outrage porn

noun

Etymology

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

  1. 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