Poverty porn is a strategic tactic which often reveals itself in the form of photographs and videos in order to drum up support (often financial) and draw sympathy/interest from the public. The promotional material from charitable organisations often cause feelings of immense guilt and an urgent desire to help.
Pictures of starving children with their ribcages poking through their skin, dilapidated houses that appear one breath away from tumbling to the ground, well-dressed men and women entering poor neighbourhoods that are drowning in poverty to bring hope by the way of cash or kind are all examples of poverty porn that I am sure most of us have come across.