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MENTAL MODEL · M2930

Camp

Camp
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Version 1.0.0 · Updated 2026-07-30

CORE DEFINITION

An aesthetic taste characterized by exaggeration, artifice, and unnaturalness. It turns the serious into the frivolous and the boring into the amusing. The core is "so bad it's good/fashionable."

SCAFFOLDING EFFECT

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- Subcultural marketing: rustic videos, the design of Coconut Palm juice, are all "Camp." Through deliberate kitsch and flamboyance, they break through the boring mainstream aesthetic, winning over young people's deconstructive revelry.

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Camp transforms "deliberate exaggeration, artifice, and unnaturalness" into aesthetic pleasure, whose delight comes from the playful deconstruction of the serious or refined—"so bad it's funny or fashionable." The mechanism is "distanced parody," where the audience appreciates the flamboyance with ironic distance.

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