I asked something in c/nostupidquestions and got downvoted heavily, was I really out of line? I felt so unwelcomed that I decided to leave Lemmy.

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        23 hours ago

        Sea Lioning comic

        Probably not the very first use of the term, but it’s how I came to learn about it

        Original here

      • nocturne@slrpnk.net
        7·
        23 hours ago

        Use of the term originates from a 19 September 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki titled The Terrible Sea Lion,cwhere a character expresses a dislike of sea lions and a sea lion intrudes to repeatedly ask her to explain her statement and attempts (in an exaggeratedly civil manner) to interrogate her views, following the characters into the privacy of their own home. “Sea lion” was quickly verbed, and noting this, Malki posted on his own Wondermark site, “I’m happy that it’s resonated with so many people”.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sealioning