What Does This Mean?
Content deliberately designed to provoke anger or outrage specifically because angry engagement — comments, quote-tweets, shares — spreads just as effectively as positive engagement, if not more so.
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CBC Kids News · original source ↗
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NEWS CENTER Maine · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"That headline is pure ragebait, don't even click it."
LORE & ORIGIN
The base term behind the now-common "ragebait spiral" escalation pattern, describing the content itself rather than the feedback loop it triggers.
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