History Main / StylisticSuck

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/36485455 Fractured Infinity’s]] BreatherEpisode features [[LegionOfDoom Dark Guild]] attempting to make a movie to brainwash the masses into obeying them. What little we see of the script is incredibly awful, with forced exposition in the dialogue, blatant lack of medical knowledge (two males got breast cancer) and the scene ends with he leader of the heroes [[SpotlightStealingSquad beating the villains off by himself]] and then [[CluelessAesop giving a lecture about teamwork and friendship]].

* Depending on who you ask, the music video for {{Music/Journey}}'s "Separate Ways" may have been this. Steve Perry notoriously ''hated'' the medium of music videos, dismissing the bands popularized by them as "fashion music." So, when their label told them "make one or else," they aimed to make one so terrible that the record company would ''never'' ask again. [[SpringtimeForHitler The song ended up becoming a hit instead.]]

* ''LightNovel/NinjaSlayer'' is an AffectionateParody of ultraviolent 90s {{Cyberpunk}} anime like ''Anime/{{Genocyber}}'', with over-the-top fight scenes, a threadbare plot that exists purely to [[ExcusePlot justify ninjas slaughtering each other]], [[BloodyHilarious cartoonish amounts of gore]], and loads of FanDisservice. The anime takes it UpToEleven by being a CompressedAdaptation that relegates entire plotlines to a crappy ClipShow and has hilariously inconsistent animation, swinging wildly between [[SensoryAbuse obnoxious over-animation]] and [[LimitedAnimation sliding animation cells around to replicate fighting]].

* The PunkRock movement invoked this trope by bashing out [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth simple songs]] turned UpToEleven. In particular, [[Music/SexPistols Johnny Rotten]] invoked this trope with deliberate avoidance of "good" singing for the [[TheNewRockAndRoll maximum possible shock value]]. This also extended to the fashion sense of punk, including ripped clothes, safety pins through the ears, etc.

** Polly-Louisa Salmon, aka [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFOTY GFOTY]] ("Girlfriend of the Year") goes in the opposite direction; while taking cues from typical mainstream club and pop music, she dials their ugliest, most vulgar and hedonistic traits UpToEleven, sometimes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzo2vvUWLoo sounding punk-inspired]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcQP1HXN_w sometimes to the point of]] FanDisservice. This even extends to her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36UUyQoYE1s general image outside the music.]]
* Music/{{Sophie}}, an associate to Music/PCMusic acts above, has a similar-sounding take on pop music, which occasionally plays up 2000's-era radio and bubblegum pop clichés UpToEleven, with heavy emphasis on synthesizers and vapid, repetitive and unspecific lyrics (a good example being "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z3N79ktprw JUST LIKE WE NEVER SAID GOODBYE]]"). The end result ends up so exaggeratedly polished and artificial that it ends up sounding surreal and [[UncannyValley almost kind of creepy]].

* ''WebVideo/WayneRadioTV'': All the folks over at Radio TV Solutions generally appreciate this form of humor and use it often, but Moupi takes this trope and takes it to its [[UpToEleven most]] [[ExaggeratedTrope logical]] [[LogicalExtreme conclusion]] by making streams so low quality its [[https://youtu.be/arb0ELGMyl8?t=1313 near impossible to understand whats even happening]] the majority of the time.

* The first (in airing order) episode of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', "The Adventures of Mikuru Asahina", is a ''gloriously'' bad student film made by the main characters, with a plotline that makes no sense, random scene changes, flat characters, appalling acting, shoddy directing (the conversation where both characters are facing right springs to mind), ''really'' badly animated special effects (with one exception - that happens to nearly take out the cameraman) and an opening song which sounds like it's being sung at gunpoint. And [[DeadpanSnarker Kyon commenting]] on all this.
*** An early fansub added to this by applying subtitles and karaoke that were reminiscent of those you'd find on old fansubs, complete with [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} Comic Sans]] and a static karaoke with notes.
* The unnamed alien soap opera watched by the whole household in the original ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs is poorly written and badly acted, and yet enthralls everyone who watches.
** Mihoshi is also obsessed with a badly-made anime called ''Space Police Policeman,'' [[DontExplainTheJoke which is ironic considering she's a]] ''[[DontExplainTheJoke real]]'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Galaxy Police officer.]]

*** On another level, Saitama's appearance provides a meta-context to his perception by other characters: he's regarded as a RidiculouslyAverageGuy and seldom noticed until he starts busting up the scenery. As such, he's drawn with the level of care an artist might give to a tiny background figure who is of no importance to the scene.

* While much of the composition of ''Art/LeDejeunerSurLHerbe'' could be considered amateur, what makes it different is that Manet purposefully made these errors. The woman in the pond it too large for the amount of distance the painting implies her to be, with her thumb lining up with the man on the right's thumb to collapse the illusion of depth. The nude woman is depicted with an absence of contrast you would see from nudes in other paintings, critics commenting that the lighting looks as though it was done in a studio. What few shadows there are depicts them as stark compared to her light skin, the shadows almost outlining her figure. While the figures have impressive attention to detail, the grass and other details in the background looked loose and unfinished, something that would later define other Impressionist painters.

* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's "Girls Just Wanna Have Lunch" was made deliberately bad as a form of WriterRevolt. The label was dead against releasing the album without a Music/CyndiLauper parody, so Yankovic deliberately made the song as unlistenable as possible: the lyrics are repetitive and nonsensical (the only joke being "women are obsessed with eating lunch and only lunch"); Al sings in a harsh, grating SimpletonVoice that sounds as if he's constantly on the verge of throwing up; and the song is occasionally punctuated with repulsive chewing and slurping sound effects set at a high volume in a rare audio version of GrossUpCloseUp.
* Another, much more polished "Weird Al" song, "Eat It", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYGCpqAvoCs got this treatment]] as a response to the train wreck that was Creator/GalGadot's cover of Music/JohnLennon's "Imagine". Those involved are similarly annoying and putting in as little effort as possible, all as part of a TakeThat against the genuinely horrible video it was imitating.

* Creator/HJonBenjamin recorded and released the comedy jazz album ''Well, I Should Have (Learned to Play the Piano)'', with the joke being that he's performing on the piano despite ''having no experience with the instrument'' and very little affinity for jazz music. He's accompanied by a talented and professional backing band, so the experience of hearing an otherwise well-composed jazz number getting intruded on by clumsiest piano solos you've ever heard is nothing short of jarring and hilarious.

* Creator/HJonBenjamin recorded and released the jazz album ''Well, I Should Have (Learned to Play the Piano)'', with the joke being that he's performing on the piano despite ''having no experience with the instrument'' and very little affinity for jazz music. He's accompanied by a talented and professional backing band, so the experience of hearing an otherwise well-composed jazz number getting intruded on by clumsiest piano solos you've ever heard is nothing short of jarring and hilarious.

* Creator/HJonBenjamin recorded and released the jazz album ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well,_I_Should_Have... Well, I Should Have (Learned to Play the Piano)]]'', with the joke being that he's performing on the piano despite ''having no experience with the instrument'' and very little affinity for jazz music. He's accompanied by a talented and professional backing band, so the experience of hearing an otherwise well-composed jazz number getting intruded on by clumsiest piano solos you've ever heard is nothing short of jarring and hilarious.

* Chapter 59 of ''Fanfic/YouGotHaruhiRolled'' imagines what the ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' series would be like had it been dubbed by Creator/FourKidsEntertainment. [[TastesLikeDiabetes It's the most saccharine thing ever.]]

-->I'll be like Dwight Stone\\
I'll be like Bruce Jenner\\
I'll be like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Decker#The_1984_Olympic_incident that girl who trained all her life as a distance runner and then tripped with a quarter mile to go]]

** This episode is all Kyon's. Without his commentary, the film would honestly be bad, with it included, it's [[SoBadItsGood So Bad It's Absolutely]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments HILARIOUS!]]
** Episode 00 is in 4:3 aspect ratio while the rest of the series is widescreen. The first ''screen format''-related Stylistic Suck?

* WebAnimation/FinPunch looks just like a bad anime, complete with [[BishieSparkle Bishie Sparkle]]... But we LOVE it!!

* Two words: '''Orange Cassidy'''. His entire schtick is that he's the laziest wrestler on the planet, regularly doing moves with his sunglasses on and hands in his pockets, while delivering the slowest chops and kicks which the wrestlers taking them almost always NoSell (and when they don't, it's usually also because of this trope). Meanwhile, [[RunningGag the audience and announcers hype it up as if it were Daniel Bryan or Kenta Kobashi delivering them, or as if the career of the one taking it was in jeopardy]]. Which makes it all the more shocking when Cassidy [[LetsGetDangerous suddenly starts breaking out actual wrestling moves.]]

** The ContemptibleCover of her album "Bangerz", which is intentionally badly photoshopped and styled like the stuff from the 1980s that did not age well. And this one is definitely CoolButStupid, since the aesthetic makes it look nothing like anything else on the shelf and has an undeniable style to it, albeit an ugly one.

* If you scratch a film negative and then develop the photo normally, you get what looks like a garish neon light. This is an effect most photographers strive to avoid. Creator/JessiePark however, decided to use the effect deliberately. Nor would most say that her photographs are high quality: she used a handheld cheap camera with relatively limited features for all of her work. The lighting, framing and general treatment of her subjects are often suboptimal, and the technique is sometimes (deliberately) poor. This was the point: before alteration the photos were meant to resemble what an ordinary person might have in their home photo album, thus making the surreal alterations particularly powerful to the ordinary viewer.

* if you scratch a film negative and then develop the photo normally, you get what looks like a garish neon light. This is an effect most photographers strive to avoid. Creator/JessiePark however, decided to use the effect deliberately. Nor would most say that her photographs are high quality: she used a handheld cheap camera with relatively limited features for all of her work. The lighting, framing and general treatment of her subjects are often suboptimal, and the technique is sometimes (deliberately) poor. This was the point: before alteration the photos were meant to resemble what an ordinary person might have in their home photo album, thus making the surreal alterations particularly powerful to the ordinary viewer.

* James Roberts and John Barber’s ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' run has various [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe films and shows]], all of which do this in their own unique way:

** Finally, the first Cybertronion-made movie to be shown on Earth is “Dark Invasion”, a film made by [[ThoseTwoGuys Rumble and Frenzy]]. It’s a [[ClicheStorm brainless]], [[DudeNotFunny tasteless]], and [[StuffBlowingUp explosion-filled]] action movie that is so terrible, [[GenreKiller it kills any audience interest in Cybertronion filmmaking]].

* On [[Music/DevinTownsend Devin Townsend's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8KIhclVaK0Des9uMrJlt1w YouTube channel]], he released "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmIByrcwAQ&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGAVM0BaxZpZp3d4&index=27 Devin Townsend LUCKY ANIMALS (Unofficial Video) =[=]=]]]", a video of him dancing in his backyard to the song "Lucky Animals". There are no cuts, no special effects, not one else there with him. It's about as low-budget as a music-video could possibly be.

* Music/CaptainBeefheart's ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'', a cacophony of jumbled instrumentation, odd lyrics, and terrible singing that sounds like it was recorded in a basement by a group of high schoolers who don't even know how to play their instruments. Turns out that Captain Beefheart wanted it to sound that way on purpose, as he had his band meticulously reherse the album to a disturbing degree to sound terrible.

** The website hosts several "Powered by The Cheat" cartoons, which are badly-drawn, badly-voice-acted, and badly-animated Flash cartoons made by the Cheat, many of which [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue feature other characters randomly heaping praise on him]].
--->"The Cheat is a millionaire! A parade for the Cheat!"

** [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbsite/ Strong Bad's personal website]] (revealed in, of course, "website") is a pitch-perfect parody of old Geocities webpages - the formatting is bad, there's an overlong Flash intro, and most of the site is just random looping gifs and pictures of his pet. Strong Bad himself admits that he didn't have any reason for making one; he just felt he should have one and then made it about the Cheat for lack of a better idea. However, it's at least a few tiers above [[http://homestarrunner.com/mywedpage.html Homestar's personal website]], which consists entirely of a repeating background of a Homestar picture run through several Photoshop filters, a broken piece of formatting for a title, and the words "helscome my wedsite. [[CaptainObvious its not done.]] this page is best viewed using Nedscape 1.0 or lower"