agitslop en · NOUN
Etymology
Blend of agitprop + -slop.
Meanings
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(attributive, informal, sometimes, uncountable) Political propaganda of low quality, typically disseminated through mass media.
Agitslop is easily defined — it is art made by social workers, not artists; content produced neither to inform, educate or entertain the viewer, but to gently marinade them in moral instruction. […] But the brilliance of agitslop lies in its emotionally manipulative scripts. By focusing on personal narratives — real or imagined — agitslop appeals to the emotional rather than rational part of the viewer’s brain and appeals directly to their sentimentality.
2025 May 1, Tom Jones, “The tyranny of agitslop”, in The Critic: