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After a guy buys a hot girl a drink, he then buys her ugly friend a drink too out of pity.
"Hey bro, what are you doing? You already bought that hot chick over there a drink!"
"I know man, but I feel bad for her friend so I got her a pity drink, you know, out of pity."
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.
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.
The act of, "dumping" your saddening feelings to others, causing you to feel like it was worthless to say in the first place and move on to another topic a second later.
{Person 1} "Sometimes I wonder why I can't help people. People won't come to me for help when they feel terrible, everytime I try to be positive, I end up going into the negative instead-"
{Person 2} "Wow, he's going through a hard pity dump..."
{Person 3} "Don't worry. He'll probably be better after."
When its firstly classified as rape, yet the person begins to feel sorry/ bad for the rapist and allows them to continue until they've finished
Ben pinned down Anika to the floor and became raping her, yet as the action dragged out she began to feel sorry for Ben, as he was loser at her high-school, so she allowed him to continue until he was finished making it pity rape.
A pity pall is a friend you have where your friendship is solely based on the fact that you both have depression.
Yes, I made this up myself
I really like to hang out with Bob, but I feel like he's just a pity pall.
When someone flexes or brags, but in a way that degrades or is negative for them, typically so that others will give them sympathy or attention. The opposite of flex.
Yeah she kept talking about how she sucks at math. She just trying to pity massage on us.
When a girl does something for a guy (or visa versa) because she feels bad for him.
Example 1
Jessica: I saw you with Mark last night, why were you with that loser??
Rebecca: I was giving him a pity jerk
Example 2
Jon: Why did you like Samantha's new pic, you know she's a huge loser right?
Matt: It was a pity jerk man.