What The Simpsons can teach you about the art of shitposting

A scene from a 1996 episode of The Simpsons recently spawned a fresh clutch of memes across the web, shedding light on a very specific – and, for the average web user, peculiar and dubiously-named – form of online fan activity: shitposting. Like other Internet memes, shitposting involves users remixing and remaking snippets of popular culture – in this case, the “steamed hams” skit between Superintendent Chalmers and Principal Skinner – to create an original take. One user created a version auto-tuned to the 1999 song “All Star” by Smashmouth – a tune with a memetic following of its own.… This story continues at The Next Web source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheNextWeb/~3/WJN4FqoHBuk/ #Headlines by: The Conversation

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