A scheming, disingenuous act of kindness and selflessness to show ones solidarity with a cause, such as volunteering for CAMHS, all to boost ones image and reputation, rather than to help the cause. It is commonly weaponised by politicians and used in debates to appease the majority.
Synonyms: I have no life, I'm a cuck, please give me attention, stop mansplaining
Antonyms: I'm smart, I'm sexy, I'm not a 28 year old living in his mother's basement, I've got a nice schlong
Examples of virtue signalling:
- Jeremy Corbyn introducing his pronouns during a speech on Pink News
- Simon Cowell allowing a mediocre comedian to progress to the finals of Britain's Got Talent because he was disabled
- 18 year old college students stating their obvious gender pronouns in their Instagram/Twitter bios
- Wokeness - wokeness is virtue signalling, and virtue signalling is wokeness
- Michelle Williams' irrelevant and unnecessary speech at the Golden Globe Awards
- Refuting the scientific reality of biological sex
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(Commonly mistaken as a Dutch Oven however does not involve completely covering the victim)
The act of farting under a blanket while next to another person and then wafting the blanket. This causes the expelled gas to be pushed up and out of the opening blowing it in to the face of the other person. Extremely potent if multiple are saved up under the blanket.
I gave my wife smoke signals and she passed out cause I saved so many before doing it.
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A term for the expression of being a tech nerd or crypto bros with the intent of communicating superiority or membership to an exclusive club.
Q: Jack doesn't even own a Bored Ape NFT, so why is he wearing a Bored Ape hoodie?
A: He's clearly virtual signalling, just like that time he changed his pronouns to curly brackets.
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To dismiss any expression of solidarity, anti-racism, objection to misogyny etc as "virtue-signalling".
Vermin-signalling is simultaneously an attempt to discredit the views - most likely in favour of a minority group - that are being expressed, while underlining the dominance of the "correct" group, and an efficient method of establishing that you hold utterly verminous views that will probably mean your family slowly stop talking to you on Facebook or even coming round for Thanksgiving.
"My uncle's all over Facebook again, shouting about how people who object to black people being killed in their own homes are 'virtue-signalling'. He always starts vermin-signalling when he's drunk, but that just keeps getting earlier in the day."
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Commonly mistaken for the βShakaβ sign the woke signal is commonly used by virtue signalling celebrities to show off how cool they are and to assign themselves to βthe messageβ.
The thumb and pinkie finger are extended to create a W which means woke in signal language..
Anything Brie Larson does
βThat guy (insert any name I.e Matt) is so woke (person mentioned throws up the woke signal and unicorns and rainbows appear)β
Sorry this is not the Shaka sign get woke!
When a straight man gives eye contact for too long with a gay man so quickly grabs his girlfriend's hand.
Cruised a hot bloke in Sainsbury's but he panicked and began hetero-signalling .
The signals that your body sends you to tell you to poop.
I was getting shit signals in the middle of the big game.