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is the correct historical narrative that shitposting grew out of weird twitter, or is there a clearer thru line from a different form of posting? maybe greentext? tumblr posts?
seeing tweets that use "shitpost" as we use it today as far back as 2009
@SuricrasiaOnline Shitposting is based on trolling, from USENET and email, starting somewhere back in the '70s.
@SuricrasiaOnline I've heard rumors that the word "shitposting" came from SA, but they used it to mean "making really bad posts in a thread to derail or tank it"
@BestGirlGrace @SuricrasiaOnline we weren't active on sa back in the day but from our limited reading of let's plays and occasionally reading other public threads this sounds familiar
the word itself is probably a 4chan thing, if I were to bet anything. but it's normalization may have been a weird twitter thing