A category that references what is left after a shitpost. Mening a text that is influenced by and has all the trappings of a shitpost: camp, kitsch, blown out aesthetics and clearly delirious plot or premises, but that takes out all of the levity associated with it, instead, we are meant to take it seriously and even dourly, instead of laughing along with it. Authorial intent bears some relevance to the proper application of this category, meaning that it is necessary for the author of the work to have imbued the text with these qualities, rather than their presence being unintentional (e.g. The Room)
Some precursors of the genre might be, as works bearing very little verisimilitude and over the top aesthetically, which present themselves as earnest works:
- Collapse, by nick land
- Unknown death 2002, by yung lean
Some precursors of the genre might be, as works bearing very little verisimilitude and over the top aesthetically, which present themselves as earnest works:
- Collapse, by nick land
- Unknown death 2002, by yung lean
"Have you heard Brat, by Charli XCX? I saw the cover art and thought it was a shitpost, but then all of the songs, even though they bear a lot of resemblance with the aesthetics of rave culture shitpost memes, are really earsnest, come even deep and moving."
"yeah man, thats because it's not a shit post, it's post-shit"
"yeah man, thats because it's not a shit post, it's post-shit"
by ddcorreia June 05, 2025