Sealion

What do we mean by sealion?

A marine mammal of any of several genera in the family Otariidae (the eared seals).

A monster consisting of the upper part of a lion combined with the tail of a fish.

A subtle form of trolling involving "bad-faith" questions. You disingenuously frame your conversation as a sincere request to be enlightened, placing the burden of educating you entirely on the other party. If your bait is successful, the other party may engage, painstakingly laying out their logic and evidence in the false hope of helping someone learn. In fact you are attempting to harass or waste the time of the other party, and have no intention of truly entertaining their point of view. Instead, you react to each piece of information by misinterpreting it or requesting further clarification, ad nauseum. The name "sea-lioning" comes from a Wondermark comic strip. Urban Dictionary

Female sea lions are know as cows Male sea lions are called bulls Urban Dictionary

Sealioning is a term used to identify trolls who request citations when citations weren't necessary. It is akin to the meme of a child asking "Why?" after everything you say -- not even because they want to know, but as a bad faith way of faking interest while actually just trying to exhaust another person. For example, "Sealioning" itself has been Sealioned with bad faith "definitions" attempting to change the meaning of the word to benefit online trolls. Urban Dictionary

Akin to playing Devil's Advocate, but worse. Whereas, on occasion, someone playing Devil's Advocate can actually help someone sharpen arguments and make them better, Sealioning amounts to the meme of the little kid replying to every answer with, "Why?" The Sealion has NO interest in hearing any other side, OR of making substantial arguments of its own side. A Sealion will often make empirically ridiculous arguments in the hopes of getting blocked online, which they incorrectly define as "owning" the person who blocked them. In fact, on social media, if you check the Sealion's replies, they're often cut-and-paste replies, frequently 100% unrelated to the topic. The sole purpose is to suppress the free speech of actual people who might thwart the success of disinformation campaigns. Urban Dictionary

Trolling, which trolls call "Trying to engage in a controversial yet civil debate and requesting evidence from someone who refuses to provide such evidence to back up their claims." In short, sealioning is a form of censorship, in which case the trolls aim to exhaust free speech -- and if people block the toxic trolls, said trolls will just open up new accounts in the hope of making people be silent. Used to accurately describe trolls who "request evidence" of things that any SINCERE person could just Google themselves, if they SINCERELY wanted to know anything. But this is simply not their true intent. They have been trained to exhaust any actual civil debate by popping up like a loud sea lion to frustrate and annoy people into not talking about things which offend said sealions. "Sealioning" as a term is used to point out trolls' dishonesty by putting the blame where it belongs, on the one troll who tries to shout down SINCERE conversations by calling their trolling "debate." Urban Dictionary

Sealioning is a term used to describe the actions of villains who demand "citations" for things that are prima facie true, in an attempt to harass and silence facts that give them cognitive dissonance. As you can see on this very page of definitions, conservatives will even Sealion the term "Sealioning," because it diminishes their capacity to use this fascist tactic. Urban Dictionary

Verb A type of trolling in which someone repeatedly asks bad-faith questions, in an effort to get the truth silenced online. As you will see, trolls specifically hate the term "Sealioning," and will reply to it with... SEALIONING! Urban Dictionary

From Wikionary: "To intrude on a conversation with disingenuous questions in an attempt to engage in unwanted debate as a form of harassment." From Macmillandictionary.com: "In an online conversation, repeatedly asking a person questions or making comments which suggest that you are interested in what they are talking about, but are actually intended to annoy them" The reference is taken from "WONDERMARK: A Collabroation With The Dead" web comic #1062; "The Terrible Sea Lion" Urban Dictionary

Special little shit with an aptitude for getting it's ass kicked. Urban Dictionary

A person you intend to or have hooked up with. This often becomes a one night stand Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to sealion:
sealion, sea lion, selion, sea-lion.

Adjectives that are often used to describe sealion:
submarine, old.

Words that sound like sealion:
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