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.
Standard Operating Practice of the Internet.
To “blow out of proportion”.
Or
To “make a mountain out of a molehill”
Sensationalization
Tuesday
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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Rage bait?
Hyperbole.
Monetization.
Streisand Effect.
“Distraction”
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”?
Internet drama
The internet
serious answer: overreaction is another term people haven’t mentioned yet
You night be thinking of the Streisand effect, which is a little different, but very similar
For profit media. Opportunistic.
