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schizopost en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From schizo- (“schizophrenia”) + post.

Meanings

1. (Internet) A genuine posting that appears to exhibit schizophrenia.
2. (Internet) A meme or similar humorous material posted online which makes light of or plays the role of having schizophrenia, often by describing symptoms of the condition or by writing as if mentally unstable.

Forms

schizopost en · VERB

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From schizo- (“schizophrenia”) + post.

Meanings

1. (Internet, intransitive) To create schizoposts.
   • Schizoposting may seem on the surface like a fun and harmless thing, but it is actually a sign of regression, that we may not really understand what it means to be psychotic or to "lose your mind", which in turn, further isolates the suffering patient from community resources and help. 2022 October 25, Sarah A. Myers, “Does "Schizoposting" Appropriate Schizophrenia?”, in Psychology Today:
   • Like schizoposting, which adopts an unfiltered approach to sharing information via unintelligible text walls, there's a hedonistic desire to push content to its very extremes – and express a wider discontent towards the global order. 2022 October 28, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “How far-right views became the new edgy aesthetic”, in Dazed:
   • I see fatalism and nihilism as the common ground there. But on its own, I don’t even know that schizoposting is tied to an ideology as much as it’s just defined by its incoherence. 2022 July 7, Carolyn Orr Bueno (quoted), David Neiwert, “Motives of Highland Park terrorist hidden by ugly online subculture exploited by radical right”, in Daily Kos:

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schizoposter