History Main / StylisticSuck

* ''WebAnimation/SparkleOnRaven'' is an AffectionateParody of {{fanime}} started in 2022, made to look like the kind of thing you'd see teenagers put together on [=YouTube=] in the late 2000s. The animation is drawn in MS Paint and rendered in 480p; the only colors used are the default palette, and there is occasionally visible anti-aliasing from use of the fill bucket tool. The voice acting is all over the place, and some actors have really bad microphone quality to the point of being nearly inaudible. Despite this, there are flashes of [[AnimationBump great animation]] and competent voice acting that make it clear that the amateur quality is deliberately done out of a clear love for the style.

** The slow third movement tries to showcase the first violin, only to bypass introducing the main theme in favour of going straight into mindless decorative filigree, so that by the time the violin gets a solo cadenza, it has run out of ideas and just saws away to pad things out, ultimately climbing so high up its register that it goes horribly out of tune (and re-centres itself with an incongruous single pizzicato low G and poorly executed trill).

* ''VideoGame/ClayFighterInfiniteClayfare'': The trailers made for the Videogame/{{MUGEN}} fangame have Usefulnotes/MSPaint screens with handmade white letters in a black background, that show gameplays for their characters. Also, the trailer 2 has the ''Sculptor's Cut'' intro song with a lowered pitch for a unsetting effect.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dZtNYGlLM This]] commercial for [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 Lotso-Huggin' Bear]]. [[spoiler: Which is actually a ViralMarketing campaign created by Pixar.]]

* The [[NonIndicativeFirstEpisode first (in airing order) episode]] of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s anime adaptation, "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, [[BadBadActing 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]] [[LemonyNarrator 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 goat's music from ''Animation/TheGoatMusician'' has a general vibe to it that goes all over the place with an incomprehensible mood to boot. That's not even mentioning the theme he used for his work, which is taken from a Russian folk song that ends with a goat getting eaten by a pack of wolves. [[spoiler: The ending implies this is what happened to the goat musician as well after walking off with the wolf into the woods]].

* InUniverse in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' - Calvin is forced into a competition to impress a girl by Andy, and he creates a poem that falls into PainfulRhyme. She likes his poem more than Andy's because she believes Calvin was trying to aim for this.

* Music/FaithNoMore's "Everything's Ruined" video, which was inspired by video booths at county fairs, and had the band miming in front of various ChromaKey StockFootage - particularly funny moments have them "swimming" in front of an underwater backdrop, or fleeing from [[{{slurpasaur}} a giant tortoise]]. The band really didn't have much of a budget, having spent most of it on the other two videos for the album ''Angeldust'', so they deliberately went for something as silly and cheap-looking as possible.

* Music/PearlJam's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZySl72EByI Olympic Platinum]]", an overblown PowerBallad about the UsefulNotes/OlympicGames. Written by one of the mixing engineers, it features ridiculous music, backing vocals, and lyrics (at times Eddie Vedder can't even hide that it's a joke - "[[ChewingTheScenery I'll sing like]] [[Music/WhitneyHouston Whitne-eeeee]]"). [[http://www.twofeetthick.com/2012/01/fan-club-single-5-my-olympic-dream/ Even the cover for the fanclub-only single]] indulged in this.

* There are several programming languages designed to be as obtuse as possible - Examples include [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INTERCAL INTERCAL]] and the dreaded [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malbolge Malbolge]]

* Three words - ''SpringtimeForHitler''. A DoubleSubversion variation in that it's meant to suck, but of course turns into SoBadItsGood.

** [[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"

* The [[NonIndicativeFirstEpisode first (in airing order) episode]] of ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'''s anime adaptation, "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, [[BadBadActing 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 first ending of ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood]]'', which is styled like a child's crayon drawing.

* In chapter 62 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'', after Kaguya realizes that she drew her picture of Shirogane too pretty which would reveal her feelings for him, she then makes her picture as ugly as possible while keeping the physical traits that she likes about him to counterbalance it. It backfires on her every time, as even making Shirogane look like he went through a garbage compactor, [[SingleTargetSexuality she still finds him attractive]].

* ''Manga/OnePunchMan'':

* ''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 is 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 beginning of the first installment of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZxr1XfgGHI&feature=share&si=ELPmzJkDCLju2KnD5oyZMQ TUBEPOOP: Storymode]] is styled after late-2000’s [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop YouTube Poops]].

* There is one ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' animation called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWJsD5KCeQ Every TF2 Animation You've Ever Seen]]" meant to [[TakeThat throw a jab]] at overused cliches in ''Team Fortress 2'' videos, with a lot of the animation quality of the characters being wooden and using derivative jokes that many would already be familiar with (the always familiar sentry-sapping, for example). [[spoiler:All of this, however, is meant to hide the [[SurpriseCreepy creepier elements]] seen later in the video.]]

* Creator/BillyCollins' "Paradelle for Susan" is ostensibly a botched attempt at a particularly difficult 11th-century French form, whose structure he explains in a footnote. What begins as a hackneyed but competent love poem gradually devolves into a complete trainwreck as the writer struggles with the style's strict demands, ending with the line "Darken the mountain, time and find was my into it was with to to". It's actually Collins, a former U.S. Poet Laureate, parodying bad amateur poets and their perceived obsession with formalism. Other poets -- including some who got the joke -- have since written serious works in the style.

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* 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 is too large for how far away 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.

* ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'''s ShowWithinAShow, ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'', was intended to be like this, a ClicheStorm that contained every absurdity ever to appear in anime. Then they actually made a few episodes of the show as an {{Omake}}, and real viewers loved it so much it became a real, full length series. Sadly, the full length series diverges quite a bit from the one within ''Manga/{{Genshiken}}'', both in art style as in plot.

--> It was [[BiegeProse brief, for fiction]]. Barely a dozen pages, and at [[{{Padding}} least two of those were illustrations of Ren beheading a monster]]. Nearly every sentence ended in an exclamation mark. [[SpotlightStealingSquad Kento was brought up repeatedly]], [[CharacterShilling mostly to fawn over Ren and insult Touma]]. [[BigBad Isaac]]… this was not a story Isaac would want to read. It was amateurish, and [[HerCodenameWasMarySue self-congratulatory]], and barely coherent.

* ''Comicbook/XMenNoir'' features a series of backups prose stories parodying old pulp sf stories. ("The Sentinels" by Bolivar Trask) Thomas Halloway reads them, and even uses them to interrogate Professor Xavier. Considering the style and subject this is almost certainly a reference to the ''Iron Dream'' mentioned below. (Ironically, Trask comes across as [[FairForItsDay rather egalitarian by 1930s standards]], in his story the "perfect race" is formed by ''combining'' racial characteristics, and the mutant underclass turns out to be misunderstood. This is ''also'' ironic when you consider that in the main Marvel universe, Bolivar Trask was the bigoted scientist behind the mutant-hunting Sentinel robots.)

* [[Fanfic/FracturedInfinity 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 the leader of the heroes [[SpotlightStealingSquad beating the villains off by himself]] and then [[CluelessAesop giving a lecture about teamwork and friendship]].

* Some of the characters in ''FanFic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'' CopeByCreating, including writing fanfic, which is usually bizarre. [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Luz]] produces a blatant SelfParody [[HerCodeNameWasMarySue depicting Azura as a self-insert]], [[WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum Kyle]] writes the in-universe answer to ''FanFic/MyImmortal'' complete with clumsily placed song lyrics, and we don't see it but apparently [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Amethyst]] "wrote an [[WesternAnimation/DogCity ace hart]]/[[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls ducktective]] crossover [[TrollFic where ace cooked and ate the duck]]".

* ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy:'' In the second series, we hear the anthem of [[IncompetenceInc Sirius Cybernetics Corporation]], which in keeping with the company's ethos is sung by robots... a flattened fifth out of tune. After the song plays, out of key and with bizarre lyrics ending with "go stick your head in a pig", the Guide assures listeners that the actual anthem is ''worse''.

* ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'''s adaptation of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NLa4ebX4E 12/04/1980]] renders Garfield and Odie's fight as a filmed action scene of the sort that would be created by a pair of immature teenagers trying to look badass. Among other things, the whole fight happens in someone's backyard, the choreography is inept at best, and the effects work is clearly done in Windows Movie Maker. One version of the video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9K_3NP2MgE uploaded to Garfield's in-universe channel]], goes so far as to be visibly lower-quality, implying that the video has been poorly compressed in the process of being shared and uploaded.

* ''WebVideo/LasagnaCat'''s adaptation of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3NLa4ebX4E 12/04/1980]] renders Garfield and Odie's fight as a filmed action scene of the sort that would be created by a pair of immature teenagers trying to look badass. Among other things, the whole fight happens in someone's backyard, the choreography is inept at best, and the effects work is clearly done in Windows Movie Maker. One version of the video, [[uploaded to Garfield's in-universe channel]], goes so far as to be visibly lower-quality, implying that the video has been poorly compressed in the process of being shared and uploaded.

* Nui's introduction and fights with the Elite Four in ''Anime/KillLaKill'' feature lots of intentionally cardboard animation, with Nui and her opponents frequently being reduced to single frames being moved and rotated around the screen, both to add to Nui's creepy UncannyValley nature and to accentuate [[CurbStompBattle just how utterly trivial she considers fighting the Elite Four to be.]]

* 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, 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]].

* An episode of ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' features this hilarious AmateurFilmMakingPlot where Dedede tries to make an anime, recruiting more or less the entire cast to do the work. Between ExecutiveMeddling[[note]]Which, in America, ended up [[{{Macekre}} hitting close to home]].[[/note]], a ridiculously tight schedule and low budget, and most of the staff having no idea what they're doing (especially Kirby), it starts out as a parody of the show itself and gets very steadily worse. [[HilarityEnsues And funnier]].[[note]]Even in the original Japanese version.[[/note]]

* ''Podcast/TheNeighborhoodListen'': In the theme song at the beginning of each episode, co-host Burnt Millipede (played by Creator/PaulFThompkins) sings with a humorously flat voice as he tries to harmonize with Joan Pedestrian {played by Nicole Parker).

* ''LightNovel/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'' does this relative to a lot of other anime focusing on a FictionalVideoGame. Much of the comedy focuses on the fact that ''New World Online'', while undoubtedly high-tech, is kind of a mess, with terrible balance, massive design flaws, and laughably easy-to-activate exploits. In fact, the inciting incident of the series is the main character doing what the title says and only putting her skill points into defense, managing to stumble across a GameBreaker build [[AchievementsInIgnorance largely by accident]], and then doing so repeatedly, as every time the devs try futilely to patch it out, she just stumbles across another ridiculous exploit.

* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: According to Music/RickRubin, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cp69OUk_ZzE 1991 remix]] of [[Music/NewsOfTheWorldQueen "We Will Rock You"]] was deliberately made as ridiculous as possible, hence why the subtitle says that it was "ruined by" him. Among other things, the song features slapped-on HipHop beats, an intro where a crackly needle drop of the 1977 mix is cut off by a RecordNeedleScratch, a breakdown that consists predominantly of a looped sample of Music/JamesBrown shouting "tramp," and an outro where a goofy, growling voice shouts "this stuff is really fresh!" Rubin stated that he took such an approach specifically to protest the idea of remixing classic songs, considering the original version of this one "a perfect record."

-->-- '''Jerry Holkins from ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''''' about [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/23/ this]] strip

** His followup ''The Soundtrack Collection'' is a movie and tv theme CoverAlbum, and is more based around synthesized instrumentation, but still focuses on his inept piano or keyboard playing for comic effect. The opening track also has him singing Kenny Loggins' "Danger Zone" offkey - only for Loggins himself to stop the music and engage in a staged StudioChatter argument about its stylistic suck nature, then leave in disgust.