Meanings
plural schizoposters
- InternetSomeone who schizoposts; someone creating memes making light of schizophrenia or who makes genuinely schizophrenic posts.
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 September 9, Sarah Roach, “Why Gen Z has totally different work expectations”, in Protocol, archived from the original on 20 Nov 20222 more examples
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 March 28, Correan Collar, “Why I Schizopost: What Schizoposting Is”, in thedayofthecollarChoosing 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.
2022 October 25, Sarah A. Myers, “Does "Schizoposting" Appropriate Schizophrenia?”, in Psychology Today
Origin
From schizopost + -er or schizo- + poster.
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