English

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Etymology

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From schizopost +‎ -er or schizo- +‎ poster.

Noun

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schizoposter (plural schizoposters)

  1. (Internet slang) Someone who schizoposts; someone creating memes making light of schizophrenia or is perhaps genuinely schizophrenic.
    • 2022 March 28, Correan Collar, “Why I Schizopost: What Schizoposting Is”, in thedayofthecollar[1]:
      One who is called a schizoposter may display signs of paranoid schizophrenia, through either word salad, which is a group of words or sentences that appear to make no sense, or just be jumbled words, or hypergraphia, which is the urge to write.
    • 2022 September 9, Sarah Roach, “Why Gen Z has totally different work expectations”, in Protocol[2], archived from the original on 20 November 2022:
      I've been told we're screen addicts, TikTok fanatics and "Schizoposters." But for all the time we spend scrolling through social media, the data backs up the fact that this generation values in-person interactions.
    • 2022 October 25, Sarah A. Myers, “Does "Schizoposting" Appropriate Schizophrenia?”, in Psychology Today[3]:
      Choosing to be illustrative of that illness indicates some sort of perverted preference for disorder whether aware or unaware by the user, where in the case of the true mentally ill patient, the patient will be seen trying their hardest to avoid these very same symptoms that schizoposters mimic.