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It’s Troll Week on Mashable. Join us as we explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of internet trolling.
Facebook meme groups are the lifeblood of modern college culture. For one school, a power struggle between a hacker and shitposters became a bonding experience for a whole student body.
If there’s anything that this generation of young people can do without fail, it’s shitposting. In an surprisingly nuanced entry on Urban Dictionary, a user defines shitpost as “any content on the internet whose humor derives from its surreal nature and/or its lack of clear context.” Differing from memes in that a meme’s humor “comes from its repeatability,” a shitpost’s humor stems from its tendency to ridicule a situation by making something out of nothing. Read more…
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