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Bubble Wrap Bandits

A playful term for individuals who exhibit traits typically associated with being overprotected during childhood, often resulting in a heightened sensitivity to humor, criticism, or challenging discussions.

This term suggests a person who navigates the world as if wrapped in bubble wrap, avoiding discomfort or confrontation to maintain a sense of safety.

Commonly used in social discourse to describe someone who may struggle to cope with satire, irony, or constructive feedback, often responding with defensiveness, outrage, or feeling "triggered" by remarks that challenge their worldview.

The term can also highlight the cultural conversation around parenting styles and the impact of 'safe spaces' in modern society, questioning the balance between protecting children and preparing them for real-world interactions.

The Bubble Wrap Bandits, with their finely honed sensitivity to every jab of humor and critique, are slowly but surely taking over the world, wrapping society in a protective layer of outrage and defensiveness. This new wave of hypersensitivity stifles satire, demands safe spaces at every turn, and reshapes conversations to avoid anything remotely uncomfortable or challenging, as even the slightest criticism or ironic remark is met with defensive outrage—lest the very fabric of their worldview burst at the smallest poke.

Let’s face it: the Bubble Wrap Bandits are slowly taking over, and soon enough, no one will be able to take a joke without triggering an outcry. The world’s becoming so wrapped in defensiveness that humor’s getting suffocated under layers of outrage and hypersensitivity.

by TonyBamanaboniNZ November 8, 2024


Bubble-wrap

A cute nickname what my girlfriend and I call one another pretty much constantly.

"I love you, bubble-wrap".

"I love you too, bubble-wrap".

by Joe_Schmuck June 20, 2022


Bubble Wrap Babies

A term referring to PvPers in games that wrap themselves in armor that makes them invulnerable or near invulnerable and use AOE weapons to disguise their lack of aim. Often, they will use hacks and glitches to help cover up for their lack of skill. These players often think of themselves as "elite" PvPers.

Man, SeaDaddyGaming and his crew are a bunch of Bubble Wrap Babies. Take all their crutches away and they couldn't PvP themselves out of a wet paper bag.

by b1g0lt3ddyb34r May 5, 2020


Verbal Bubble Wrap

A way of protecting those around us; If done well it is thoughtful, without ego and does not ruin the present moment ;

can be done in a way to control the lives of those around us causing great disharmony in their lives.
When used by the government it is almost always the latter.

Her Verbal Bubble Wrap gives me no room to breathe or make my own decisions.

by CircusMagurkis May 2, 2020


bubble-wrapped

A person who lives so comfortably in an echo chamber that they become fragile when confronted with any opinions outside of it.

Coddled to the point of being ready to explode.

Your friend Griper can't handle being spoken to like an adult because she's bubble-wrapped. Her friends treat her with kid gloves, because if they don't she'll pop off at them.

by Shawn.Fleek!! February 4, 2022


bubble-wrapped

A person who lives so comfortably in an echo chamber that they become fragile when confronted with any opinions outside of it.

Coddled to the point of being ready to explode.

Your friend Griper can't handle being spoken to like an adult because she's bubble-wrapped. Her friends treat her with kid gloves, because if they don't she'll pop off at them.

by Shawn.Fleek!! February 4, 2022