Citations:cloutshark

Verb: "(Internet slang, derogatory) to obsessively and unscrupulously seek fame or influence"

 * 2022, Delia Cai, "It’s Elon Musk’s Timeline Now, We’re All Just Tweeting on It", Vanity Fair, 26 April 2022:
 * The quote retweet function has enabled strangers to jockey for space and a false sense of authority on other people's tweets. Sure, it's garden variety cloutsharking, but it feels more personal than that?
 * 2022, Amelia Beamer, "KING OF HATE Who is Milo Yiannopoulos?", The U.S. Sun, 29 November 2022:
 * One Twitter account said: "It’s cool how Fuentes and Yiannopoulos are both cloutsharking grifters so rather than quietly influence Kanye to push their message to normies they’ll ride front and center with him and torpedo his reputation so they can milk some attention by proxy."