On Twitter, sealioning often also goes along with swarming, i.e.,tagging fellow ideologues in your responses to the science advocates, alerting them so that they can join in with the sealioning. Those tagged them tag others and so on in order to produce a swarm of "sea lions." 1/https://twitter.com/DrShepherd2013/status/1103627901138857984 …
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I've experienced this myself, when a vaping advocate responded to a Tweet of mine questioning the safety claims of vapers. They Retweeted and tagged fellow vapers, who in turn tagged more vapers. Before I knew it I was buried in notifications of responses that lasted days. 3/
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It was a veritable tsunami. All I could do was to start blocking, which I did. This experience is why I now have such a low threshold for blocking vapers. They were worse than antivaxers as far as swarming goes. I've never experienced anything like it before or since. 4/4
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