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Internet trolls sometimes engage in what is called 'sealioning'. They demand that you keep arguing with them for as long they want you to, even long after you realize that further discussion is pointless. If you announce that you want to stop, they accuse you of being closed-minded or opposed to
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Electronic Media: Content, Context, Culture
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called "the most apt description of
Twitter you'll ever see".
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How to Think: Your
Essential Guide to Clear, Critical Thought
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invitations to engage in debate", and has been likened to a
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In contemporary internet slang, eironeia is "sealioning"
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811:Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
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139:Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
122:Think Again: How to Reason and Argue
3484:Digital media use and mental health
1046:Rickman, Dina (29 September 2014).
1015:Auerbach, David (11 October 2014).
950:Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience
721:from the original on 31 August 2018
280:focusing on users of the Gamergate
1341:comic strip that inspired the term
1284:from the original on 21 March 2019
1159:Jhaver, Shagun; Ghoshal, Sucheta;
914:Kennedy, Tristan (26 April 2022).
184:and metaphorically described as a
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3489:Effects of violence in mass media
3193:Smartphones and pedestrian safety
1100:Maxwell, Kerry (6 October 2015).
790:from the original on 16 June 2019
560:"The Multiple Harms of Sea Lions"
439:Oxford Dictionary of Social Media
152:Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
3462:2021 Facebook company files leak
3188:Mobile phones and driving safety
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707:Lindsay, Jessica (5 July 2018).
347:Poland, Bailey (November 2016).
3434:2020 U.S. presidential election
3429:2016 U.S. presidential election
120:discussed the term in his book
2382:Correlation implies causation
116:American academic philosopher
27:Type of trolling or harassment
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886:Johnson, Amy (7 March 2019).
302:(from the 1924 comic strip).
274:In a 2016 study published in
269:Gamergate harassment campaign
3519:Social aspects of television
3419:Social media use in politics
3069:Missing white woman syndrome
1135:""Sea Lion" Has Been Verbed"
355:University of Nebraska Press
3030:Least objectionable program
166:In 2021, Canadian magazine
85:An essay in the collection
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195:likened sealioning to the
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980:Zucca, Diego (May 2022).
818:. July 2018. p. 56.
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3551:Violence and video games
3529:Social impact of YouTube
3409:Knowledge gap hypothesis
3332:Social-desirability bias
3230:Information–action ratio
2832:Motte-and-bailey fallacy
1932:Affirming the consequent
1731:Advertising and products
1102:"Definition of Sea lion"
186:denial-of-service attack
135:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
118:Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
56:denial-of-service attack
3504:Mass shooting contagion
2957:Evolutionary psychology
2852:Two wrongs make a right
2183:Denying the correlative
954:Oxford University Press
855:. Pinter & Martin.
816:Oxford University Press
443:Oxford University Press
3494:Fascination with death
3357:Political polarization
3285:Availability heuristic
3250:Television consumption
2837:Psychologist's fallacy
2774:Argument to moderation
2764:Argument from anecdote
2714:Chronological snobbery
2338:Quoting out of context
2305:Overwhelming exception
2188:Suppressed correlative
2088:Quoting out of context
1963:quantificational logic
1937:Denying the antecedent
946:Grace Chappell, Sophie
608:Merriam-Webster Online
437:; Munday, Rod (2016).
298:(1958 comic book) and
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3225:Information pollution
3215:Information explosion
3198:Texting while driving
3154:Low information voter
3052:Pink-slime journalism
2800:The Four Great Errors
2780:Argumentum ad populum
2769:Argument from silence
2473:Argumentum ad baculum
2251:Faulty generalization
1942:Argument from fallacy
1269:10.5210/fm.v23i2.8232
1077:. 19 September 2014.
774:Shepherd, J. Marshall
318:Argumentum ad nauseam
240:The Terrible Sea Lion
223:The Terrible Sea Lion
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193:Sophie Grace Chappell
3474:Criticism of Netflix
3280:Availability cascade
3220:Information overload
3129:Attention management
3124:Attention inequality
3020:Human-interest story
2962:Behavioral modernity
2947:Cognitive psychology
2818:Invincible ignorance
2624:Reductio ad Stalinum
2610:Reductio ad Hitlerum
2566:Wisdom of repugnance
2333:Moving the goalposts
2198:Illicit transference
2123:Begging the question
2044:Undistributed middle
1952:Mathematical fallacy
1927:Affirming a disjunct
1736:Animation and comics
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396:(20 February 2015).
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3317:Mean world syndrome
2551:Parade of horribles
2527:In-group favoritism
2353:Syntactic ambiguity
1996:Syllogistic fallacy
1919:propositional logic
1605:Padonkaffsky jargon
1017:"Twitter Is Broken"
214:Origins and history
89:, published by the
3205:Influence-for-hire
3183:Media multitasking
3178:Human multitasking
3096:Tabloid television
3047:Media manipulation
2637:Poisoning the well
2454:Proof by assertion
2429:Texas sharpshooter
2363:Questionable cause
2300:Slothful induction
2259:Anecdotal evidence
2119:Circular reasoning
2014:Exclusive premises
1976:Illicit conversion
1317:has a profile for
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210:is «sealioning»."
160:What is Sealioning
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3119:Attention economy
3101:Yellow journalism
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364:978-1-61234-766-0
285:/r/KotakuInAction
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