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picspam en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɪkˌspæm/

Etymology

From pic + spam.

Meanings

1. (Internet, countable, informal) A post on a blog featuring a collection of pictures, generally of the same subject or from the same source.
   • I think it was lysachan's site that got me into the series -- her picspams are fun, (heavy on the Prentiss love). 2010 April 25, cyn########, “Re: [ASLM] Life under the moss-covered rock”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated (Usenet):
   • […] television and movie fans posting fan fiction on LiveJournal, fans of celebrities creating picspams on Tumblr, […] 2014, Francesca Coppa, “Pop Culture, Fans, and Social Media”, in Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa M. Senft, editors, The Social Media Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:
   • Days, weeks, even months are spent in creating vids, picspams, icons, original art, and sometimes novel-length works of fiction. 2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 17:
2. (Internet, informal, uncountable) Such blog posts collectively.
   • Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something. 2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 67:
   • Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR. 2009, Francesca Coppa, "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness", Cinema Journal, Volume 48, Number 4, Summer 2009, page 111
   • Long, and full of picspam... You have been warned! 2009 September 17, Kate XXXXXX, “Re: Part 3!”, in alt.sewing (Usenet):

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