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Content deliberately designed to provoke an angry reaction, which is then used to generate further engagement, to mock the reactor, or to portray the reactor as irrational. Reactive rage bait is common on social media: a poster makes an intentionally inflammatory statement, waits for outraged replies, then screenshots those replies and shares them with captions like “Look how triggered they are.” The original bait is often carefully constructed to be just plausible enough to draw genuine ire, but the reaction—not the bait—becomes the focus of ridicule.
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