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.
Rage bait. Most of my comments and contributions on social media, including Lemmy.
Some terrible cooking channels on YouTube. There is no way anyone would cook like that. And they recorded it, edited and uploaded to the net.
Pure rage baitAny 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.
Or posting someone else’s serious-intended content to a wrong community for rage-induced engagement
- It induces rage in many people
- That was clearly intentional
See also: trolling, clickbait
Rage in that context doesn’t mean the full on definition, irritating or annoying are enough to qualify as the “rage” part of the term. It’s engagement bait with that as the method. The other part as someone else pointed out is the intent.
The post you allude to qualified but you were reposting it without the intent, so while the meme itself is ragebait as the original creator had the intent it only applies to you by association not directly. Most readers won’t make the distinction without knowing that’s the case.
Like I saw a post with someone asking a stupid question about a fountain. I was like how is this rage inducing like, in any way to someone who called it rage bait then they said it was due to the comments, but like… that doesn’t make the post rage bait does it? How would you know the intent based off the original question/image/whatever? I understand comments are easy but I don’t get the completely generic stuff being called rage bait without context I guess?
90% of these questions & 95% of the answers including this one
Ok so you’re part of the problem I guess? I’m asking a genuine question that’s sparked conversation, like let people ask real questions?
My comment history is perfectly normal and obviously genuine there’s nothing about me or what I post that seems “rage bait”
It’s kinda funny that the person you’re trying to convince that you’re genuine has their account labeled as a bot.
I don’t think rage-bait is a thing. i think the people accusing others of posting "ragebait’ are they, themselves the ones who are gaslamping us.
I think it’s being judged not by intent, but by the person’s own emotional response and by the amount of emotional comments. Every emotion on the internet seems so fake today, so we flag everything
You’re flagged as “Russian troll” so I call bullshit.
And why have you flagged me
I’m not sure, the tag system is basic and without context.
Ok whatever. Jfyi, Russian state trolls never admit they are from Russia. So I’d recommend changing this label to something like “russian douchebag”
All of Instagram.
