It's obvious there's so much "slop" everywhere on the internet now, but I've been curious: since humanity will always have bad actors no matter the time period, what would "slop" look like in the past? Like undeniably low effort garbage designed with quantity over quality in mind? Surely there's gotta be stuff like that from at least ancient Egypt.Earliest I can think of for ancient "slop" is the trash that came with 80s and 70s video games, but it's gotta be deeper than that.
>>18425199I don't think humanity had the production capacity necessary to produce what we would consider slop up until the industrial revolution. Everything that was made even the most mundane stuff needed skilled workers.
You can argue that Roman Imperial coinage was "slop" since coins were probably the first mass-produced products, and a lot of the later coins feature very similar looking heads with less and less variance
>>18425199>What does "slop" in the past look like?With Ancient Egypt? Anything pertaining to Isis.Other places, stuff like Hellenism.
>>18425199If Animated Fox series are any indication, they put the slop on the cheap ceramics made for the masses.
>>18425199Idk if ancient egypt. But Penny Dreadfuls are basically equivalent to what we would now call slop.
Any writings that featured things like Ishtar is basically the equivalent of isekai or fanfiction slop.
>>18425213I think by the 3rd century crises they were slop-tier in value. By the fall of the empire they were slop tier in artistic value. I don't hate late roman empire art but the coin stampers basically gave up by that point and we're just stamping the same portrait with different names
>>18425199In Imperial-Era China, prose written in Baihua (Vernacular Chinese) was considered "slop." Since Nobles & the Scholar-Bureaucrat gentry considered poetry peppered with philosophical & historical allusions and metaphors written as refined literature while novels, short stories, written in prose as lowbrow unsophisticated drivel.When printing was invented in the Song Dynasty & increased literacy rates, Baihua novels & booklets exploded like wildfire. The Chinese even experienced genre-fiction phenomena that rivalled modern capeshit & fantasoy, where pop-fiction writers wrote>Wuxia (Martial Heroes)- stories about warriors super-skilled in martial arts fighting in a fantasy-universe (Jianghu) or in past wars & eras in Chinese history.>Xianxia (Magical Heroes)- about magic-using heroes (also set in Jianghu).>Shenmo (Gods & Demons)- tales involving the deities & mythological entities like demons, ghosts, and spirits (often mixed with Xianxia). >Gong'an (Case Novels)- Detective Fiction, but unlike Western Detective genre, involves not only cunning investigation but also random Wuxia/Xianxia bullshit (like the Detective assisted by superhuman martial artists, or using magic in investigations like summoning the spirit of the deceased and pointing out who murdered them).Pop-lit genres were heavily condemned and frowned upon by the Confucian Scholar-Bureaucrat gentry. They were considered brainrot escapism that corrupted the youth, promoted adventurism & fantasizing, spread superstitious beliefs, or distorted morals. Scholars & Monks often held public speeches against them and the Imperial Censors sometimes banned themBy the Ming Dynasty though, the literati eventually folded over pop-lit and even began using them to promote Confucian/Taoist/Buddhist Thought, which is how we got "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," "Water Margin" (Wuxia novels at heart) & Journey to the West (Shenmo).
>>18425199Frankly, some Greek myths feel like melodrama-slop written today, but more extreme (rapes, incest, bestiality etc.)
>>18425495I mean in fairness to the Gong'an novels the authors likely believed all of that shit was real and actually happened. Iirc there are still martial artists in China who claim to have magical abilities.And if I am not mistaken high-class Chinese had their own brand of superstition and bizarre habits, though.
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>>18425425Hellenic theater after Alexander's time I think became wholly sloppified. When a popular play was made countless copycats emerged. Pure slop.
>>18425199>uses the word "slop">first thing that came to its mind are videogamesDiagnosis: Subhuman, /v/ermin.Verdict: Useless Eater. Genetic Excrement.Proposed action: Verify if the creature is capable of menial or physical labour, then strip it of its human rights and put it to work.If deemed unfit for compulsory labour/military service, then it must be expunged. Alongside its entire family.Addendum: Investigate the creature's friends and romantic interests to verify if they are fit for human rights.
This is the end goal of Capitalism. This is the end goal of your tard existence sitting in your college dorm all day posting about black cock, lend lease, and white achievements of creating the Internet to post black cock. All of you guys are tards and have six months left to live. Iran hit the helium and all the electronics will die and all you will die. The charger credit is expiring and all the renewables will fail in two months and all of you will die.
>>18425199The nineteenth century produced a vast amount of slop, charles dickens practically invented slop posting
>>18425199Abrahamic faiths being cheap derivatives, knock offs and outright revenge fantasies based off of earlier religions. The historic christian behaved exactly like a woke hollyweird executive and the rioter defacing historic art statues in the public.
>>18425465So, kino?
>>18425199you want ancient slop? look at the fat girl statuescheck this out for some new world indiginous slophttps://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-other-artifacts/moche-pottery-images-0017314Romans had dicks plastered all over the place
the apocryphal books like enoch are just jewish fanfiction. the quran too
