"17 second country" or "17 second society" is a term that originates from well cut, short video clips that only portray one side of an incident in an attempt to influence. It can be used to describe the
hectic, click-based modern media domain that values twisted forms of
political correctness in the form of individual "justice
seekers" while condemning ordinary things as questionable.
"I don't want to live in this 17 second country, did you hear they found out
this dude's workplace and got him fired because they didn't like his stupid Twitter joke?"
"X is such a 17 second country, all their major political
headlines are just viral clips from campaign rallies, protests or whatever"
"You know they had to change their brand name after that
vlogger made a video about how it's insulting to some minority, fucking wild. 17 sec society at its finest."