Shitposting
You might remember it as shitpost
This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.
2010·The social era
Posting material that is deliberately, ironically bad, usually to derail a discussion or to get the largest reaction for the least effort.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- shitpost
- Spread in
- 2010
- Format
- Post
- Where it started
- The word appeared on image boards such as 4chan in the middle of the 2000s
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
Deliberately low-effort or aggressively pointless posting, done well enough that the low effort is the joke. Named on Something Awful, exported everywhere, and now the ordinary description of a whole register of internet writing.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
More from 2010You were there
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SourcesWhat was read
Sources last read on . That date is about the history on this page. Whether the media still plays is checked separately and can change any day. How ViralWorld documents things