My post that was unfairly removed was intentionally provocative (Oxford), and ironically, trollishly poor quality (Wikipedia), just as the example shitposts provided are.
provocative ≠ inflammatory
Provocative : causing annoyance, anger, or another strong reaction, especially deliberately.
Inflammatory : deliberately arousing or intended to arouse angry or violent feelings.
(Oxford)
Provocative in the context of shitpost essentially means deliberately causing a strong reaction usually via exaggeration for comedic effect.
While Inflammatory just means to deliberately insight violence.
Another shitpost for example :
This meets : intentionally provocative (Oxford), and ironically, trollishly poor quality and absurd (Wikipedia).
![bruh.png [context image in body]](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a13f2d2a-ca0e-475c-97f5-b25f537e7c41.jpeg){kind=link}
That’s not shitposting, that’s trolling. Shitposting is stupid/funny, not inflammatory.
That’s not a shitpost, that’s a basic meme that took effort to make and come up with.
^Actual shitpost, AI generated images with text slapped on it. Another example is the common “all Linux users are femboys” memes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shitposting
My post that was unfairly removed was intentionally provocative (Oxford), and ironically, trollishly poor quality (Wikipedia), just as the example shitposts provided are.
provocative ≠ inflammatory
(Oxford)
Provocative in the context of shitpost essentially means deliberately causing a strong reaction usually via exaggeration for comedic effect.
While Inflammatory just means to deliberately insight violence.
Another shitpost for example :
This meets : intentionally provocative (Oxford), and ironically, trollishly poor quality and absurd (Wikipedia).
Bruh
Bruh :
https://lemmy.cafe/post/5927986 (trollishly poor quality, low effort, confusing out of context, off-topic)
https://lemmy.world/post/17037401 (trollishly poor quality, absurd, deliberately provocative; Engagement, Amusement, and Relatability)
https://lemmy.world/post/17025932 (trollishly poor quality, low effort, absurd, off-topic, deliberately provocative; Amusement, Dismissal, Mockery)
https://feddit.it/post/8982157 (trollishly poor quality, low effort, absurd, deliberately provocative; Amusement, exaggeration)
https://lemmy.world/post/17025152 (trollishly poor quality, low effort, absurd, deliberately provocative; Amusement, Dismissal, Mockery, exaggeration)
https://lemmy.cafe/post/5945676 (trollishly poor quality, low effort, absurd, off-topic, deliberately provocative; Amusement, Dismissal, Mockery, exaggeration)
https://lemmy.world/post/16276064 (poor quality, low effort, absurd, off-topic, provocative; Amusement, Dismissal, Mockery)
This is looping back around to being both a troll AND shitpost