Citations:glowie

English citations of glowie

Noun: "(slang, derogatory, alt-right) a person believed to be an infiltrator or spy"

• 2021, Olga Khazan, "The Far Right’s Fear of ‘Glowies’", The Atlantic, 25 January 2021:

  The term is in widespread use among extremists: On January 6, one Telegram user made their channel, which was popular with the far right, private because “nameless faceless glowies are joining.”

• 2021, Matei Balan, "The New Right 2.0: Participatory Culture and the Politics of the Extreme Right", thesis submitted to the University of Oslo, page 39:

  The 'glowie' is believed to engage with the community for the purpose of provoking and then building a criminal case, writing an article, or simply collecting information about community members and then make their personal details public so that they can be publicly shamed or physically assaulted (doxing).

• 2021, anonymous, quoted in Henrik Bergius, "'BASED, REDPILLED, AND FPBP': Examining identification through discursive/affective practices on 4chan /pol/", thesis submitted to the University of Gothenburg, page 41:

  And the board is full of glowies, careful what you say.

• 2021, anonymous, quoted in Alva Kinneholm & Julia Bergman, "'No friends, no job, no girlfriend': en kritisk diskursanalys om Incels kollektiva identitet på forumet Incels.is", thesis submitted to Uppsala University, page 46:

  If any whore or glowie is reading this, yeah go fuck yourself in the ass. Can't even hate anything or anyone nowadays "teehee sweetie this world be perfect"

• 2021, Katharina J. Nordbø, "Among Us, Around Us, Against Us: The Alt-Right’s Metaphoric Construction of Black, Muslim, Jewish, and Transgender Others as Monstrous in Anonymous Fora", thesis submitted to the University of Bergen, pages 14-15:

  Not understanding the linguistic codes of a forum often results in the person being labeled a “newfag” and “normie,” or alternatively a “glowie/glowfaggot” and “shill” (often assumed to work for the CIA or similar)– i.e., being cast as an outsider who is not allowed participation in the discourse. This helps to reaffirm a strong collective identity among the established forum users.

• 2022, Noah Hawley, Anthem, unnumbered page:

  "Are you glowies?"

  "Are we what?" says Louise.

  "You know, glowies, spies."

• 2022, Ian Kirkpatrick, Boom, Boom, Boom, unnumbered page:

  “Glowies are hiding everywhere. Listening, waiting to violate you every way to Sunday. They legalized every bit of that shit before I was even born, you know?”

• 2022, Joselyne Quiroz, "'Life Wasn't Supposed To Be This Way': Involuntary Celibacy Among Young Men Online", paper submitted to the University of Chicago, page 39:

  After this point, I was perceived as annoying, bitchy, and as a possible government informant, or “glowie” as they called me during that time (Hanson and Richards 2019).