"hellsite" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: hellsites [plural]
Etymology: From hell + site. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|hell|site}} hell + site Head templates: {{en-noun}} hellsite (plural hellsites)
  1. (Internet slang, humorous) A social media platform (particularly Facebook, TikTok, Twitter or Tumblr) that attracts users despite issues with its design, functionality, or culture. Tags: Internet, humorous Categories (topical): Tumblr, Twitter
    Sense id: en-hellsite-en-noun-Fx1vhfKH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2018 June, David Williams, “Naked guns for a soft target”, in The Wine Merchant, page 15:",
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          "ref": "2019, @recordsANDradio, quoted in Kelyn Soong, \"People & Places,\" Washington City Paper, 10 May 2019, page 88",
          "text": "\"I had no idea that it would end up consuming so much of my time, so I just picked two things I enjoy,\" he says about his Twitter handle. \"I might've chose something else that made more sense if I had known how popular this hellsite would become!\""
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          "ref": "2022 April 14, Delia Cai, “Severance, the New York Times’s Twitter Guidelines, and the Forever Illusion of Work-Life Balance”, in Vanity Fair:",
          "text": "Every other news cycle, when any particular quake related to someone saying something stupid or disagreeable or out of touch or oftentimes simply oversharey occurs, it triggers a recurrent tsunami of contemplation of why any of us in the industry are on the hellsite at all.",
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