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hellsite en · NOUN

Etymology

From hell + site.

Meanings

1. (Internet, humorous) A social media platform (particularly Tumblr, but generally any social media site such as Reddit, Facebook, TikTok, or Twitter) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture.
   • Every other news cycle, when any particular quake related to someone saying something stupid or disagreeable or out of touch or oftentimes simply oversharey occurs, it triggers a recurrent tsunami of contemplation of why any of us in the industry are on the hellsite at all. 2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:
   • once we finally #VerifySteakUmm and blow the lid off this corrupted hellsite we'll do a @reddit AMA so all the fresh faces pouring in may know who we are and what we stand for 2018 January 16, Josh Hafner, “Steak-umm, the frozen cheesesteak brand, defeats Twitter in epic battle for verification”, in First Coast News:
   • For those of you not active on the hellsite known as Twitter, Naked managed to finish the job of alienating the wine-writing community with a deliberately provocative piece of marketing copy […] 2018 June, David Williams, “Naked guns for a soft target”, in The Wine Merchant, page 15:
   • "I had no idea that it would end up consuming so much of my time, so I just picked two things I enjoy," he says about his Twitter handle. "I might've chose something else that made more sense if I had known how popular this hellsite would become!" 2019, @recordsANDradio, quoted in Kelyn Soong, "People & Places," Washington City Paper, 10 May 2019, page 88

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