outrage porn en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by New York Times writer Tim Kreider to emphasize the way such writing panders to people's self-indulgent desire to feel outraged.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Media that is written in order to provoke feelings of outrage and righteous indignation.
Holonym: outrage culture
You can't write a Salon outrage porn piece without the word "problematic" being in the first couple of paragraphs somewhere.
2013 November 23, Karolina Dean is an Ugly Brown Spic, “Pop music's race problem: How white artists profit from mocking hip-hop”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):Anger is being exploited by TRP-driven purveyors of outrage porn, to strike at all possible newsworthy targets.
2015 December 26, ajit, “Rage of the self-righteous Republic”, in unityinstruggle (Usenet):However, all of the above examples reflect the growth of "outrage porn" in contemporary social media, or stories that feed popular anger and indignation, and which sometimes lead to powerful action.
2015, M Compan, Visualizing Violence in Francophone Cultures:Near-synonym: ragebait
Outrage porn is not new. Similar to those who shame and publicly air their grievances today, the New Testament Pharisees were also known to look down on others with contempt.
2016, Scott Sauls, Befriend: Create Belonging in an Age of Judgment, Isolation, and Fear, →ISBN, page 45: