Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Visionware

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visionware
. Honestly, you stumble upon these little nuggets of internet weirdness every now and again. You think, what the devil is that even mean? And frankly, I get it. It's a bit like finding a badger in your handbag. Just...there.

Basically, "visionware," as far back as we can reliably reckon (thanks to some wonderfully frantic corners of early 2010s online weirdness and shitposting, frankly), was essentially a deliberately, aggressively bad, glitchy, and sometimes downright horrifying screensaver or screenshower that you'd plaster all over your monitor. Think the equivalent of a screensaver... but instead of pretty pictures of fish, you get this… seizure-inducing, low-poly mess of rotating 3D objects—often vaguely disturbing ones. It was meant to be unpleasant . It was about actively messing with your carefully calibrated chill. Now, here's the weird bit: it wasn't really a term you'd throw around in polite company. Unless, of course, you were trying to inflict maximum awkwardness upon a room full of people. The name itself is just… spectacularly awful. Like the thing being the very definition of something going terribly, terribly off. The whole point was to overload your senses and give you that slight, vaguely panicked feeling of impending doom – because let's face