“Internet Ugly is nearly the opposite, an imposition of messy humanity upon an online world of smooth gradients, blemish-correcting Photoshop, and AutoCorrect. It exploits tools meant to smooth and beautify, using them to muss and distort. It’s much closer to ‘trollpunk’, defined by internet-culture analyst Adrian Chen (2013) as a ‘movement focused on the drama that occurs when you fuck shit up on the internet’, but it’s found in plenty of non-trolling culture. And it creates its own standard of beauty counter to, but not exactly reversing, the mainstream values of symmetry and purity. Even when cleverly imitated by those with skill, it expresses an authenticity. Rather than a genre, it’s a cultural dialect, used not just to frame certain propositional content but to communicate things about its user, and as such it has users who can code-switch but are distinct from users who cannot naturally speak the dialect (Wallace, 2001).” (Douglas, 2014 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470412914544516)