cloutroversy
A controversial opinion or statement intended to gain social media engagement or increase exposure.
A: Do you actually believe that Jewish space lasers cause forest fires or did you tweet that just for clout?
G: That tweet was for the cloutroversy, I don't actually believe Jewish space lasers cause forest fires. Did you see how many new followers I got?
G: That tweet was for the cloutroversy, I don't actually believe Jewish space lasers cause forest fires. Did you see how many new followers I got?
cloutroversy
Artificially created deliberations among viewership of less-effective, attention-driven social media accounts/personalities.
Taytay stirred up a real cloutroversy among her 9 followers when she talked about how everyone over the age of 30 all use the same phrases.