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>Usage of the term has grown steadily since it emerged around 2015 […] This is all ancient Twitter history. There was no such thing as shitposting back then.

Sorry, no. Shitposting wasn’t “invented” in 2015 and it certainly didn’t emerge from the bowels of Twitter. Little difficult to take this blogpost seriously.

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e.g. usages of 'shitpost' on the 4chan /jp/ board from 2008.

https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&search_text=shitpost&sea...

I'm sure it's trivial to find even older examples but this was just the first thing that sprang to mind.

2008 too on another archive https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/_/search/text/shitpost/order.... Disclaimer: this is a 4chan archive, open at your own risk. Both seems to start between the 20th and 30th February 2008. It could be an interesting work of internet history to try to find the earliest usage and its spread.

Here's an example of "shitposter" being used in early 2005. The posts won't load for me but the dates and titles are visible. I can personally recall earlier instances from other archvies dating all the way back to 2001, but I can't find those anymore.

https://www.usenetarchives.com/index.php?s=shitpost&t=0&p=1

It is indeed trivial to find older examples of irony.

Yeah the phrase was common on forums in the 2000s. Shitposting was like circle jerking today, adding nothing to the discussion but just “bullshitting.” I thought that’s where the term originated

I have vivid memory of a forum thread named something about "shitposting" in 2009, and I know it didn't feel like a novel concept at the time.

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