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Serious Academic Roundtable: What is Camp?

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be prepared to defend your answers with citations. this is a Serious Question and i want Serious Answers as is the custom of Hexbear Serious Academic Roundtable

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Camp is deliberately exaggerated bad taste for the sake of irony. Not to be confused with kitsch, which is full-sending tacky with complete sincerity, sometimes with the intent of being quirky. Rocky Horror is camp, Dogs Playing Poker is kitsch.

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