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A digitallighting tactic where a target’s legitimate concerns, traumas, or experiences are minimized, mocked, or dismissed as overreactions. Abusers flood the target’s mentions with sarcastic comments (“oh no, so tragic”), post memes that ridicule the target’s distress, or claim that the target is “playing the victim.” The goal is to make the target feel that their pain is absurd, that they have no right to be upset, and that any response will only make them look foolish. Digital trivializing normalizes abuse by painting it as harmless fun.
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