pencilslop en · NOUN
Etymology
From pencil + -slop, by analogy with AI slop. The earliest known use of the meme is in a tweet posted by @Ill1i_n0st7xzr on March 29, 2025 (see quotation below). The term was popularized in December 2025 on TikTok.
Meanings
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(Internet, derogatory, humorous, neologism, uncountable) Art created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.
These people make pencilslop because they aren't up for the greuling task of making tuff AI art. I lowkirkenuinely spent the first 67 years of my life studying to make ts and it pmo to see all these people taking shortcuts🥀.
2026 January 17, GPTMCT, “ts is so tuff”, in r/67club (Reddit post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:mine has more soul thank your pencilslop
2025 March 29, @Ill1i_n0st7xzr, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:mid lecture currently so i had to use pencilslop #deltarune #undertale
2026 January 13, @Pixel_Perfect69, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:More pencilslop for my people (ignore the failed Vriska drawing and all the text surrounding it I crashed out)
2026 January 18, @Gigafly67, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:PROUD TO CREATE PENCILSLOP ✊😤
2025 December 19, shave_your_eyebrows, “[OC] Slopcore”, in r/comics (Reddit post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026: