Social DynamicsDiagnosis
Trauma Dumping
TRAW-muh DUM-pingnoun
What it means
Disclosing intimate pain to an audience that did not request it, cannot leave, and will be asked to react.
What it actually means
Your wound is now my content.
How it is used in a sentence
"The caption was a lot, it was full trauma dumping."
Filed under
Social Dynamics — The unwritten rules we invented online and now enforce in public without irony.
Diagnosis — The phrase already names a real problem. We define it properly.
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