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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=7&case_insensitive=on&content=gaslighting

It was peak 'gaslighting' in 1897, then fell off until it began spiking around 1998.

There's nothing for 'virtue signaling', but the non-corrupted version is necessary for a society. Signaling you're not going to randomly murder someone or violate other accepted norms can be considered a virtue in most societies. Only becomes a problem when the norms get distorted and ridiculous.