Jessica Hullman: "Slop is not merely a genre of media, it is an attitude of production, a cynical operating posture that is offensive not just on a surface level of insulting the consumer’s intelligence, though there is that. It is an ethos of resigned instrumentality that disgusts us with its intentional satisficing and lack of effort the way kitsch disgusted some art critics, a refusal of responsibility to authenticity, situatedness, and the risks associated with individualistic expression. A practical nihilism that threatens to engulf our own more sparse yet genuine attempts at production. From this perspective, the act of denial makes slop more like a spiritual threat than a type of content."