Bring Back Shitposting!
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We are all guilty of doomscrolling to cure our boredom. Sometimes, we even stalk our favorite celebrity pages to get some entertainment out of it. But instead of curing boredom, you notice that everyone's accounts are starting to look the same. You're expecting to see posts of them with their friends, at their favorite restaurants, and of the artists they've been listening to lately… Only to find bland promotional material for their skincare, beauty, or clothing line, they've decided to create. And if they're movie stars, they're probably only posting trailers for their upcoming films and red carpet looks to match. Your favorite influencers are even posting ad after ad after ad.
After failing to find any interesting posts, you decide to stalk the people you know in real life. This includes your friends, your family, and that random mutual you've been following since you were fourteen.
Their profiles also look like magazine covers rather than updates on what they've been up to. Mastering the perfect lighting and angles has become a requirement to post on Instagram.
Where have the posts gone that actually show people's personalities? Why does everyone feel the need to either look perfect or promote something?
We've lost our roots. We've lost the art of shitposting.
If you didn't already grasp the meaning from the name, shitposting basically means posting whatever you're feeling at the moment. Low-exposure photos, random memes, pictures of you making stupid faces are just a few examples of the lost art. There isn't a hidden strategy to gain followers or show off brand deals, it’s just people showing their real, relatable lives.
Shitposting was common when social media first emerged. For the first time, users could share bits of their daily lives, post about their interests, and find niche communities they belong to. That was the original purpose of these platforms.
MySpace, for example, was a platform where people had fun shitposting. It let users showcase the music they loved, post extremely low-quality photos of themselves, customize their profiles with colors, and meet people who actually shared their interests.
Where did that energy go?
Scrolling on Instagram nowadays, I couldn't even tell you someone's favorite color, let alone what kind of music they listen to or what their sense of humor is like. Everything feels too curated and polished to perfection.
And I'm not the only one noticing this shift.
People around the world are participating in a trend that treats 2026 as if it were 2016. They're not only dressing like it's ten years ago, but posting like it too. Low-quality pictures, memes on their stories, Boomerangs (Do we even remember how fun Boomerangs were?), random pictures of what they ate on a Tuesday night…
People are rebelling against the new form of perfection that social media has created.
So why is shitposting important enough to bring back?
Because the relatability keeps us connected, imagine how exciting it'd be to comment on each other's interests and find out that someone has the same favorite movie as you. We're all tired of perfection. We miss the messy and chaotic posts.
It's definitely way more fun to stalk when I'm bored.
Strike out,
Sol Moyano
Boca Raton
Sol Moyano is a content writer for Strike Magazine Boca. When she’s not busy writing, she’s ignoring all of her responsibilities in favor of reading fiction novels. She updates her Goodreads and Letterboxd way more often than her LinkedIn. You can reach her at solmoyano05@hotmail.com or her instagram: @solmoyanooo.
