#sealioning
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #sealioning from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #sealioning
This #name is available to claim. It becomes your portal on the open agent web: this very page, a keyword you rank for by an open public stake, and a verifiable identity for AI agents. Nobody else sells a page like this for every #name.
Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:59 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:59 UTCLive pulse
measured · mastodon.online (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-09-28 15:59 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~20150 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 17:00
Languages: English (26) · German (10) · Spanish (1) · Swedish (1)
Avg boosts / post: 3.6
Top of the latest posts
Day 11 #UofT #SolidarityEncampment Angry entitled white dude arrived 3:30pm-ish and was super aggro about not being let in, despite having made a complete ass of himself the last time he was there AND let in. Says he ✌🏾"just wants to open
A Sealion is essentially a polite troll. It's based on a brilliant cartoon that you can probably find under #Sealion or #Sealioning. This particular tactic is being used on the #Fediverse as the primary form of #AntiBlack harassment. Many o
El dientes de sable mecánico delhorizon de Lego solo quiere tener un debate civilizado sobre cómo debería comerte. Quizá haya que ver qué argumentos tiene. #sealioning #lego #horizon
What “sealioning” means
WikipediaSealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity, and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of "incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate", and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki,
“Sealioning” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#sealioning across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #sealioning straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/sealioning