sealioner

plural sealioners

1. InternetderogatoryA sealion; one who engages in sealioning.

   Simply put, a sealioner asks you a lot of questions (whose answers are already available in the public domain) about a statement you’ve made online, but it’s not because they are genuinely curious.

   2022 July 17, Shephali Bhatt, “It’s called sealioning, and we’re still looking it up”, in mint

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   Much like actual interrogators, sealioners bombard the target with question after question, digging and digging until the target either says something stupid or is so pissed off that they react in the extreme.

   2015 March 24, Sarah Seltzer, “Beyond Mansplaining: A New Lexicon of Misogynist Trolling Behaviors”, in Flavorwire, archived from the original on 25 Mar 2015