It gets used online for things, and there are whole communities devoted to shitposting, but I can’t find a clear set of rules for something to count as a shitpost. I remember querying whether a post on a shitposting community was witty enough to be a shitpost rather than just a shitty post, but of course not all the responses to that were terribly helpful!
I think of it as low effort but still has some slight potential to get a few laughs or start a conversation.
Shit (n): The waste that’s left when everything of use or value has been removed.
Pretty much any post that isn’t useful to anyone, is shit.
If it had a clear definition, we wouldn’t need a name like shitposting for it.
It’s posts that are a step up from piss-posting, but below regular unmodified posting.
What about shart-posting?
Starts off OK but ends in disappointment?
A meme or post that has no deeper meaning. If you have to analyze it or think about it, you’re already past a shitpost. The point of a shitpost is the stupidity of its superficial, useless, low-quality humor
It’s possible to have a high-quality, high-effort shitpost, but it’s rare, since by nature, high effort posts tend to also be meaningful. In my eyes, this is peak high effort shitpost
It was the dawn of the third age of mankind. Ten years after the Earth Minbari war. The Babylon project was dream giving form. It’s goal, to prevent another war by creating a place where humans and aliens could work out their differences peacefully. It’s a port of call. Home away from home for diplomas, hustlers, entrepreneurs, and wanders. 500,000 Humans and aliens wraped in two million five hundred thousand tons of spinning metal, all alone in the night. It can be a dangerous place, but it’s our last best hope for peace. This is the story of last of the Babylon stations. The year is 2258.
The name of the place is Babylon 5.
What was he, and what was on that data crystal he gave you?
Reflection, surprise, terror.
For the future.
Thanks for asking this, OP. I’ve been wondering this same thing for awhile with no real results when I search.