Doesn’t anyone here know that the Death Note (1) curses all those who use it with misfortune and (2) will trap your soul in limbo after use?

Nah, I’m good. Tweezers and a matchstick.

Did somebody say Inferno?

Getting mangoed and eating a stone.

Make your data useless or wrong.

More passively, there’s probably an oddly large amount of John Does born on January 1, 2000 ;)

More offensively, anti-image-gen data poisoning such as Nightshade exists. It’s well-defended against IIRC so hopefully someone can Cunningham’s Law correct me. And this is also more solo of a movement (as opposed to gaining mass support for something)

Not sure about the latter, but NZT was the focal “smart” drug in Limitless (a show on the premise “this drug makes u smart but if u stop taking it bad stuff happens”)

For those who jump around too much like I do, remember:

Say it with me, boys:

Squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel squirrel.

Relevant xkcd.

Antimetaboles, maybe? It’s when you switch two words for poetic effect.

When the goin’ gets tough, the tough get goin’!

It’s fun to sound pseudo-poetic by trying to make one on the fly. Easier than a limerick

In this world, you either have bot aim, or you have aimbot.

It’s better to cum in the sink than to sink in the cum

_{Shakespeare was lowbrow too, ok}

A cam unregistered is what I need
for grainy YouTube crowdsourced treasures mine.
The seventh window’s surfers are agreed:
our time’s demarked when there’s a mark of time.

Really? It was this one for me

edit: maybe I had my memories crossed into mixture

I have the most minmaxed memory of anyone I know.

I can’t remember faces. Names. Barely remember people. Events? Psssh. My coats go missing. Jackets, hats, scarves, you bet I need to attach stuff to myself and keep a gruesomely detailed calendar.

But in school, I could remember concepts really well. Not individual facts, mind you, but concepts. So I had to learn in this sort of concept-first way to “guess” what the individual facts were. I don’t remember the name of the dinner I ate last night but I knew stats geometrically/sum-ly enough to re-guess the formulas I needed to know. History classes definitely got weird with this minmax though.

Tbf I think this style is actually an emerging phenomenon. Salman Khan spoke of an “inventing math” type of learning, and 3 Blue 1 Brown and that one MIT prof forgot his name made a brilliant repetoire for geometrically/conceptually training linear algebra. Makes me wonder what pedagogy will be like in two or four decades. Hopeful c:

How do I unimagine that?

It’s scientifically defined (Woods, 2023).

https://doi.org/10.1080/03626784.2023.2272988

I propose a definition of shitposting that embodies four distinct elements: a reliance on absurdity or “meaninglessness,” the critique or disruption of online discourses, the employment of an “internet ugly” aesthetic, and the use of meta-languaging.

Meaninglessness/absurdity - There’s no intrinsic meaning in the content, but there is in said content’s circulation. Shitposts “mock”, “denigrate”, “construct an image of authenticity”, and “accrue social capital” (he probably means upvotes or Discord reactions)

Disruption - It can be used politically, e.g. the alt-right drowning out opponents, or just plain derailment, using “ironic references… to confound commentary or analysis” (he uses a Twitter example in the article – i.e. among the “Here’s what I did today!” there’s a Jon Arbuckle of in of out, and it disrupts your train of thought)

Internet ugly aesthetic - Kinda obvious. Motion blur on a plastic bag sort of stuff. But he diagnoses an internet-queasiness I didn’t know I had: “[shitposting] provides a critique of the overly streamlined information ecosystem of the internet… an imposition of messy humanity… on smooth gradients, blemish correcting Photoshop, and AutoCorrect”

Meta-languaging - Well, memes evolve. It’s part of their meaningless-content meaningful-use interaction. Like a meme with a random Subway sandwich on it, obviously insanely edited over repeatedly.

Actually a really interesting read. The man quotes dril and talks about how he started a small movement where “corncobbing” was an insult.