Poverty porn
tactics through media showing poverty to elicit sympathy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Poverty porn, pornography of poverty,[1] development porn, famine porn,[2] or stereotype porn,[3][4] is a type of media that uses a place's bad conditions. The bad conditions create sympathy and this sympathy can then be used to get money. This money will then go to charities or another type of cause.[5][6] Poverty porn is also a word that can be used to criticize movies that objectify people in poverty for the sake of entertaining a watcher.[7][8][9]