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or review-bombing
plural review bombings or review-bombings
: the flooding of a website with usually negative reviews (as of product or business)
While not always the case review bombing often seems targeted at projects that champion minorities, be it women, people of colour or the LGBTQIA community.—Thomas Mitchell
The Last Jedi also provoked an extreme fan reaction, and more review bombings where coordinated efforts were made to lower its rating on websites like Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb.—Andrew Blair
While it was critically praised, there was some amount of backlash and intense review-bombing, owing to some of the major twists the show had in store.—Narayan Liu
review bombing
2 of 2present participle of review bomb
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