People being optimistic when there's really nothing to be optimistic about. A sense that someone's positivity has no merit and is practically wasted because almost if not everything is purely negative at the time. This kind of thinking can be toxic because being happy all the time, even and especially during hardship, doesn't necessarily solve anything.
I'm getting tired of the amount of Empty Optimism that everyone around me is exerting. There's really nothing to be happy about right now.
by TheFiend138 April 26, 2020
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A term used when you want to virtue signal that somebody's else's virtue signalling isn't as good as your virtue signalling for unspecific reasons.
A way for low level influencers to attempt to move up the food chain by trying to discredit influencers more popular than themselves.
A way for low level influencers to attempt to move up the food chain by trying to discredit influencers more popular than themselves.
Instagram Wannabe Influencer: Posting a black square on #BlackOutTuesday is empty signalling. Let me now make 3 posts about why drawing attention to this issue I pretend to care about is bad because you did it in a way different from me, allowing me to be the number one virtue signaller and attention whore when really we should focusing on ways to stop police brutality against minorities.
by Signaller June 2, 2020
Get the Empty Signalling mug.An accurate term describing how uneducated loud-mouths sound when they speak about topics they know nothing about. People often labeled as such will cry racism, rather than believe they could possibly be both inarticulate and incorrect. Ant. - woke, smart
That Congresswoman is such an empty barrel; always talking like her clueless ass actually knows something.
by Yankees 2nd Baseman October 22, 2017
Get the empty barrel mug.Similar to the term 'empty suit' used in business circles, it refers to anyone who has a position of seeming importance and looks the part, but is actually ineffectual, incomptent, or stupid. Looks good on the outside but no content or substance.
by Hundo-1 October 22, 2017
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by Oppressed cracker October 25, 2017
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