agitslop

English

Etymology

Blend of agitprop +‎ slop.

Noun

agitslop (uncountable)

  1. (uncountable, informal, sometimes attributive) Political propaganda of low quality, typically disseminated through mass media.
    • 2025 May 1, Tom Jones, “The tyranny of agitslop”, in The Critic‎[1]:
      Agitslop is easily defined — it is art made by social workers, not artists; content produced neither to inform, educate or entertain the viewer, but to gently marinade them in moral instruction. […] But the brilliance of agitslop lies in its emotionally manipulative scripts. By focusing on personal narratives — real or imagined — agitslop appeals to the emotional rather than rational part of the viewer’s brain and appeals directly to their sentimentality.
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