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That guilty feeling you get when you see that you've left the cap off on your highlighter overnight
Combines "pyramid" as in pyramid sales, and guilting, to provide a collective descriptor for all those items of social media content that seek to get themselves viral by exploiting human decency and empathy.
Individually they are generally good and moral, but as a collective phenomenon, they are experienced as moral blackmail and only cause empathy fatigue and insidious alienation from the causes they seek to promote.
That pyramid-guilt post was trying to suggest I wasn't loyal to my friends unless I liked, shared and copy-paste posted it to everyone.
Pyramid guilting is usually bad and wrong and 'poor me' attention-seeking but, just sometimes, it really is done for a sufficiently good cause.
When you tell someone you’re going to commit suicide if they don’t do something you want them to; telling someone your going to commit suicide to make them feel bad
“Did you hear she suicide guilted her ex to hook up with her?”
A girl/woman who uses guilt to get her friends to succumb to her wishes. Said girl/woman uses this power extensively, especially with her male friends.
What a guilt queen!
What you feel when you watch a documentary about climate change and remember all the crap you just ordered online.
"Wow, this episode of Patriot Act is really disturbing. I had no idea fast fashion was creating so much waste. Hey, are you okay? You look like you're going to throw up."
"Yeah... just thinking about the 10 shirts I don't need that'll be arriving on my doorstep tomorrow and having some serious retail guilt. I'm an asshole."
The half second of fleeting guilt an alpha male feels as he out lifts a once equal bro before his instincts kick in and he adds another plate his bench press to cement his pack leader status.
Out lifting my best friend left me with a ton of BETA guilt, but it had to be done.
The feeling of guilt for using too much carbon,
e.g. too much air travel,
driving to the corner shop in the car, etc
'Man, I have to fly to Zurich for the second time this month'
'Whoa, you must have some major carbon guilt over that'
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