Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:21:16 AM No.81584125
Why exactly did social media give everyone an heir of irony behind everything they say? It almost feels like a defense mechanism.
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:25:39 AM No.81584144
>>81584125 (OP)
They're afraid of being wrong, so if they are they hide behind the "I was being ironic and satirical bro I swear!"
They're afraid of being wrong, so if they are they hide behind the "I was being ironic and satirical bro I swear!"
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Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:27:11 AM No.81584154
>>81584125 (OP)
>>81584144
It IS a defence mechanism. You have to be using probable deniability in every online interaction, just in case something you say with sincerity is either misinterpreted, or becomes "cringe" in the next few hours of rapid information transfer that occurs online. You really do not know. Saying something innocuous like:
>I like pizza :)
You never know what could happen to make that statement unacceptable. Maybe it comes out that Mr. Beast enjoys eating Baby Pizza and now YOU are associated with that. Zoomers and younger millennials are completely unable to live sincerely because of this, and it's deeply psychologically damaging. Everything they say is, to some degree, framed in irony, and people who they disagree with are never just disagreed with on an individual level, the zoomer or zillennial MUST imply that EVERYONE EVERYWHERE disagrees with and mocks their opposition.
What's more is that clout chasing has turned people under 25 into genuine psychopaths. The act of furiously documenting every single interaction you had with someone, screenshotting everything so you can expose it later, used to be seen as batshit insane behaviour, now it's just par for the course. So, you gotta be ironic and detached, lest you be destroyed.
>>81584144
It IS a defence mechanism. You have to be using probable deniability in every online interaction, just in case something you say with sincerity is either misinterpreted, or becomes "cringe" in the next few hours of rapid information transfer that occurs online. You really do not know. Saying something innocuous like:
>I like pizza :)
You never know what could happen to make that statement unacceptable. Maybe it comes out that Mr. Beast enjoys eating Baby Pizza and now YOU are associated with that. Zoomers and younger millennials are completely unable to live sincerely because of this, and it's deeply psychologically damaging. Everything they say is, to some degree, framed in irony, and people who they disagree with are never just disagreed with on an individual level, the zoomer or zillennial MUST imply that EVERYONE EVERYWHERE disagrees with and mocks their opposition.
What's more is that clout chasing has turned people under 25 into genuine psychopaths. The act of furiously documenting every single interaction you had with someone, screenshotting everything so you can expose it later, used to be seen as batshit insane behaviour, now it's just par for the course. So, you gotta be ironic and detached, lest you be destroyed.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:28:01 AM No.81584158
>>81584125 (OP)
>It almost feels like a defense mechanism.
Because it is. Sincerity is lame and cringe. It's easy to target, and having your sincere gestures attacked hurts more than something you could pose with ambiguous meaning and discard as a joke you're in on the second it earns disapproval. It's a side effect of social media. Interacting with literally millions of people daily isn't natural. When anyone could become a meme - the butt of a public joke - at any moment for any reason, everyone has to cloak themselves with a constant sheen of insincerity to protect themselves.
>It almost feels like a defense mechanism.
Because it is. Sincerity is lame and cringe. It's easy to target, and having your sincere gestures attacked hurts more than something you could pose with ambiguous meaning and discard as a joke you're in on the second it earns disapproval. It's a side effect of social media. Interacting with literally millions of people daily isn't natural. When anyone could become a meme - the butt of a public joke - at any moment for any reason, everyone has to cloak themselves with a constant sheen of insincerity to protect themselves.
Anonymous
6/23/2025, 10:49:07 AM No.81584270
>>81584125 (OP)
incentive and disincentive structures like everything else
incentive and disincentive structures like everything else