York Times writer Tim Kreider to emphasize the way such writing panders to people's self-indulgent desire to feel outraged.
Definitions
Media that is written in order to provoke feelings of outrage and righteous indignation.
- Holonym: outrage culture
- Near-synonym: ragebait
- You can't write a Salon outrage porn piece without the word "problematic" being in the first couple of paragraphs somewhere.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for outrage porn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA