I saw a TikTok of someone being held in airport jail and happy that they at least gave them some Burger King. Someone left a comment, “aren’t we supposed to be boycotting BK though?” I actively felt like I was going insane reading that
I usually picture Britta from community whenever I read comments like that.
Oh, Britta’s in this?
This is called context collapse:
Context collapse or “the flattening of multiple audiences into a single context”[1] is a term arising out of the study of human interaction on the internet, especially within social media.[2]Context collapse “generally occurs when a surfeit of different audiences occupy the same space, and a piece of information intended for one audience finds its way to another” with that new audience’s reaction being uncharitable and highly negative for failing to understand the original context.[3]
Seems interrelated with butwhataboutism and appeal to hypocrisy. Basically redirecting the conversation to something unrelated to make the original speaker look bad.
But what about the other fallacies? You’re just going to ignore those, huh?? Typical Apollists.
Nice.
