Weird Twitter is a loose genre of Internet humour dedicated to publication of humorous material on the social network X (formerly Twitter) that is disorganised 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] Some sections of Weird Twitter may be dedicated to a certain subculture or worldview, such as Traditionalist Catholicism.[13] A notable writer on Weird Twitter is dril.
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^Sun, Scott. "An Odd, Uplifting 'Alien': Meet The Man Behind A 'Weird Twitter' Star". All Tech Considered. NPR. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
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(November 5, 2019). "'Truthpoint' and The Mainstream Media's Discovery of 'WeirdTwitter'". The Harvard Crimson. Archived from the original on September 13,...
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