Etymology
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pic + spam
picspam (countable and uncountable, plural picspams)
- (Internet, informal, countable) A post on a blog featuring a collection of pictures, generally of the same subject or from the same source.
2010 April 25, cyn########, “Re: [ASLM] Life under the moss-covered rock”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated[1] (Usenet):I think it was lysachan's site that got me into the series -- her picspams are fun, (heavy on the Prentiss love).
2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 17:Days, weeks, even months are spent in creating vids, picspams, icons, original art, and sometimes novel-length works of fiction.
2014, Francesca Coppa, “Pop Culture, Fans, and Social Media”, in Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa M. Senft, editors, The Social Media Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:[…] television and movie fans posting fan fiction on LiveJournal, fans of celebrities creating picspams on Tumblr, […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:picspam.
- (Internet, informal, uncountable) Such blog posts collectively.
2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 67:Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something.
- 2009, Francesca Coppa, "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness", Cinema Journal, Volume 48, Number 4, Summer 2009, page 111:
- Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR.
2009 September 17, Kate XXXXXX, “Re: Part 3!”, in alt.sewing[2] (Usenet):Long, and full of picspam... You have been warned!
