Performative irony is when sincere things are said in such away that makes it seem ironic or not serious. While people who believe in what is being said takes it seriously. Performative irony is most common on the internet, where opinions are fluid and trolls plentiful.
This term was originally coined by Innuendo Studio’s video “The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops”
This term was originally coined by Innuendo Studio’s video “The Alt-Right Playbook: The Card Says Moops”
Questionable Troll: “ nazis did no wrong”
Normal Person: “Okay, troll”
Actual Nazi: “Yes, nazis are an oppressed group, we need to rise above”
Normal person: “Woah— that was a joke right? That wasn’t Performative Irony please?…”
Normal Person: “Okay, troll”
Actual Nazi: “Yes, nazis are an oppressed group, we need to rise above”
Normal person: “Woah— that was a joke right? That wasn’t Performative Irony please?…”
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The Irony Poisoning of the situation was, he would have tried help; but no matter how hard he had in the past , he somehow always became the villain .
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Person 1: S U C C
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someone who analyses passages for ironic content, and then remarks - "ha, how ironic"
someone who analyses passages for ironic content, and then remarks - "ha, how ironic"
I hear that television intellectual has a new book out
Yes, that's right. She has hidden her lack of wit with a sarcy kind of irony.
And there is a lame photograph of her in the inside cover, taken whilst she brooded around after graduating from her college course in Sexual Politics or some such pseudo what the what all irony snob
Yes, that's right. She has hidden her lack of wit with a sarcy kind of irony.
And there is a lame photograph of her in the inside cover, taken whilst she brooded around after graduating from her college course in Sexual Politics or some such pseudo what the what all irony snob
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damn man,
this email, it made me shit the bed, it honestly did. i fell asleep and my "email" ding happened. (a nice littly diddy, my netbook sings at me when i get mail.)
mentioned email, woke me for a light sleep, i ate a shit ton of oreos earlier, now my bed is oreo shit laden.
thanks for that
(read out loud in a tone of walken or shatner, your choice)
damn man,
this email, it made me shit the bed, it honestly did. i fell asleep and my "email" ding happened. (a nice littly diddy, my netbook sings at me when i get mail.)
mentioned email, woke me for a light sleep, i ate a shit ton of oreos earlier, now my bed is oreo shit laden.
thanks for that
(read out loud in a tone of walken or shatner, your choice)
by oreo mud tunnel September 16, 2010
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Pun used to describe the taste one experiences when "eating out" a girl while she is on her monthly menstrual cycle, with the idea that blood has an iron-like taste.
Pun used to describe the taste one experiences when "eating out" a girl while she is on her monthly menstrual cycle, with the idea that blood has an iron-like taste.
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There's a muppetic irony to Petey's lack of self-control...I suspect Kermit, what with his brown-stained hand and all.
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