1992, "The Night of the Iguana", in Nicholas Lafitte, Near Calvary: Selected Poems 1959-1970, page 41:
“Look at me look at me i’m not depressed i’m not depressed”.
Ingenious, this metalogic, metacrap.
1998, John Haiman, Talk Is Cheap: Sarcasm, Alienation, and the Evolution of Language, page 118:
In art, as in language, “cutting out the metacrap” means to get at the “core” meaning beneath the “superficial form” of a work; what it seems to be is different from what it means.
2011, Joyce Cho and Višnja Rogošic, "Burning the Rules, PAJ: Journal of Performance and Art, Volume 33, Number 2, May 2011:
Clearly the layers of pretense and self-awareness and metacrap are thick.
2013, Larry Lefkowitz, The Critic, The Assistant Critic, and Victoria, page 157:
In this vein, amusing to hear (the first time) was Lieberman’s recounting how, at an international conference on language, Jacques Lacan, the French psychoanalyst and philosopher, gave a presentation on “the linguistic nature of psychological symptomatology” (“the kind of highfalutin metacrap you like, Kunzman,” Lieberman later commented).
Noun: "(Internet, derogatory) low-quality or unreliable metadata"
2002, Ian Horrocks & James Hendler (eds.), The Semantic Web – ISWC 2002: First International Semantic Web Conference, Sardinia, Italy, June 2022: Proceedings, page 303:
Adding to this complexity is Doctorow’s [18] observations about “metacrap”, the foibles of human-generated metadata.
2004, Christian Crumlish, The Power of Many, page 246:
People who refer to the metacrap argument are generally advocating “letting the software sort it out” instead of asking people to explicitly tag everything before making any contribution.
2007, Gene SMith, Tagging: People-powered Metadata for the Social Web, page 184:
(This is the metacrap problem mentioned in Chapter 4.)
2008, Duncan Grey, Getting the Buggers to Find Out: Information Skills and Learning How to Learn, page 175:
More formally we can say that the metadata is fragile or inconsistent. More forcefully this has been described as 'metacrap'.
2009, Hongwei Zhu & Harris Wu, "Sloppy Tags and Metacrap?: Quality of User Contributed Tags in Collaborative Social Tagging Systems", Proceedings of the Fifteenth Americas Conference on Information Systems, San Francisco, California August 6th-9th 2009, page 1:
The contributors may have certain bias and personal agenda (e.g., to allure visitors to a resource) in entering tags not relevant to the resources at all, thus the tags may be a collection of “metacrap” (Doctorow 2001).
2012, Luke Stevens, The Truth About HTML5: For Web Designers, page 92:
Will mainstream adoption lead to attempts to spam search engines? (People will certainly try.) Will it all turn to “metacrap” [URL redacted]? We will see.
2017, Jane Greenberg, "Big Metadata, Smart Metadata, and Metadata Capital: Toward Greater Synergy Between Data Science and Metadata", Journal of Data and Information Science, Volume 2, Number 3, page 20:
There is also concept of “metacrap,” coined by Doctorow (2001), referring to the impossibility of “exhaustive, reliable metadata” due to “insurmountable obstacles,” and proclamations that automated methods will take over, obviating the need to investigate metadata (Dimitrova, 2004).