How is flounce used in real life?

Flounce can be a verb (e.g., He flounced the subreddit) or a noun (His subreddit flounce was so childish).

It is often used in the context of calling out flouncers. Its users may complain, genuinely or humorously, about those who flounce as if they are the worst humans in existence.

No one respond to the flounce post. Please keep it classy and be the bigger person — wine and women (@spiralgoddess) September 4, 2009

For others, flouncing serves as a form of entertainment. People often like to sit back, relax, and watch the drama unfold.

Personally I'm on the edge of my chair waiting for the next whiny flounce post or counter post on TechCrunch HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS? — Craig Calef (@craigcalef) September 17, 2011

I follow a horsey page on FB it has a huge following. There is a group in it who are very vocal & aggressive and seem to revel in how many people they can make ‘flounce off’ I love a good mute button me 🤣 I’ve never had to do that on here. — Michelle 👩🏻👁🐶🐴 (@mishcousin) August 27, 2018

Some people will own up to their own flouncing behavior. They may complain that they want to flounce due to the annoyingness of a group, or they might admit to being a #dramaqueen.

As flounced has aged, it has sometimes softened in tone, referring to a more temporary and even less dramatic departure from a site—though still because one is extremely irritated by content or users there.

Contemplating a Facebook flounce as a hell of a lot of people on there are idiots. — Calz 🇪🇺 (@CornishCalzone) April 11, 2013

Note that flounce can be used in other contexts, such as a type of dress that’s pleated but flow-y. Flounce can also be used in its original, “floundering” sense, especially in the expression flounce out of the room.

More examples of flounce:

“It’s sad how some people interpret ANY correction as a personal assault, though. I myself have flounced from an Asperger Women’s group on Facebook, because the page owner personally attacked me after I offered her what I thought was a gentle correction on a point she was making about drug treatments for various ASD symptoms. It was not the first time she had made sweeping statements and I just decided I no longer wanted to be associated with that group.”

—Melissa G (commenter), I Speak of Dreams (blog), February 2013