The Internet Has an AI Slop problem. I Have a Trophy.
Celebrating the best of the worst!
The Internet Has a Slop Problem. I Have a Trophy.
Merriam-Webster named “slop” its word of the year for 2025.
That is the dictionary telling you something the platforms will not. The content flooding your feed is not a glitch. It is not a phase. It is a system. It has supply chains. It has economics. It has specific techniques designed to make you feel something before your brain catches up to the fact that what you are looking at was generated in four seconds by a server farm in a country you will never visit.
And nobody is giving it an award.
Until now.
My name is Stevan W. Pierce Jr….some people call me The Slopfather!
I been in technology for over 27 years. Fifteen of those years were in cybersecurity with a sociology and counseling degree which has helped me study how people exploit the gap between what something looks like and what it actually is. Phishing campaigns look like your bank. Malware looks like a software update. AI slop looks like a video your cousin filmed at the park.
Same playbook. New tools.
What I kept noticing, as the feeds filled up with impossible hands and suspiciously emotional veterans and fish watching a crucified shrimp in quiet contemplation, was that the people who needed to understand this the most were having zero fun learning about it. The serious tools were built for enterprise. The explainers were written for people who already knew what they were looking for. The coverage was thorough and mostly unreadable.
Nobody was making it funny. Nobody was making it a game. Nobody was handing out trophies.
So I did.
What Is The Sloppies?
The Sloppies is a monthly awards platform for the worst AI-generated content on the internet. Think the Razzies, except the honorees are not bad movies. They are images of Jesus rendered as crustaceans, LinkedIn posts written by a robot impersonating someone’s inspirational aunt, and military jets that cannot decide which aircraft model they want to be for more than eight consecutive seconds.
We run on a 31-day cycle, depending on the month. The first three weeks are open nominations. Anyone can submit. You find slop in your feed, you send it to us, and we evaluate it against our categories. The fourth week is community voting. The final days are the ceremony.
We just finished Month One. February 2026. The first-ever Sloppies awards have been given. https://www.thesloppies.com/winners
History was made. Poorly, and with too many fingers.
The Categories
We have ten of them. Each one targets a specific failure mode.
Finger Crimes is exactly what it sounds like. AI has been counting to five incorrectly since 2022. It has not improved. The nominees in this category represent the full spectrum of manual mathematics: the seven-fingered handshake, the fist with opinions, the hand that gestures confidently in a direction no human hand has pointed.
LinkedIn Slop is a category unto itself because LinkedIn is a biome. Somewhere above 50 percent of long-form posts on the platform are now AI-generated. The nominees here are the ones that achieved perfection: motivational quotes attributed to no one, professional headshots where the background makes architectural decisions mid-render, carousel posts that begin with “I have a confession” and end with a call to follow for more content.
Shrimp Jesus is our legacy category. It is named after the image that started this whole cultural conversation: an AI-generated Jesus Christ rendered with the body of a shrimp, distributed across Facebook with the caption “Type AMEN if you believe.” That image collected hundreds of thousands of interactions. It spawned imitators. It became a genre. The Shrimp Jesus Memorial Award honors the finest work in AI-generated religious engagement bait. There is a lot of competition.
Physics Doesn’t Work That Way is for content that treats the laws of thermodynamics as a polite suggestion. Smoke that grows from “small outlet fire” to “we are all going to die” in five seconds. Missiles that travel in directions unrelated to the aircraft that fired them. Buildings that cast shadows at angles no sun has ever occupied.
Alphabet Soup covers AI text rendering. AI can generate a convincing street sign in any font you want, as long as you do not need the letters on that sign to form words. The nominees in this category are monuments to the gap between looking like language and being language.
We also have Uncanny Valley, Historical Crimes, Too Many Teeth, Fakefluencer Slop, AI Slop Art, and a category for corporate AI content deployed with full boardroom approval and zero self-awareness.
Every month, one piece of content from each category receives a Sloppy. The community votes. The Slopfather presides.
What Is Coming
Month Two is already underway. March nominations are open now. The bar has been raised by the February winners, and the February winners set a high bar.
Later this spring, the first Sloppies Trading Cards arrive. The award winners become collectible cards. The Shrimp Jesus gets a card. The seven-fingered handshake gets a card. The LinkedIn motivational post gets a card. I am genuinely enthusiastic about this in a way that my security colleagues find concerning.
Beyond that: more monthly cycles, more categories as new slop genres emerge, and a community of people who have learned to slow down and look twice before hitting share. The educational content and the entertainment are not separate tracks. They are the same track.
Digital literacy is the mission. The trophies are the Trojan horse.
Why This Matters
Forty-one percent of Facebook posts are now estimated to be AI-generated. One in three videos in a YouTube recommendation feed is synthetic. The 2026 Winter Olympics opening ceremony used AI-generated visuals and received a response from viewers that I will diplomatically describe as a verdict.
The people most targeted by this content are not foolish. They are operating without a framework. Once you have the vocabulary, once you know what Shrimp Jesus is and why it works and what the algorithm is doing when it serves it to you, you see it everywhere. You are not smarter. You are just informed.
That is the whole point.
The Sloppies is not here to shame anyone. It is here to make the learning unavoidable by making it impossible to look away. Humor is the delivery mechanism. The education is the payload.
The internet has a slop problem.
Now it has a ceremony.
Nominations for the March 2026 Sloppies are open now at thesloppies.com. If you found something spectacular in your feed, we want it. The Slopfather is watching. The Slopfather is always watching.
Next issue: a breakdown of the February winners, the specific tells that got each one nominated, and what each category reveals about where AI generation is still failing. Subscribe so you do not miss it.