Microgenre

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A hyper-specific or niche genre.

    "This looked incredibly cool, and borrowed visually from video games and from the YouTube microgenre of shopping-cart crashes."

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"This looked incredibly cool, and borrowed visually from video games and from the YouTube microgenre of shopping-cart crashes."

Etymology

From micro- + genre.

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