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frankenbiting

  1. present participle and gerund of frankenbite

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frankenbiting (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of Frankenbiting
    • 2015 March 13, “Actually, reality TV isn't killing screen creativity – switch on”, in The Conversation AU:
      Though it’s tempting to keep rehashing the widespread academic and other evidence of worker exploitation and stolen wages (US$40 million a year by New York based, non-scripted TV companies alone in 2013, according to the Writer’s[sic] Guild of America), pitifully cheap production values, links to mass plastic surgery, eating disorders and generally diminishing morality in audiences, “frankenbiting” (where dialogue is deceptively edited to create better stories), metadata surveillance, the impoverishment of public discourses and the fact the that the whole thing is predicated on being real when it is extraordinarily fake – there is another aspect to reality TV that makes it even worse.
    • 2016 March 22, Laura Walters, “Lights, camera and a whole lot of editing - making a reality TV villain”, in Stuff:
      If you see someone talking before the camera cuts to a shot of something else while the voice continues, that's likely frankenbiting.