challenge discursive spaces on their own. I

first encountered both images in Figure 2

while scrolling through Twitter. Placed in

conversation with the usual content I see on

that website (people voicing their opinions,

posting about recent accomplishments,

sharing other pieces of media they

appreciated, etc.), both shitposts presented

here forced me to do a double take. After a **quick glance at both memes, I could have **sworn I missed something or that I read them **wrong, trying to understand what reference I **had overlooked in subsequent readings. This

reaction stems from the subtle challenge that

shitposts present to social media discourses,

one that relies on the interpersonal

connections that form within what

Zappavigna (2012) has defined as ambient

affiliation. I tried to understand what the

author was communicating to me and other […]

(emphasis mine lol)

Figure 2. Two examples of shitposts

Source: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03626784.2023.2272988#d1e205

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