What does Camp-tastic mean?

Charlie Chan and Alfred Hitchcock were both tagged as camp-tastic. I’ve never heard of the term before. I always go with “cheesy” instead. LOL I don’t know if I want to have an item tagged as something that relates to cheesy. LOL

Thanks everyone!

I have to agree with Zanderbooks, the tags for books are seriously lacking relevence to the types of books available, and could use a major revamp.

I would think of any book you might read while camping or tell around the campfire at night.. The tags can mean so many different things to different people in different areas of the world. I usually accpet unless it is totally wrong. People get hurt by not having tags accepted, you would not get in trouble by accepting a tag that might not be right. I used to love to tag, and did it everyday but so many people are panicing over tags. It is desinged for you to get other opions other than yours. Like some people might put something on display that you never would. Does it mean your right and they are wrong ? no it is just another idea what you can do with that item…. I am with you with book tags. I try to avoid tagging those if at all possible. None of them are good usually

Okay…The question I have, “Does the tags have anything to do with how people find us in the search engines?”

I don’t think that Campy is a new term at all, just probably not used commonly. Yes, much of the old comedy and stap-stick was considered Camp! I can recall hearing things termed as campy when I was much, much younger and that’s some time ago!

Some of the earliest camp were shows like Ziegfeld Follies, Charlie Chapman, and the Keystone Cops. Camp has been vogue for over a century!

Per wikipedia:
Camp is an aesthetic sensibility that regards something as appealing or humorous because of its deliberate ridiculousness.¹ The concept is closely related to kitsch, and things with camp appeal may also be described as being “cheesy”. When the usage appeared, in 1909, it denoted: ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, and effeminate behaviour, and, by the middle of the 1970s, the definition comprised: banality, artifice, mediocrity, and ostentation so extreme as to have perversely sophisticated appeal.² American writer Susan Sontag’s essay Notes on “Camp” (1964) emphasised its key elements as: artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and ‘shocking’ excess. Camp as an aesthetic has been popular from the 1960s to the present.

Camp films were popularised by filmmakers George and Mike Kuchar, Andy Warhol, and John Waters, including the latter’s Pink Flamingos, Hairspray and Polyester. Celebrities that are associated with camp personas include drag queens and performers such as Dame Edna Everage, Divine, RuPaul, and Liberace. Camp was a part of the anti-academic defense of popular culture in the 1960s and gained popularity in the 1980s with the widespread adoption of postmodern views on art and culture.

Maybe it was common where some of you grew up. Regional use of words can make something common in one area and not in another. I’ve never seen it in print and never heard it spoken.

For instance today: I asked the boss if he knew what he did with the paperwork for his car tabs. He had no idea what car tabs are. He grew up in CT, they call them something else there. He thought I was nuts and I thought he had just crawled out from under a rock! Laughingly we joked with each other about regional terminology. My brother-in-law in Kansas says “twern’t”.

Well, I don’t really think “campy” is a regional thing. It’s probably not a word you would use in normal conversation. I usually hear it spoken on tv when the topic is movies or movie reviews.

Looks like I’m your neighbor, by the way. And what are “car tabs”?

What the heck is a car tab? LOL

About looking up the meaning of a tag. With all due respect, I don’t think we should have to go to the dictionary to find out what a tag MIGHT mean.

The concept that some people “get” it and some people don’t “get” it is, I feel, exclusionary.

Like when you go to a meeting or a conference, and all the speakers are using acronyms and technical terms, and the audience doesn’t have a clue what the speakers are talking about!

Carolyn

Sorry…but I think folks are confusing 2 different things

Camp-tastic——fantastic-fun things to do at or take to camp..whether it be reading good, spooky or silly stories..watching campy or scary movies, going white water rafting, tubing, canoeing, setting up a really cool tent…or what ever

Campy-funny, humorous frivolity, ridiculous…like froggie says above

Meatballs is a campy movie about Summer camp and would be camp-tastic (substitute word fun if you want) to watch on movie night at camp.

this is the way the kids at my son’s camp thought of it anyway!

@Iris…thinking more along these lines of camp-tastic…and by the way all these kids are high functioning ASD…of which he ← is one

They had a camp-tastic time

I thought camptastic meant a great story to tell when you are out camping. Oh well

Actually, down in Texas, “tags” refers to the auto registration sticker. It’s also used for license plates sometimes, but that’s mainly because we used to put our stickers on our plates. Now they’re on the inside of the windshield, which keeps peeps from stealing your tags. That used to be a major problem here until they moved them to the windshield next to the inspection sticker.

Anywho, I guess I should start accepting camp-tastic as a tag for those movies. Now that I know what it means and that it’s an applicable term, I feel more comfortable with accepting it.

Thanks, everyone!