![]() Greszes writes that the goal of shitposting is "to make an audience so confused at the lack of content that they laugh or smile". Writing for Polygon, Sam Greszes compared shitposting to Dadaism's "confusing, context-free pieces that, specifically because they were so absurd, were seen as revolutionary works both artistically and politically". The term itself appeared around the mid-2000s on image boards such as 4chan, but the concept is not new the early 20th-century art movement Dadaism created art that was intentionally low-quality or offensive to provoke the art world. Shitposting is a modern form of online provocation. It may even sometimes be orchestrated as part of a co-ordinated flame war to render a website unusable by its regular visitors. Shitposts are generally intentionally designed to derail discussions or cause the biggest reaction with the least effort. In Internet culture, shitposting or trashposting is the act of using an online forum or social media page to post content that is satirical and of "aggressively, ironically, and trollishly poor quality" it may be considered an online analog of trash talk. Intentionally poor-quality social media posts Commonly reposted shitpost meme ("reaction image") originating from the /jp/ ( Otaku culture) board of 4chan, featuring the Touhou Project character Marisa Kirisame Another example of shitposting: an image containing nothing but keysmashed text.
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