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Twitch Irony
When you're watching a streamer play a game and they are either lost, or making a mistake, but the audience is aware of that mistake, usually saying things like "They Don't Know" or "They Lack the Critical Information" or "Wait for it." Very similar to Dramatic Irony, but in a live setting.
Twitch Irony by heyZeusHeresToast April 29, 2021
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irmony • Irony • IronyBro • Irony Nazi • irony poisoning • irony-teen • _irony • irony alert • Irony Banana • irony bar
irony poisoning
Irony poisoning is when one's worldview/weltshauung/reality tunnel is so dominated by irony and detachment-based-comedy, that the joke becomes real and you start to do things that are immoral or wrong from a place of deep nihilistic cynicism.
irony poisoning by SRSLY WRONG May 24, 2014
irony squared
Irony as an external attribute; beyond the qualities of an implicit component. Irony as a subjectively-applied attribute of an object which ALREADY contains internal ironic components. Irony that falls outside of the bounds of postmodernism. Postmodernists call it post-irony and ascribe it primarily to post-postmodernism; although much of post-irony arcs farther, into hypermodernism. Includes ironic nihilism, ideal ironicism (aesthetic), and ironic identity (racial; collective conciousness). Popular in the alt-right messaging approach
A number of late 90’s postmodern academics considered second-degree existential irony to be a boundary of postmodernism rather than external to postmodernism itself; however this analysis did not take into account the unique attributes of nihilism as compared to existentialism as a whole
A number of late 90’s postmodern academics considered second-degree existential irony to be a boundary of postmodernism rather than external to postmodernism itself; however this analysis did not take into account the unique attributes of nihilism as compared to existentialism as a whole
Ironic nihilism is an example of irony squared because nihilism itself already contains implicit irony.
irony squared by sandraxine June 10, 2017
Hood Irony
1. On Reddit, just straight up gay porn.
2. On TikTok, hood irony is kind of funny. It is mostly consisting of the "SpongeBob in Memphis" video with walking/dancing silhouettes, sometimes not having the green screen removed for comedic purposes, and subscribe overlays all over the screen. There's also this "💈 Bro wanted Boosie Fade but got this instead 😂" image, that sometimes appear in hood irony slideshows.
3. Hood irony is also consisted of DreamyBullXXX videos, but cropped and with another context.
2. On TikTok, hood irony is kind of funny. It is mostly consisting of the "SpongeBob in Memphis" video with walking/dancing silhouettes, sometimes not having the green screen removed for comedic purposes, and subscribe overlays all over the screen. There's also this "💈 Bro wanted Boosie Fade but got this instead 😂" image, that sometimes appear in hood irony slideshows.
3. Hood irony is also consisted of DreamyBullXXX videos, but cropped and with another context.
1. bro i watched hood irony in public, instant regret 😭
2. i love hood irony tiktoks ♥️
3. robot malfunctions and threatens to kill the president of zimbabwe (stevan) - "oh my god, stevan im bout to- oh my god, stevan im bout to comewwwwwwww...."
2. i love hood irony tiktoks ♥️
3. robot malfunctions and threatens to kill the president of zimbabwe (stevan) - "oh my god, stevan im bout to- oh my god, stevan im bout to comewwwwwwww...."
Hood Irony by saulposting March 24, 2023
Layers of Irony
A term used in the current metamodernistic/internet era. Shitposting was originally "posting something bad." Literally a shitty post. Then, people started doing it ironically then, people started doing ironic shitposting ironically, and that's where things start to get weird. You're making fun of something that's making fun of something else, so it gradually became more and more absurd. The idea is it gets more absurd the more "ironic" you get, because if X makes fun of Y in an absurd way, you need to be even more absurd to make fun of X. Hence, tiers.
Reddit User: What's a good example of higher layers of irony?
Reddit Expert: For a good example of "higher levels" of irony. Above the "ironic shitposting level", there's the level where people will mock the concept of "ironic shitposting" as a childish waste of time by being more absurd or sort of "anti-circlejerking". Above this level, it begins to wrap around to mirror legitimate spam and shitposting, but framed in a way that is intentionally obvious and absurd.
Reddit Expert 2: The humour here comes from the absurdity of taking a post about decorating cakes, for example, and turning it into a post railing against white privilege. There can also be a lot of humour from the reactions of people who aren't in on the joke. Beyond this level, you have posts like the image from the OP. Posts which acknowledge the absurdity of everything I've just written by referencing the concept of irony and becoming totally non-nonsensical themselves, attempting to "out-absurd" even the most ironic forms of humour.
Reddit Expert: For a good example of "higher levels" of irony. Above the "ironic shitposting level", there's the level where people will mock the concept of "ironic shitposting" as a childish waste of time by being more absurd or sort of "anti-circlejerking". Above this level, it begins to wrap around to mirror legitimate spam and shitposting, but framed in a way that is intentionally obvious and absurd.
Reddit Expert 2: The humour here comes from the absurdity of taking a post about decorating cakes, for example, and turning it into a post railing against white privilege. There can also be a lot of humour from the reactions of people who aren't in on the joke. Beyond this level, you have posts like the image from the OP. Posts which acknowledge the absurdity of everything I've just written by referencing the concept of irony and becoming totally non-nonsensical themselves, attempting to "out-absurd" even the most ironic forms of humour.
Layers of Irony by Jack3t818 May 19, 2017
Homicidal Irony
Homicidal Irony is when someone threatens someone else's life with such an outlandish threat, that it deminishes the threat into something laughable.
Person A: I'm going to rip your spinal cord out and use it like a belt
Person B: haha that was some nice homicidal irony.
Person A: I'm not fucking kidding. Like I'm actually going to rip your head off and feed it to my dog.
Person B: Good one man
Person B: haha that was some nice homicidal irony.
Person A: I'm not fucking kidding. Like I'm actually going to rip your head off and feed it to my dog.
Person B: Good one man
Homicidal Irony by lunk_ March 10, 2020
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