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An experimental, anti-algorithm video genre that splices unrelated viral clips, ambient music, and on-screen text into a melancholic, often dissociative montage commenting on internet overstimulation itself.
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Know Your Meme · original source ↗
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The Daily Trend · original source ↗
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"He set grainy webcam clips to a sad piano loop and somehow made it feel like a documentary about being twenty-three. Corecore."
LORE & ORIGIN
Emerged on TikTok in late 2022 as a self-aware backlash to the platform's hyper-curated 'core' aesthetic trend (cottagecore, gymcore, etc.), turning the format itself into a meta-genre about burnout, algorithmic fatigue, and modern alienation.
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