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In Cyberspace culture, shitposting is posting posts or content to an online forum or social media that is "of aggressively, ironically, and of trollishly poor quality".^{[one] [two] [iii] [iv] [v]} Shitposts are intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the biggest reaction with the to the lowest degree attempt. Sometimes they are made as part of a coordinated flame war to make the site unusable by its regular visitors.^[6]

Definition and usages [edit]

Shitposting is a modern form of provocation on the internet (the term itself appeared around the mid-2000s on image boards such as 4chan), but the concept is non new. The early 20th-century art motility Dadaism created art that was intentionally low-quality or offensive to provoke the art world.^{[vii] [viii]}

Writing in Polygon, Sam Greszes compared shitposting to Dadaism's "disruptive, context-free pieces that, specifically because they were and then absurd, were seen as revolutionary works both artistically and politically". Greszes writes that the goal of shitposting is "to make an audience and then confused at the lack of content that they laugh or smile".^[ix]

Shitposting is often misunderstood in pop culture; journalist Jessica Lindsay qualified it with an actual definition:

Shitposting is nothing of value. It is the online equivalent of shooting tin can cans with a potato gun in a patch of wasteland. It's repeating what the person you're with says in a stupid voice until they requite upwards and go dwelling house. The idea that shitposting is some media pull a fast one on that'south been harnessed by the Tory party with their Comic Sans posters defeats entirely the indicate of the act; to be stupid with no inherent goal (or at least not a serious one).^[ten]

Professor Greg Barton, an good on terrorism at Deakin University, said racist "shitposting" is common across the cyberspace, and is a style for people to connect and gain attention. "The matter virtually social media is that information technology's social. You want some feedback, you want people to like your stuff whether it's Instagram or Facebook", he said. "Shitposting is all about getting your profile upwards, getting a response and the more than ironic and funny you can be the more yous get."^{[eleven] [12]}

In modern politics [edit]

The political uses of shitposting came to prominence during the 2016 United States presidential election. In May of that yr, The Daily Dot wrote that a shitpost is "a deliberate provocation designed for maximum impact with minimum try".^[13]

In September 2016 the pro-Trump group Nimble America received widespread media attention.^{[14] [15] [sixteen]} The Daily Beast described the group as "defended to 'shitposting' and circulating cyberspace memes maligning Hillary Clinton".^[fourteen]

In September 2016, The Independent wrote that shitposting is an apolitical "tool that can be put to a diverseness of furnishings".^[17] Merely posts such as these appeared long before the 2016 Us presidential election. Engineering & Engineering science magazine wrote that "shitposting, whether from the left or right, is perilously close to delivering an online metastasis of Orwell's Two-minute Hate [sic]".^[18]

In November 2016, Esquire magazine wrote, "internet mockery is emerging as a legitimate political technique: shitposting. Perhaps the 2020 election volition be all shitposting."^[xix]

In March 2018, talking near Facebook grouping New Urbanist Shitposting or New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens, Chicago magazine divers information technology as "posts that are meant to exist awkward and irrelevant, aggravating and distracting social media communities from discussing their topic at hand".^{[20] [21]}

In 2019, the BBC'due south political editor Laura Kuenssberg incorrectly described shitposting as "political parties or entrada groups brand an advert that looks really rubbish and people share it online saying, 'Oh I can't believe how shit this is' then it gets shared and shared and shared and shared and they go, 'Ha ha ha, job washed.'" The Financial Times said the correct description of shitposting was "posting ostentatiously inane and contextless content to an online forum or social network with the issue of derailing discussion". It gave the example of Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson's beingness forced to deny she had killed squirrels for fun after online trolls fabricated upwardly a story about her having done and so.^{[22] [23]}

In popular civilisation [edit]

• The Storm Area 51 event that gained worldwide attention was created by an business relationship chosen "Shitposting cause im in shambles".^[24]
• Brenton Tarrant, a self-described shitposter who committed the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings,^[25] posted links to his live-streamed shooting on 8chan.^[11]

Come across also [edit]

Look up shitpost in Wiktionary, the free lexicon.

• 4chan
• 8chan
• Internet troll
• Internet civilisation
• Reddit
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Discord

References [edit]

1. ^ "How spammers almost destroyed the biggest 'Simpsons' meme page". The Daily Dot. 2016-08-24. ...but that doesn't quite speak to the essence of 'shitposting', which encompasses content of aggressively, ironically, and of trollishly poor quality. Incoherent jokes, hasty Photoshopping, mashups, irrelevance, errors in spelling or grammar—all are hallmarks of the shitpost...
2. ^ "The racist, sexist alt-right is celebrating over Leslie Jones' apple-polishing humiliation". Mic (media company). On alt-right forums, hate speech is passed off every bit "shitposting"—purposeful offensiveness meant to shock and provoke, a counterweight to calls for safe spaces and trigger warnings.
3. ^ "Shitpostbot 5000 proves net memes will outlive humans". Geek.com. Archived from the original on 2018-06-14. Retrieved 2016-09-23 .
4. ^ "Multimedia Artist manuel arturo abreu on Shitposting and the Infinite Curlicue". Newspaper. 2016-08-25. I besides think I subconsciously associate endless curlicue with low-quality / spammy content, memes, shitposting, etc, which appeals to me.
5. ^ Biggs, John (2016-09-23). "Papa, what's a shitpost?". TechCrunch. Merely retrieve that the shitpost isn't an expression of power rather it is the derailment of discourse.
6. ^ Walker, Alex (2016-04-05). "Purges and politics in cyberspace". Cherwell. 'Shitposting' according to the Open up Oxford administrators Ash MQ & co involves 'a small coterie of members posting in-jokes, diary entries, and pictures of excrement' which meant that 'discussions were derailed, serious threads became lost amongst the nonsense, and most of the group's over 4000 members were put off ever getting involved.'
7. ^ Francis M. Naumann, New York Dada, 1915–23 Archived 2018-10-28 at the Wayback Car, Abrams, 1994, ISBN 0-81093676-3
8. ^ Mario de Micheli (2006)
9. ^ Greszes, Sam (2018-12-17). "Shitposting is an art, if history is any indication". Polygon . Retrieved 2018-12-eighteen .
10. ^ "FAO BBC, this is what shitposting really is". Metro. 2019-11-08. Retrieved 2020-06-thirteen .
11. ^ ^{a b} Boseley, Matilda (2019-03-17). "Inside the 'shitposting' subculture the alleged Christchurch shooter belonged to". The Sydney Morning time Herald . Retrieved 2020-06-xiii .
12. ^ TellMAMA (2019-03-xv). "Brenton Tarrant: How the media helped turn the 'shitposting' terrorist into a meme". TELL MAMA . Retrieved 2020-06-13 .
13. ^ "How to speak like a Donald Trump supporter". The Daily Dot. 2016-05-02. ...shitposting means good posts with bad behavior. It has roots in older communities like Something Awful and 4chan, which celebrates the shitpost like no other. The shitpost is a troll, a deliberate provocation designed for maximum touch with minimum effort. It's bad. Information technology's practiced.
14. ^ ^{a b} Ben Collins, Gideon Resnick (2016-09-23). "Palmer Luckey: The Facebook Well-nigh Billionaire Secretly Funding Trump'due south Meme Machine". The Daily Creature.
15. ^ Hern, Alex (2016-09-23). "Oculus Rift founder Palmer Luckey spends fortune backing pro-Trump 'shitposts'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077.
16. ^ Horwitz, Josh (2016-09-23). "The founder of Oculus is funding a group that "shitposts" anti-Hillary Clinton memes". Quartz (publication).
17. ^ "Shitposting: What is the bizarre online behaviour that could win Donald Trump the election?". The Independent. 2016-09-23. Shitposting in itself doesn't appear to have much of a politics, instead being a tool that can be put to a variety of effects—beingness used from everyone from the far-right such as Trump fans to left-wing groups online similar those meant to support Bernie Sanders.
18. ^ Dempsey, Paul (2016-09-27). "Existent-world politics torpedo Facebook's virtual pioneer". Engineering & Technology.
19. ^ "Why Canada Can't Express joy At America Anymore". Esquire. 2016-xi-07.
20. ^ Mortice, Zach (29 March 2018). "Meet the 61,000 Transit Nerds of Facebook'south 'New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens'". Chicago. Tronc. Retrieved 30 Apr 2018.
21. ^ Mortice, Zach (9 Apr 2018). "Run across the 61,000 Transit Nerds of Facebook's 'New Urbanist Memes for Transit-Oriented Teens'". Zach Mortice. zachmortice.com. Retrieved thirty April 2018.
22. ^ "Year in a word: Shitposting". www.ft.com . Retrieved Mar 21, 2021.
23. ^ "This week's biggest Twitter controversy? Jo Swinson's squirrel problem | Joel Golby". the Guardian. November 21, 2019. Retrieved Mar 21, 2021.
24. ^ Frank, Allegra (Jul 12, 2019). "More two 1000000 people have RSVP'd to "storm Area 51"". Vocalisation . Retrieved Mar 21, 2021.
25. ^ "Shitposting, Inspirational Terrorism, and the Christchurch Mosque Massacre". bellingcat. 2019-03-xv. Retrieved 2020-06-13 .

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