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camp is sincerity where irony was expected
I like this answer
camp is when you go live in the woods in a tent even though you’re not homeless and you don’t have to
I wonder when we’ll see US state governments passing laws that require showing proof permanent residency in a fixed structure with a mailing address before allowing people to buy tents and other camping supplies.
Step away from the lathe right now
Hold on now! I’m gonna need to see your sources.
of course you’d bring blue tent scholarship into this, just gonna ignore all the yellow canvas tent studies aren’t we? typical
Camp is deliberately exaggerated bad taste for the sake of irony. Not to be confused with kitsch, which is full-sending tacky with complete sincerity, sometimes with the intent of being quirky. Rocky Horror is camp, Dogs Playing Poker is kitsch.
Camp is when things are ugly and I like them. If I don’t like them it’s not camp
examples! go!
not camp! i’m great at this!
Camp is when things are ugly and I like them. If I don’t like them it’s
not campkitschthat’s how i feel about camp.
Camp is when you sleep in a cabin with six other horny teen boys, led by a slightly older horny teen boy, and then go learn about Jesus three times a day. Also, about 20 yards away the exact same thing is happening for six plus one horny teen girls. And every other moment of every day is mixed groups.
My summers were very normal, thank you for asking! I am about 75% sure that the children in my home are my only children!
Doing aesthetics ironically on purpose. Camp celebrates the products of alienated labor for their whimsical aesthetics in the juxtaposition of commodities. Ready-made dadaism meets mass collectibles.
Hamilton is kitsch, John Waters is camp.
