Weird Twitter isn’t about “What’s the deal with …” observational humor Weird Twitter isn’t one-liners about politicians and celebrities Weird Twitter isn’t in-joke references of current trends. When these tweeters assault brands, mock the hip speechifying of their contemporaries, or take on the lazy smugness of Internet writing, they are at their funniest and most cathartic. To me, Weird Twitter is at its best when it is subverting – or trolling – the way we are supposed to behave on the Internet. It is impossible to define Weird Twitter just as it is impossible to define any artistic movement, and yes I do consider Weird Twitter an artistic movement. BuzzFeed already did it better than anyone else, so if you want to know the Weird Twitter origin story, read the brilliant oral history courtesy of John Herman and Katie Notopolous. It is not my intention to define Weird Twitter, comment on its impact on the culture, or interrogate its origins. Then finally somebody told Time about it, and we all got really bummed out because we knew that the word “millennial” would appear 40,000 times in whatever piece they ended up running on the topic, and now our Mom is going to ask about it next time she calls for iPhone tech support. As per usual with anything cool, sites like The Daily Dot set to answering this question first. What is Weird Twitter? This is a question that has been asked dozens of times across the Internet.
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