Brigading
When one online community harasses another
Example
Did you see how badly those Star Wars trolls brigaded Kelly Marie Tran? I don't understand that sort of 'fan.'
Related Slang
Trolling | Posting offensive comments |
Troll | A person who posts offensive comments |
Derail | To take a discussion off topic |
Hot take | A controversial opinion |
Toxic | Negative |
Threadjacking | Steering a discussion away from the original topic |
Twitch | Video game streaming website |
Raid | To send viewers to another streamer's stream |
Jebaited | Deceived |
Kappa | Sarcasm |
Brigading means "harassing another online community." On Twitch, Reddit, and other online platforms, the members of one community sometimes take issue with another. If the first community begins collectively trolling the second, by posting a massive amount of inflammatory, offensive, and/or derailing comments, that's brigading.
Brigades can also be conducted against an individual, such as when a large, coordinated group of tweeters tweet provocative comments at a celebrity or a user who posted a hot take. Sometimes, brigades are conducted in good fun, but most often, they're toxic (and you should likely avoid joining in on them).