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pencilslop

pencilslop noun: art created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.

Noun

pencilslop (uncountable)

  1. (Internet, derogatory, humorous, neologism) Art created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.
    • mine has more soul thank your pencilslop2025 March 29, @Ill1i_n0st7xzr, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026
    • PROUD TO CREATE PENCILSLOP ✊😤2025 December 19, shave_your_eyebrows, “[OC] Slopcore”, in r/comics (Reddit post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026

Examples of pencilslop in a sentence

  • mid lecture currently so i had to use pencilslop #deltarune #undertale2026 January 13, @Pixel_Perfect69, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:
  • These people make pencilslop because they aren't up for the greuling task of making tuff AI art.2026 January 17, GPTMCT, “ts is so tuff”, in r/67club (Reddit post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:
  • More pencilslop for my people (ignore the failed Vriska drawing and all the text surrounding it I crashed out)2026 January 18, @Gigafly67, X (post), archived from the original on 19 Jan 2026:

Origin of pencilslop

From pencil + -slop, by analogy with AI slop. The earliest known use of the meme is in a tweet posted by @Ill1i_n0st7xzr on March 29, 2025 (see quotation below). The term was popularized in December 2025 on TikTok.

Questions about pencilslop

What does pencilslop mean?
Pencilslop means art created by hand with a pencil or coloured pencils, (usually satirically) considered to be inferior to AI art.
How do you use pencilslop in a sentence?
mid lecture currently so i had to use pencilslop #deltarune #undertale
What part of speech is pencilslop?
Pencilslop is a noun.

Words near pencilslop in the dictionary

  1. pencilneck
  2. pencilnecks
  3. pencils
  4. pencils in
  5. pencils out
  6. pencilslop
  7. pencilwood
  8. pencilwork
  9. pencioner
  10. pencioners
  11. Penclawdd

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pencilslop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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