A glowie arc is the narrative journey someone in an online community appears to follow as they gradually reveal what others believe to be fed-like behavior — starting as a trusted member and escalating toward increasingly provocative, rule-pushing, or legally questionable rhetoric until the community concludes they were never genuine. The concept treats the suspected infiltrator as a character with a story: there's an introduction phase, a trust-building phase, and then an escalation phase where the glowie behavior becomes unmistakable. It's a framework applied with varying degrees of seriousness.
Looking back at his post history, the whole thing was a textbook glowie arc — joined in January, acting sus by March, dropped completely after the admin ban.
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