noun
Internet Slang
dogpile
· noun · internet
A swarm of users piling on one account in coordinated replies and quote-tweets.
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Definitions
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When a horde of users descend on one account at once — quote-tweets, replies, screenshots, the works — usually after one tweet went viral for the wrong reasons. Can be playful ratio-ing or full harassment depending on the target.
“She made one bad take about pasta and got dogpiled by every Italian on the timeline.”
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Verb form: to take part in that swarm.
“I try not to dogpile randoms, but that tweet was asking for it.”
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dogpile In A Sentence
She made one bad take about pasta and got dogpiled by every Italian on the timeline.
I try not to dogpile randoms, but that tweet was asking for it.
Origin & Usage
Older general-English word for a heap of people jumping on one, repurposed for the social-media phenomenon of mass online attacks.
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