Retroslop
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Retroslop, also known as "nostalgiabait" is a subgenre of troonslop which includes pieces of media that pretends to be created in a certain past decade, (usually ranging from the 90s-2000s on indie videogames, although some examples coming from Roblox, Minecraft and YouTube go up to the 2010s) despite being made in Year.now().getValue() and having NONE of the substance, usually being very inaccurate, and in the worst cases, a bastardized representation of the decade it attempts to portray, because people who make and consume it only care about the artistic value of le aesthetics and would most likely find the original media boring or in some cases "a h*ckin big*ted product of it's time".
The term gained popularity on the platform Roblox, due to several games being hosted on there gaining the label of "retroslop". It is often criticized by the fact that it's usually a lazy form of media development, as creators usually just make shitty low poly models/textures and then subsequently slap the label of "retro" onto their "art". Its mostly enjoyed by autistic trannies who weren't even born around the time this "aesthetic" was originally made, commonly late millennial manchildren who got bullied for disliking le modern thing or their early Gen Alpha grooming victims who are suffering the same, hence why the term is so associated with toddlerslop media such as Roblox or TikTok trends.
Protip: Anything that needs to be described as "retro" isn't retro in the first place.
Examples of retroslop
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- 4cuck
- Analog Horror
- Digital Horror (same but in zoomer and millennial nostalgiabait formats)
- Animation "memes" inspired by 2000's 4cuck/ or 2010's JewTube
- Angry Goy
- Any 2000's styled tranime
- Anything with low-poly/"PlayStation 1"/"PSX" 3D graphics
- ULTRAKILL
- Mouthwashing
- Technically everything with 3D graphics and a tranny fanbase
- Most games on itch.io
- Lethal Company
- Domo-kun
- Frutiger Aero
- Anything made by Gigglegunks
- MySpace revivals
- Modern creepypasta content
- Minecraft/Garry's Mod ARGs
- Low-quality Loquendo videos
- Creepypasta re-takes
- Indie games inspired by Nintendo
- Nyan Cat
- Neopets
- Roblox front page games (Even doe every era of roblox was hot garbage for different reasons)
- Forsaken
- Regretevator
- Jim's Computer (Likely first retroslop 'blox game)
- Retro-style Operating Systems
- Slackware and similar SNCA Loonix distributions
- HaikuOS, a modern clone of some DNB 90s OS that no one cares about
- AROS
- Scenecore
Examples of retrogems/retrokinos
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- Hotline Miami
- TempleOS
- Windows 96
Pixel art
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Pixel art is an overused art style within the indieslop genre. Indie devs excuse using pixel art as "Just an art style" and its "part of the aesthetic". In reality, its because making pixel art is a lot easier than being a real artist 99% of the time. Whenever someone counters with that argument, just say that "any other art style would look better than pixel art.". Wplace for example is incredible pixelslop for cordniggertroonsbrimstone to use bots to make 'p doctors
Having less pixels = Less content and less originality
Having less colors = Less creative freedom
Having extremely sharp edges is just ugly.
Unless you have extreme creative ability and effort, you art will not be unique if you use pixel art. 99% of consumers who look at pixel art will just say "oh hey that's from those old arcade games". No one will ever remember your artstyle because you can probably count on your fingers the amount of video game franchises that have a unique art style with pixel art. Even then, the effort needed to stand out is so high, you would be better off using an entirely different art style.
One of the main reasons for using pixel art was because it was nostalgic. However now with every indie game being made in pixel art its no longer the case and the Nostalgia argument does not hold anymore.
The real reason is that Indie devs are dopamine junkies who can only develop games by pumping lots of rushed games out, each in a month's or even week's time, for game jams. The only way to feasibly work in this timescale while not having mastered any medium of analog or digital art is by committing to using pixelshit. Then they make propaganda in their little gamedev circles about how pixel art is "homegrown" and "empowering" and "raw" and feed it to minors who feel obligated to ~be a good person~ like all dumb little kids do but instead of it being just fun kid shit they're getting used by Indie devs who are invariably pedophiles, except for the people who made the indie games I like because those are good and actually they aren't indie they're just low-budget.
Its worth noting that although some games can have a ugly pixel art style, the game can still be redeemed if it has good game-play like Hotline Miami.
PSX style
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Psx is also like pixel art and that its incredibly easy to make, looks worse than using an actual art-style, and requires no talent. 100% of people who like PSX graphics have never even lived through the ps1 era. The whole nostalgia element also does not apply to psx graphics because of its overuse in indie games.
It's just an extremely ugly art style that looks like shit.
It is also some of the most derivative shit in the industry since they always try to rip-off the Mega man Legends's art style (which is ironic considering that the main artist for that game is well known for being a massive jartycuck-tier pedo).
It's only good if you want your game to be optimized instead of having characters with 48 billion polygons like Garden of Banban, but even then, 99% of the troons ruin that by pumping their EBIN PS1 LOST MEDIA GEMMERINOS with a shit ton of GPU-intensive VHS/CRT shaders.
