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e.g. usages of 'shitpost' on the 4chan /jp/ board from 2008.

https://warosu.org/jp/?task=search2&search_text=shitpost&sea...

I'm sure it's trivial to find even older examples but this was just the first thing that sprang to mind.

2008 too on another archive https://archive.wakarimasen.moe/_/search/text/shitpost/order.... Disclaimer: this is a 4chan archive, open at your own risk. Both seems to start between the 20th and 30th February 2008. It could be an interesting work of internet history to try to find the earliest usage and its spread.

Here's an example of "shitposter" being used in early 2005. The posts won't load for me but the dates and titles are visible. I can personally recall earlier instances from other archvies dating all the way back to 2001, but I can't find those anymore.

https://www.usenetarchives.com/index.php?s=shitpost&t=0&p=1

It is indeed trivial to find older examples of irony.

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