User blog comment:ATCaver/Hyper-realistic?/@comment-5790583-20120902173637

Dumbing it down, it's the idea of something being high definition, high detail, bloodshot maybe, and overall stands out. Using the adjective "Hyper-Realistic" is very hard to pull off sucessfully without coming off cheap, stupid, and just not scary. Like Oblit said, Squidward's Suicide is where it started and to this day I believe is the only good story with the term in it.