To deflect, knowingly and unknowingly, from the problems one might have with a commercial product/a corporation's unethical behavior by turning it into an overly emotional issue centered around how a high-level executive directly responsible for said problems must have felt.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
Originally used on Blizzard Entertainment's Overwatch 2 forums to describe the perspective that the game's director, who misled an entire community by lying about a game feature that was heavily advertised when they knew prior to the game's release it was cancelled, must have felt too ashamed to act otherwise.
A: I feel so bad for the game director, they must have felt too bad to tell us the truth...
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
B: That's pity shilling- feeling too bad to do the right thing means nothing when not doing it means you are misleading people.
by monogrolo May 20, 2023
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Get the Pity Stealer mug.A pity ploy (n.) is a term used when someone fishes for affection, compliments, or a free pass to excuse how they act by self degrading themselves to make you feel bad for them. Pity= is what the person wants from you and ploy= is the fact that they came up with a motive and plan to get pity from others. Ergo, the term pity ploy is formed. Don't be this person it's narcissistic.
Friend 1: *sends receipts of an altercation*
Friend 1: "Do you see how this bitch literally pulls an 'oh woe is me' card every time I have a valid point"
Friend 2: "omfg they do that to me too- yeah it's clear that they just wanted to come up with a pity ploy to win the argument"
Friend 1: "I know dude it's annoying as shit"
Friend 1: "Do you see how this bitch literally pulls an 'oh woe is me' card every time I have a valid point"
Friend 2: "omfg they do that to me too- yeah it's clear that they just wanted to come up with a pity ploy to win the argument"
Friend 1: "I know dude it's annoying as shit"
by Iwillchokeyou September 14, 2022
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I woke up to the smell of breakfast only to find out that you didn’t even leave me a piece of pity bacon to go with the stale pancakes and cold eggs.
by Moonmullins2 January 15, 2022
Get the Pity bacon mug.Person 1: "What's something you've done purely out of the goodness of your heart, but never told anyone?"
Person 2: "I once pity fapped to the weird girl in high school who had no friends."
Person 1: "Dude, what the fuck?"
Person 2: "I once pity fapped to the weird girl in high school who had no friends."
Person 1: "Dude, what the fuck?"
by KuwagaRaiger January 24, 2022
Get the Pity Fap mug.An act of creating a post on social media to gain pity, may also be to gain likes or upvotes as well.
Greg created a pity post on reddit about not knowing how to gain karma. People feel bad for Greg not knowing how and gave him upvotes through pity.
by Clockworkn January 19, 2021
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