Citations:milkshake duck

English citations of milkshake duck

verb

To reveal (a person or business recently beloved by the internet) to be problematic.

• 2017, What Do You Meme Read Later Reader, page 85:

  Yes, most people would probably end up Milkshake Ducking themselves. (We are all, most of less, terrible, shitty people online.)

• 2020, Victoria Turk, Kill Reply All: A Modern Guide to Online Etiquette, from Social Media to Work to Love, Penguin (→ISBN), page 183:

  ... a question during one of the 2016 televised U.S. presidential debates. Bone became a social media darling overnight, only to get Milkshake Ducked a short while after, when people found questionable content in his Reddit history.

• 2020, Dana Loesch, Grace Canceled: How Outrage is Destroying Lives, Ending Debate, and Endangering Democracy, Simon and Schuster (→ISBN):

  A small chain of Oregon coffee shops, popular with the locals and an employer of hipsters, was milkshake ducked. Camila Coddou, an ex-employee of Ristretto Roasters, came across Nancy Rommelmann's “#MeNeither” YouTube videos, ...

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  Sometime they deserve a milkshake ducking. We are the worst and best enforcers of social behavior, and there are times we have to hold the line for ...

• 2021, The College Hill Independent, volume 42, issue 5, page 3:

  When the former Bon Appetit BIPOC staffers agreed to tell their intimate stories of workplace trauma to Reply All, they did so under the impression that they would be part of a larger reflection on widespread racism in media. The Milkshake Ducking, or put more candidly, the reckoning, must go beyond the one-time exposé and high profile firings of a couple of scapegoats.

• 2002, “How a Lesbian Emu Influencer Got Milkshake Ducked” from ICYMI, published in Slate (2022-10-26)

Mention-y and incomprehensible:

• 2020, Jon Dean, The Good Glow: Charity and the Symbolic Power of Doing Good, Policy Press (→ISBN):

  While never referred to as 'milkshake ducking', challengers to the purity of the charitable are key to understanding the basking glow of the symbolic power ...