“[insert]slop” comes from 4 chan’s antisemitic conspiracy “goyslop” btw, which initially referred to standard food given in schools and other institutions, like “pig slop” designed for the “goy” by jews, which the jews would never eat themselves. it evolved to refer to media and other mass-produced content with the same meaning
i’m not saying “ai slop” or “christmas slop” or whatever is a slur; honestly it’s a fun and convenient word, which makes it easier to recognise mass-produced but meaningless and useless products. but i want people to be aware of how much “meme” or “gen z” language comes from right-wing, incel and often antisemitic and almost always misogynistic places.
obviously “chad” “-oid” “-maxxing” “-pilled” and even pepe memes/slang come from these places, but i need you to take the time to consider: when these memes and this language slip so easily from highly misogynistic, racist and otherwise hateful places into mainstream, what else may come with it, or slip though when we don’t notice? how do these corners of the internet have such massive influence, to the point where much of “gen z language” comes from there?
and spoiler alert: this language spreading is not an accident. i learnt this when studying extremism and terrorism: they want to subtly introduce their ideologies to mainstream so it’s easier to slip into their more extreme views. the fact that meme + internet culture is dominated by extremist right-wing and incels was not shied away from or doubted for a second by modern scholars in those areas.
