Country Dictionary

A fork of Rural Dictionary

Eyeball Pirates

- A business or person who engages in walled garden business models that deny users the ability to link to and follow content outside of the walled garden.

- A form of brute force attention capture and retention

Instagram is nothing but an eyeball pirates operation.

Eyeball pirates are the worst doom scroll source.

by jcjnyc2 February 25, 2025

Trojan Meme

A trojan meme, sometimes also known as trojan content, is a type of propaganda used to surreptitiously infiltrate a social space with the long term goal of changing perceptions of a political or taboo subject.

It is a type of social engineering that is used to alter or undermine a moral standard or shared value.

- Pepe the frog was a trojan meme used to make it ok to be a little bit racist.

- Dude, don't just doom scroll trojan content.

by jcjnyc2 February 20, 2025

Internet Brain

A malady in which one enters a state of mind that recognizes the value of network effects but becomes unmoored from common humanistic principles lost in the contemplation of said network effects.

Symptoms:

* Every thought is filtered through how this might appear or be perceived when shared online.

* Every idea is immediately productized into an app, site or platform
* Shallow rationalizations and/or detachment from the effects of ones own actions

Cures:
* Gardening

* Community service
* Mediation and prayer

Person A: Wouldn't it be cool if we did a stunt where we sold flame throwers to the general public?

Person B: I feel like you've got a bad case of internet brain.

by jcjnyc2 January 23, 2025