Slop

What kind of content is slop?

Low-quality digital content

Slop is digital content that is low-quality, hastily made, or mass-produced and often lacks originality or effort. The term gained traction in the mid-2020s as creators, audiences, and social media users began calling out videos, memes, and posts that felt fake, generic, or "rushed for clicks." In 2025, Merriam-Webster and the American Dialect Society named "slop" as its "Word of the Year."

Some examples of slop include:

Unpolished reaction videos on YouTube
Elsagate content targeted at kids
Low-effort spam articles that repeat the same paragraphs because they were rushed out by content farms
AI-generated TikTok "fact" videos that confidently say wildly wrong things, paired with unrelated stock footage. People may also call this "AI slop" when criticizing generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) content that is inaccurate or closer to clutter than anything of lasting use.
Reposted memes that have been screenshotted so many times they're blurry, stretched, or barely readable

Example

did u watch that tiktok i sent u?

yea. total slop. i can't believe ppl fall for that

ikr?

Slop you'd find on social media

AI slop	AI-generated, low-quality content
Crud	Junk
POC	Piece of crap
LOC	Load of crap
Spam	Unhelpful and annoying content
Clanker	A robot
AI	Artificial intelligence
GenAI	Generative AI
LLM	Large Language Model
CGPT	ChatGPT
AIGC	Artificial intelligence generated content
Brain rot	Negative effects from excessive Internet content
Elsagate	Inappropriate content targeted at kids on YouTube
IKR	I know, right?

Slop

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Slop definition by Slang.net - The Slang Dictionary