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What is the point of tattle life? ›

Founded in 2018, Tattle Life is a gossip forum dedicated to dissecting the lives of women in the public eye. Quietly, without mainstream recognition, Tattle has become one of the most-visited – and hate-filled – websites in the UK.

Tattle Life users speculate about influencers' lives, spout rumours, make hateful comments about them, and judge their life decisions. By Alice Porter on February 28, 2024. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable. The lives of influencers can be transfixing.

Tattle Life describes itself as a “commentary website” on which anonymous strangers can openly discuss and critique social media influencers, bloggers and anyone else who chooses to “monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain”.

Tattle Life describes itself as a platform for “commentary and critiques of people that choose to monetise their personal life as a business and release it into the public domain”, framing itself as a space where users can hold the rich and famous to account.

Although it's a natural reaction for many children to want to tell on someone when they do something wrong, tattling is usually frowned upon by most kids, parents, and teachers. When you tattle, you're inserting yourself into a situation that most likely doesn't and shouldn't involve you.

Tattling is reporting a peer's wrongdoing, when the situation is safe and the child can handle it herself. Telling is alerting adults that the situation is not safe and/or your child needs help managing the situation. Tattling to get a peer in trouble can be mean-spirited.

: to utter or disclose in gossip or chatter.

A tattletale is a person who tries to get someone in trouble by revealing secret information about them. Your tattletale brother will probably tell your parents that you were actually at the movies, not the library. The word tattletale is mostly used in the U.S. (in Britain it's more common to use telltale).

The child tattling wants to get someone else in trouble or avoid blame. The child tattling may have something to gain, such as attention or popularity. No one is hurt or in danger. It is not an important problem and can be solved without an adult.

What is a tattle code? A code to let someone sign up to Tattle Life. It's a website. I wouldn't give a code out because you can be banned for doing so.

How do you use tattle? ›

She was such a tattle-tale. They tattle when he opens the refrigerator.

One of the gossip sites with the biggest reputations is Tattle Life (aka Tattle), a British-based forum where there are hundreds of thousands of posts about influencers. Tattle calls itself a “commentary website on public business social media accounts” and its users tend mainly to be based in Britain and Ireland.

They may thrive on turmoil and delight in observing many people upset. They also may engage in the behavior in retaliation for something that person may have done many years ago or may have a different viewpoint than they have. They may also be jealous professionally of the individual who they are telling on.

to let out secrets. to chatter, prate, or gossip.

​tattle (on somebody) (to somebody) to tell somebody, especially somebody in authority, about something bad that somebody else has done synonym tell on somebody. You should learn that you just don't tattle on classmates.

Tattletail is a survival horror game created by Waygetter Electronics. The game features Furby-like toys called Baby Talking Tattletail, which the player must care for while avoiding the pursuit of its recalled predecessor, Mama Tattletail.

So, children who tattle have obtained enough social-emotional skills to refrain from hitting, but not enough to solve the problem on their own. Tattling also implies some degree of understanding of right and wrong, or at least an ability to predict what behavior adults are likely to disapprove of.

Why Adults Tattle. Tattling is a bid for attention. It's mean-spirited and often an attempt to get someone else in trouble. Children do it until they develop other problem-solving strategies, but unfortunately, some adults have not progressed past the tattletale stage.