Meanings
- InternetderogatoryhumorousneologismuncountableArt created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.
PROUD TO CREATE PENCILSLOP ✊😤
2025 December 19, shave_your_eyebrows, “[OC] Slopcore”, in r/comics (Reddit post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 20264 more examples
mine has more soul thank your pencilslop
2025 March 29, @Ill1i_n0st7xzr, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026mid lecture currently so i had to use pencilslop #deltarune #undertale
2026 January 13, @Pixel_Perfect69, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026These people make pencilslop because they aren't up for the greuling task of making tuff AI art. I lowkirkenuinely spent the first 67 years of my life studying to make ts and it pmo to see all these people taking shortcuts🥀.
2026 January 17, GPTMCT, “ts is so tuff”, in r/67club (Reddit post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026More pencilslop for my people (ignore the failed Vriska drawing and all the text surrounding it I crashed out)
2026 January 18, @Gigafly67, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026
Origin
From pencil + -slop, by analogy with AI slop. The earliest known use of the meme is in a tweet posted by @Ill1i_n0st7xzr on March 29, 2025 (see quotation below). The term was popularized in December 2025 on TikTok.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
pencilslop. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pencilslop
“pencilslop.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pencilslop. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pencilslop,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pencilslop.
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