User blog comment:MiniDaggers/RWBY Volume 4 Commentary Summary/@comment-25936766-20170623001241/@comment-4010415-20170624010455

When I hear "gaslighting", I more so think of this kind of thing: "Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or members of a group, hoping to make targets question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target's belief."

So, things such as "I didn't say that", "I never did that", "What're you talking about?", "That didn't happen".

It's like when some guy was talking to... I think it was Taylor Swift? And he said something about how he's such a nice guy. She said that a lot of guys who self-describe as "a nice guy" tend to not really be all that nice beneath the surface. His response? "I didn't say I was a nice guy." It seems like a stupid thing to say, but if it wasn't recorded, it could've lead her to question whether or not she had actually heard him call himself "a nice guy".