Citations:hellsite

English citations of hellsite

Noun: "(Internet slang, humorous) a social media platform (particularly Twitter or Tumblr) which one uses despite finding its design, userbase, or culture problematic"

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• 2016, tobermoriansass. Tumblr, "Like tbqh most of the discourse..." December 16, 2016. https://hamliet.tumblr.com/post/154553358779/cyanwrites-court-of-ocelot:

  Like tbqh most of the discourse on this hellsite sounds like this to me:

• 2018 January 16, Josh Hafner, “Steak-umm, the frozen cheesesteak brand, defeats Twitter in epic battle for verification”, in First Coast News:

  once we finally #VerifySteakUmm and blow the lid off this corrupted hellsite we'll do a @reddit AMA so all the fresh faces pouring in may know who we are and what we stand for

• 2018, David Williams, "Naked guns for a soft target", The Wine Merchant, June 2018, page 15:

  For those of you not active on the hellsite known as Twitter, Naked managed to finish the job of alienating the wine-writing community with a deliberately provocative piece of marketing copy that told consumers not to "trust wine critic recommendations ... they need to seem useful, or they'll be out of a job! So they invent trends and get paid to push you toward certain wines."

• 2019, Andrew Kirkconnell, "'Where Everyone Waddles Like Me': An Examination Of The Autistic Community On Tumblr.com", thesis submitted to McMaster University, page 48:

  That is not to say there are no issues with Tumblr's formatting and site design philosophy – after all, many site users refer to Tumblr half-jokingly as a "hellsite" because of some aspects of its culture and design – but rather that through design and cultural development, the site has become accessible to autistic users.

• 2019, @recordsANDradio, quoted in Kelyn Soong, "People & Places," Washington City Paper, 10 May 2019, page 88:

  "I had no idea that it would end up consuming so much of my time, so I just picked two things I enjoy," he says about his Twitter handle. "I might've chose something else that made more sense if I had known how popular this hellsite would become!"

• 2018, anonymous, quoted in Sara Tahire Hairetdin, "Impoliteness and gender in computer-mediated communication: a study of insults on Tumblr", thesis submitted to University of Stavanger, page 81:

  WHAT IN ALL THE SEVEN LEVELS OF THIS HELLSITE IS FUCKING WRONG WITH YOU?

• 2020, Adam Roberts, "The Imaginaries of Nineteen Eighty-Four", in The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four (ed. Nathan Waddell), page 272:

  Even its most enthusiastic users (and I am one such) refer to Twitter as 'this hellsite'.