Lemme just put on the venom symbiote here:
Alright, here we go.
You see, shitposting isn't just the fun and joy or posting unrelated stuff or outlandish things for the sake of it. It requires a careful tightrope play between having perfect clarity towards a public consensus of the topic at hand whilst knowing absolutely fuck all about it. A shitpost must be able to perfectly present itself without a shred of betrayal to its identity. It is absolutely serious about its wit and joke. It shies not from any hint of irony; it tramples over them like a Willy's Jeep over corpses of children. It has to make sense whilst making no sense at all, relating to real world research and using none of it whatsoever. It has to stand on itself as a coherent piece made with effort while seemingly made on a whim. That is the essence of a shitpost.
A shitpost has to stand by itself without further explanation. Every subsequent response made by reactions to the shitpost has to build upon itself brick by brick, forming the SCU (Shitpost Cinematic Universe™ (all rights reserved)) that creates its OWN brand of rules and sensibilities.
As time goes on, the shitposter begins to grow their reputation. As a start-up autist they have to be able to create a distinctive presence within the community, and not be just some shmuck on the site. They can't just dive in headfirst with a full blown effortpost, they have to slowly weave their humour into their regular posts, establishing a genre of funnies™ to ease people into the eventual shitpost era of their careers and so that people wouldn't be overwhelmed by the funnies™ you present.
After that comes a dark age. What is that, you say? A dark age of shitposting is a brief period where people start to become "oh yeah, he's just like this" to other people. This is a prime sign that the fillet has been salted and oiled and ready to meet the frying pan. This is where you start to build your audience. Your paid hecklers who are able to engage with your shitposts and play off one another. Some can be extremely obvious, while others are such masters of detecting certain comedic and ironic undertones that they can play off several dozen levels of shitposting and at times, overwhelm the shitposter themselves.
As time goes on, a shitposter has to pack their bags and leave the brief spotlight. At this point, they've already long left their prime as a upstarting shitposter and have been recognized as such within the communities they waddle on. This is the age of the effortpost, where regular shitposting just can't cut it and the shitposter has to create an elaborate longpost. They have since then lost their limelight as a regular guest and search for a legendary status, one effortpost after another.
Does any of this apply to me? No.
You'd have to be a fucken chicken to.believe all this.
This is a semi- #serious thread.
