Sizz

Sizz is a relatively new aesthetic that focuses on noise, distortion and other artifacts as a way to modify the subject of an image and make it more abstract. Though named in 2017 following a trend found on sites like Tumblr and Instagram, sizz is in fact a more modern evolution of several older aesthetics - a sort of combination of the German expressionist method of abstraction to build a sense of mood, the emotion created by contrast and lighting in American film noir, and the way the Japanese are-bure-bokeh street photography movement embraces griminess and lack of focus in its snapshots. The term "sizz" is intended as onomatopoeia to simulate the sound of noise - according to Merriam-Webster, the word "sizz" means "to hiss or move with a hissing sound." 
==Ideals==
Sizz is defined not by a set of specific rules, but by an "ethos" - composition is valued over technique, experimentation over purity, and feeling over formula. The community around this aesthetic is centered primarily around appreciating the artists that create such works, so giving credit is considered mandatory. (Most of the information on this page, for example, is taken from this post made by the creator of the aesthetic.) 
==Gallery==
File:Rusty Canvas.jpg|thumb|Rusty Canvas, by u/kollapse1. This image's title was designed to change the meaning of the image itself, thereby abstractifying it.
File:March 19, 2012.jpg|thumb|(March 19, 2012) by Jacob Seaton. This piece focuses on a person in a skeleton costume skateboarding through a graveyard, a particularly abstract way of viewing reality.
File:Printer death.jpg|thumb|"the last thing my printer made before its death" by u/evanroden. This piece focuses on the use of technological artifacts as the sole aspect of the image.
File:Icarus 3000.jpg|thumb|Icarus 3000, by John Karbon. This piece focuses on the emotion of a falling figure rendered stationary in front of an abstractified sun.
File:Allegiance.jpg|thumb|Allegiance, by u/darkened_m00d. This piece focuses on the layers of texture formed by cloth and fog and film grain.
File:Caligari frame.png|thumb|A demonstration of German expressionism, taken from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920).
File:BigClinch.jpg|thumb|A public-domain image from an American film noir.
File:Placeholder.png|Couldn't find any freely available examples of are-bure-bokeh. Please replace this image with such an example that can be used.
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