picspam

English

Etymology

From pic +‎ spam.

Noun

picspam (countable and uncountable, plural picspams)

(Internet, informal, countable) A post on a blog featuring a collection of pictures, generally of the same subject or from the same source.
- 2010 April 25, cyn########, “Re: [ASLM] Life under the moss-covered rock”, in alt.shoe.lesbians.moderated‎^[1] (Usenet):
  I think it was lysachan's site that got me into the series -- her picspams are fun, (heavy on the Prentiss love).
- 2013, Katherine Larsen, Lynn S. Zubernis, Fangasm: Supernatural Fangirls, University of Iowa Press, →ISBN, page 17:
  Days, weeks, even months are spent in creating vids, picspams, icons, original art, and sometimes novel-length works of fiction.
- 2014, Francesca Coppa, “Pop Culture, Fans, and Social Media”, in Jeremy Hunsinger, Theresa M. Senft, editors, The Social Media Handbook, Routledge, →ISBN, page 78:
  […] television and movie fans posting fan fiction on LiveJournal, fans of celebrities creating picspams on Tumblr, […]
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:picspam.
(Internet, informal, uncountable) Such blog posts collectively.
- 2008, Susie Day, serafina67 *urgently requires life*, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 67:
  Arg. Stupid life. Camera phone, though, woo. Prepare for mucho picspam of, I dunno, my bedroom or my feet or something.
- 2009, Francesca Coppa, "A Fannish Taxonomy of Hotness", Cinema Journal, Volume 48, Number 4, Summer 2009, page 111:
  Computers make creating and sharing picspam easy, but the power to pause, to stop time, and to frame one’s own still shots came with the rise of the VCR.
- 2009 September 17, Kate XXXXXX, “Re: Part 3!”, in alt.sewing‎^[2] (Usenet):
  Long, and full of picspam... You have been warned!