culture vulture
(informal, humorous) A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.
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(informal, humorous) A person with a rapacious, sometimes inauthentic, interest in the arts.
—unless of course "culture" is thought to be something decoratively added when all else has been accomplished, the fairy on the Christmas tree: an approach which opens wide the way for culture-vultures and peddlars of arty gentility, upo…
“i will say tho, mars is, imo, a culture vulture. i love uptown funk. i think hes a brilliant marketer. but hes just that....a marketer. hes selling you an image and very cynically weaponizing his ambiguity.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(slang, derogatory, sociology, derogatory) Someone who engages in cultural appropriation; a cultural appropriator.
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