Social:Weird Twitter
Weird Twitter is a loose genre of Internet humour dedicated to publication of humorous material on the social networking service X (formerly Twitter) that is often considered disorganized and hard to explain.[1][2][3]
Related to anti-humour and created primarily by Twitter users who are not professional humourists, Weird Twitter-style jokes may be presented as disorganised thoughts, rather than in a conventional joke format or punctuated sentence structure.[4][5][6][7] The genre is based around the restriction of Twitter's 140-character message length, requiring jokes to be quite short.[8] The genre may also include repurposing of overlooked material on the internet, such as parodying posts made by spambots or deliberately amateurish images created in Paint.[9][10] The New York Times has described the genre as "inane" and intended "to subtly mock the site's corporate and mainstream users."[11][12] A notable writer on Weird Twitter is dril.[13]
See also
- Weird SoundCloud
- Weird Facebook
- Alt TikTok
- YouTube Poop
- Frogtwitter
References
- ↑ Herrman, John; Notopoulos, Katie. "Weird Twitter: The Oral History". http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/weird-twitter-the-oral-history#.nyaOebvNp. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Raymer, Miles. "Weird Twitter Leaves Irony Behind on Instagram". Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/weird-twitter-leaves-irony-behind-on-instagram/.
- ↑ Dewey, Caitlin. "Who is @Darth and why is this person always in my Twitter feed?". https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2013/12/05/who-is-darth-and-why-is-this-person-always-in-my-twitter-feed/. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Douglas, Nick. ""Weird Twitter" explained". http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/weird-twitter-explained-map/. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Knoblauch, Max. "The 21 Weirdest Twitter Accounts". http://mashable.com/2013/10/24/weird-twitter-accounts/#AyGLmU0grkqy. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ Losse, Kate. "Weird Corporate Twitter". http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/weird-corporate-twitter/. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Flynn, John. "The Normal Dudes Of 'Weird Twitter'". http://activate.metroactive.com/2015/05/the-normal-dudes-of-weird-twitter/. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Gallagher, Brenden. "A Survey of The Best and Weirdest of Weird Twitter". http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/07/a-survey-of-the-best-and-weirdest-of-weird-twitter/. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ↑ Sun, Scott. "An Odd, Uplifting 'Alien': Meet The Man Behind A 'Weird Twitter' Star". NPR. http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2015/12/19/459387407/an-odd-uplifting-alien-meet-the-man-behind-a-weird-twitter-star. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
- ↑ Usher, Tom. "What It's Really Like to Be a Popular 'Weird Twitter' Personality". https://www.vice.com/en/article/joke-twitter-celebrities-endhoos-jonnysun-dubstep4dads-keetpotato-ruinedpicnic/.
- ↑ Bromwich, Jonah. "Crowd-Funding Gets Wacky". http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/style/crowd-funding-on-kickstarter-gets-wacky.html?_r=0. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Bridle, James. "Meet the 'alt lit' writers giving literature a boost". http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/29/meet-alt-lit-writers-giving-literature-boost. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ↑ Marshall, Colin (2022-06-17). "The Cracked Wisdom of Dril" (in en-US). The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/rabbit-holes/the-cracked-wisdom-of-dril.
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