A fork of Rural Dictionary
Advocating a political or philosophical position, and/or taking up a public cause, from a position of vanity, for the primary purpose of demonstrating your conformity with fashionable pop culture values.
Angela's sudden advocacy for the local pet shelter was mostly an exercise in public relations and virtue signalling. She had never much cared for dogs and cats before, but she instinctively understood teary-eyed public support for defenseless animals generally said something good about her as a person.
Virtue signaling describes a behavior of an individual openly seeking attention and external validation by ostentatiously pronouncing (generally through the use of social media) themselves to the world as someone possessing high moral values for a trivial decision made or action taken.
Brad: Did you see Thad made a lengthy post on TikTok about eradicating world hunger after his business school spring-break trip to Africa? Chad: Is he donating his trust fund money to any major international world hunger charities? Is he going to work for one of these charities after business school? Brad: No, he just accepted his offer in private equity and is just virtue signaling.
Virtue signaling is a word angry Proud Boy wannabes use to shame anyone who mentions Black Lives Matter.
"Black lives matter!" "You're virtue signaling so people think you're a good person." "No, Black lives really do matter. You just want me to stop talking about this. I won't, and if want to talk about how good a person I am on social media, I'll do that, too."
Virtue signalling is when somebody superficiality advertises their support for a cause and goes out of their way to publicly condemn others in order to seek validation. Drawing attention to their self righteousness to appear morally superior.
Karen: “You’re a jerk because you wear Nike, don’t you know they exploit people overseas”. Andre: “You’re Chanel bag was made overseas too, virtue signalling doesn’t make you any better than anybody else!”.
One of the many nauseating buzzwords used by conservatives as an alternative to constructing a coherent argument. Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean anything - and actually doubles as a good way to spot cretins in the wild.
“This guy just said virtue signalling unironically, let’s get away from this asshat”
A phenomena where someone campaigns for or otherwise shows their support for an often popular position without actually doing anything meaningful to further the cause that they claim to champion. This is one of the main signs of late democracy and otherwise shows the prevalence of cult figures in a society: political or otherwise. Also takes form with "thoughts and prayers", and other meaningless statements.
-Damn, all of these people are virtue signalling about the Freedom Convoy. -The easiest way to become respected on twitter is to virtue signal in support of trans rights.
Someone who pushed for mandatory vaccines and then sends “thoughts and prayers” to dead and/or dying athletes who fell into cardiac arrest from the vaccine itself
The NFL demands players be vaccinated ahead of 2021 season. The virtue signal vaxtards all applaud and cheer for the NFL is doing the “right” thing. Vaxtard: “ I pray hope to god Damar Hamlin will be ok”