Sansa Stark

Idk why you couldn't just google it..... y'all need to take the fucking initiative to educate your damn selves once in a while instead of just waiting for someone to hold your hand and walk you through why your ideas are shite. While you asked nicely know that these explanations are not

Urban Dictionary: poverty porn

But basically more than that, it's not just television shows and it's not just for "entertainment." Poverty porn is also when people use the examples of far less fortunate things to goad other people and themselves into believing that oooh they too can achieve happiness, even though these people have nothing! It becomes a gross vicious cycle of romanticisation and exploitation of those who aren't really in the position to refuse extra income/other benefits.

Another example of poverty porn:
Resort's fake shanty town 'poverty porn' experience draws anger

It's much like the type of inspirational porn, the so called motivational pictures passed around on places like Facebook or Pinterest of a person with prosthetic legs who climbed Mt Everest or some such feat bearing the legend "What's your excuse"

NOTTTT acceptable. Both cases are dehumanising and treat the marginalised people as some kind of ~mystical shaman spirit dickfuck~ that is a minor subplot on your otherwise unremarkable life. I love how it's just assumed that he can just speak for the people in question in those countries. Of course you want to see the happy shiny poor people, the ones that are sick or dying or protesting their oppressive government don't fit in with your suburban hookah shop ideologies that reek of patchouli, infected asshole and self importance.