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English: Conceptual flowchart depicting the process of rage baiting, Outrage porn, Outrage industrial complex, etc
  • Sources:
  1. The Oxford Word of the Year 2025 is rage bait. Oxford University Press (1 December 2025). Archived from the original on 25 June 2026.
  2. Smith, Tobin. (29 October 2019) Foxocracy: Inside the Network's Playbook of Tribal Warfare, Diversion Books ISBN: 978-1-63576-661-5.
  3. Feldman, Lauren. (21 September 2024). "Irony and Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter in the United States by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young (review)". American Book Review 45 (2): 49-53. University of Nebraska Press. DOI:10.1353/abr.2024.a937790.
  4. Bader, Michael. Bader, Michael (3 December 2023). "Fox News' 7 Deadly Sins: How the network hooks viewers on envy and fear". Salon. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025.
  • Terms cited in the above sources:
  • Oxford:
"Rage bait is defined as online content deliberately designed to elicit anger or outrage by being frustrating, provocative, or offensive, typically posted in order to increase traffic to or engagement with a particular web page or social media content".
"Where last year’s choice, brain rot, captured the mental drain of endless scrolling, rage bait shines a light on the content purposefully engineered to spark outrage and drive clicks. And together, they form a powerful cycle where outrage sparks engagement, algorithms amplify it, and constant exposure leaves us mentally exhausted. These words don’t just define trends; they reveal how digital platforms are reshaping our thinking and behaviour."
frustrating, offensive, deliberately divisive
  • Smith:
(search text for "rage") rage, insults, fears, resentment, tribalized hyperpartisan brain, trauma, blame, hate, "fear and rage porn"
More generally: https://books.google.com/books?id=0nPDDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
"white tribal fear", "bitter hatred and feelings of disrespect", "blasphemous outrage", "visceral bitter resentment", "victimhood and blame of 'elites' and 'others'", "Addiction to tribal hate and fear content"
  • Feldman:
(liberal) satire vs (conservative) outrage
  • Bader:
paranoid narrative, envy, fear, helplessness, powerlessness, anxiety, bitterness, aggrieved, distress, helplessness


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