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Etymology

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From micro- +‎ genre.

Noun

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microgenre (plural microgenres)

  1. (art) A hyper-specific or niche genre.
    • 2007 August 29, Virginia Heffernan, “For MySpace Viewers, a Terra Incognita With No Cellphones or Internet”, in New York Times[1]:
      This looked incredibly cool, and borrowed visually from video games and from the YouTube microgenre of shopping-cart crashes.

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