What is it called when the internet makes something small and minor seem bigger and worser than it actually is?
from x4740N@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 12:56
https://lemmy.world/post/37291540

For example there is one guy in a country who is being a dick or a single small business in some country that’s being a dick

But the internet catches wind of it and it ends up gaining traction online and ends up going from something small and minor to something huge online and actually seeming worser and bigger than it is and potentially makes the country where it happened appear like that when it isn’t true.

I’m looking for a word or words to describe this.

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remon@ani.social on 13 Oct 12:59 next collapse

To “blow out of proportion”.

Or

To “make a mountain out of a molehill”

Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.works on 13 Oct 12:59 next collapse

Monetization.

hypna@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 13:17 next collapse

Rage bait?

quinkin@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 13:33 next collapse

Hyperbole.

NewPerspective@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 13:41 next collapse

Tuesday

DaMummy@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 13:41 next collapse

“Distraction”

youngGoku@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 13:42 next collapse

Doxing is when you expose someone’s (or a business’s) identity or name or location for the internet to brigade.

Most of the time the target has faced some controversy (often petty and small) and once the internet catches wind, a flurry of fury and hate is unleashed upon the target.

Is this what you mean?

edgemaster72@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 13:43 next collapse

The internet

serious answer: overreaction is another term people haven’t mentioned yet

sk1nnym1ke@piefed.social on 13 Oct 13:44 next collapse

Internet drama

BurgerBaron@piefed.social on 13 Oct 13:48 next collapse

For profit media. Opportunistic.

[deleted] on 13 Oct 14:25 next collapse
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Toes@ani.social on 13 Oct 14:40 next collapse

Sensationalization

RattlerSix@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 15:28 next collapse

You night be thinking of the Streisand effect, which is a little different, but very similar

splendoruranium@infosec.pub on 13 Oct 15:34 next collapse

In general: a mismatch between media reality and reality - that’s pre-internet terminology, mind you, but it applies.

Acamon@lemmy.world on 13 Oct 15:58 next collapse

I feel like “going viral” partly covers that? When you make an offensive tweet before boarding a plane, and get turn off flight mode to realise the world has judged you and you’ve lost your job?

If you specifically mean how the Internet can misrepresented a country because most people online have never been to Montenegro or Bhutan, then it’s maybe just “bias”?

Paragone@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 01:48 next collapse

Good Grief, people:

EMBIGGEN.

Though totally blow out of proportion would be more sane, “embiggen” nails it in a single word.

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MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world on 14 Oct 19:24 next collapse

Streisand Effect.

IWW4@lemmy.zip on 15 Oct 19:40 collapse

Standard Operating Practice of the Internet.