Irony Killed the Internet

What "killed the internet" in general is irony, which is normies' defense mechanism against being perceived as "cringe". Authenticity requires vulnerability but vulnerability attracts dead-eyed meta-ironic zoomers like catnip who project their own intense aversion to vulnerability as "ironic shitposting", i.e., shitting on any expression of authentic sentiment until everyone is on the same 18 layers of defensive irony as them all proving how cool they are to each other by how trying to one up each other on how little they care or take anything seriously

A screenshot of an anonymous imageboard post argues that irony has "killed the internet" by becoming a defense mechanism against being called cringe. It jokes that meta-ironic zoomers reject authentic emotion and compete to prove how little they care, creating endless layers of defensive irony.

• @eternalclassic / 63103 2025-01-06