squeecore

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A sappy, lightweight style of speculative fiction focused on wish fulfilment, with the deliberate use of genre tropes and pop culture, etc. at the expensive of realism and deep characterization.

Word forms

squeecore

Etymology

squee + -core, coined in R. S. Benedict's Rite Gud podcast.

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