schizopost

English

Etymology

From schizo- (“schizophrenia”) +‎ post.

Noun

schizopost (plural schizoposts)

1. (Internet slang) A meme or similar humorous material posted online which makes light of or plays the role of having schizophrenia, often by describing symptoms of the condition or by writing as if mentally unstable.
2. (Internet slang) A genuine posting that appears to exhibit schizophrenia.

Verb

schizopost (third-person singular simple present schizoposts, present participle schizoposting, simple past and past participle schizoposted)

1. (Internet slang) To create schizoposts.
   • 2022 July 7, Carolyn Orr Bueno (quoted), David Neiwert, “Motives of Highland Park terrorist hidden by ugly online subculture exploited by radical right”, in Daily Kos‎^[1]:

     I see fatalism and nihilism as the common ground there. But on its own, I don’t even know that schizoposting is tied to an ideology as much as it’s just defined by its incoherence.

   • 2022 October 25, Sarah A. Myers, “Does "Schizoposting" Appropriate Schizophrenia?”, in Psychology Today‎^[2]:

     Schizoposting may seem on the surface like a fun and harmless thing, but it is actually a sign of regression, that we may not really understand what it means to be psychotic or to "lose your mind", which in turn, further isolates the suffering patient from community resources and help.

   • 2022 October 28, Günseli Yalcinkaya, “How far-right views became the new edgy aesthetic”, in Dazed‎^[3]:

     Like schizoposting, which adopts an unfiltered approach to sharing information via unintelligible text walls, there's a hedonistic desire to push content to its very extremes – and express a wider discontent towards the global order.

Derived terms

• schizoposter