What do you consider "rage bait"? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I keep seeing people call all sorts of things that absolutely should not be “rage” inducing rage bait and I’m confused how this term has evolved, what does it mean when something like a dumb question or a slightly censored meme is now “rage bait”? To me rage bait means something explicitly made to make you made, playing the devils advocate or purposefully edgy and polarizing content but that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore. To me it it feels like the way woke just means anything I don’t like, is the other side of the coin rage bait is also anything I don’t like I just don’t happen to be a conservative? Sorry if this post is rage bait, I’m genuinely asking and I have a touch of the ‘tism.

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[-] raspirate@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Any content that was produced with the primary intent of making people angry.

Problem is that's really hard to identify unless you know the original author's intent. Just because it makes someone angry doesn't necessarily mean it's rage bait, but if it was explicitly made with that goal in mind, that's what I would describe as rage bait.

[-] NightFantom@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Or posting someone else's serious-intended content to a wrong community for rage-induced engagement

[-] tiz@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Ikr. It could be called rage-mine for things that some people took offensively.

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