The origin of the term:
I have only run across “sealioning” on Lemmy, and in my experience it is usually a way of accusing people of (a) being polite in a disagreement which is obviously a bad thing (b) asking for evidence of what someone’s saying, which is obviously a bad thing.
I have literally never seen it applied in the form where someone is actually being obnoxious, chasing a person into other threads, asking for evidence that has already been provided, etc.
I’d argue it’s highly present in irl “debates:” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfAEDLjwO7I
If you don’t eat yer meat, you can’t have any pixels. How can you have any pixels if you don’t eat yer meat?"
See, this is why I very much enjoy being a grown-ass adult and an asshole.
I get to tell those fuckers to go fuck themselves, then block them (online), throw them out (in my house), leave (outside my house), shoot them (if they try to follow me into my house).
People don’t realize that not everything anyone says is a fucking debate. It’s okay to tell people to bugger off into the sunset, that you aren’t debating.
