minispectacles

Noun

minispectacle (plural minispectacles)

1. A minor, small-scale spectacle (impressive event).
   • But by bombarding users with distorted and deracinated images, the Internet instead just forces us to confront increasingly bizarre minispectacles, often right when were most vulnerable — alone, anxious, looking for answers.2007 December 16, Virginia Heffernan, “Haunted Mouses”, in New York Times