What would you personally consider a shitpost? Basic definition below. Let me know how your definition varies.

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• gegil@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Shitpost is a low effort humor.

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is my understanding too

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s a quick easy definition.

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  • redsand@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Often posted and commented on from a toilet

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A shitpost should both entertain (via shock, absurdity, low-brow humour, etc) but also do so in such a way as to be a waste of time to actually read, time that could have been better spent on just about anything else.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’d agree

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• YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If its deliberately provocative and offensive then its ragebait.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is that a difference you draw or can they be both?

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    • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think of them as different.
      Shitpost are for laughs. Ragebait is mean spirited.

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    • YoFrodo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ragebait is a type of trolling, shitposting is more in the realm of stupid/silly humor

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• makeshiftreaper@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I take the Supreme Court’s line on shitposts. They’re hard to define, but I know it when I see it

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Gang shit

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• RustyNova@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My definition of shitpost is content with a joke that isn’t that good. It doesn’t matter that the media took 3 minutes to makes, or a month, or that it made you laugh for a whole minute, as long as the joke is simple and “stupid” that’s a shitpost.

  This is a prime example of a shitpost. Lemmy Shitpost-17344908

  The joke isn’t deep. It’s just that it wasted your time.

  Another example is this www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CToEldwJdI

  Despite being high quality and making me laugh hard when I first heard it, the joke is pretty shallow, thus a shitpost

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• altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its not all about feces. There has to be something else.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Piss

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    • altphoto@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Right, how could we forget! Piss. Truly a remarkable archivement by almost every human alive today.

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• yesman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think the spirit of shitposting is in opposition to the spirit of taxonomy. And it’s super ironic to argue over the definition.

  Precisely defining shitpost would annihilate it’s meaning and we’d be forced to use another word.

  If you pay attention, you’ll notice that English is actually pretty bad at keeping slippery meanings contained inside her words.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Uh oh big man with big words coming in. Good to get your feedback though considering you’re one of the people I’m talking about not seeming to understand the concept.

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• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It should fundamentally be deliberately stupid. It could be offensive, but if so it should be offensive in a stupid way.

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  • Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Interesting

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• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh god I haven’t checked my posts yet…

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