"Low culture" is a derogatory term for forms of popular culture that take mass appeal. Its contrast is "high culture", which can also be derogatory. It has been said by culture theorists that both high culture and low culture are subcultures. Popular culture is mass introduced by what has been called by socialist culture analyst Theodor Adorno a "culture industry".
All cultural products especially high culture throw ademographic to which they appeal most. Low culture appeals to very simple and basic human needs plus enable a perceived improvement to innocence, the escape from real world problems, or the experience of well vicariously through viewing someone else’s life on television.
Low culture can be formulaic, employing trope conventions, stock characters and quotation archetypes in a family that can be perceived as more simplistic, crude, emotive, unbalanced, or blunt compared to high culture's implementations—which may be perceived as more subtle, balanced, or refined and open for interpretations.