"Slop, Sludge, Brainrot, or Slop Content refers to , low quality content (eg. Games, videos, clips) that is clearly made to hop and market off of new trends, and usually involves the mish-mashing of trends together. If it's video content, it's usually brainless and seems to be almost AI generated because of how ) it can be. Games classified as slop content are usually marketed towards little kids with highly saturated colors, microtransactions, and notable characters from other popular games."
Aka Cool-hunting in a new form. It's a new tragedy in the making with selfie sticks around the campsite.
Since people are disposed by the money-making of influencer, they're switching it up with creator, or maker. For them.
Why even antagonise a system that's ontologically essential to business models? Until the abolishment of capital, that is.
Same with distancing oneself with brand and direct-response, trying to make it paradoxical when it shouldn't be. Attempting to grow new heads in the marketing machine that funds the production costs of prosumers wit, we are stuck fishing for attention that's integral. Stuck in the feed-back loop of post-commidifed end-result, baiting us once again.
Some have called this term the slop-mines. To gather impressions with the tailing pre-established popularity. Well, para-social relationships, you say between passive and active users.
Is that streamer using my attention as hollow leverage? Well, that's another thing to ponder about.
It helps satisfy to be a ruthless in behalf of one's own time/attention. That does not make these influencers evil, merely dedicated to their jobs within this postmodern connection economy.
Let's slop up the content, brain-rot-meta!