>>717917916
bro forgot about rage faces
but yes we’re in the “post-irony” era. People are afraid to give their genuine opinion on anything and would rather just act intentionally aloof and sarcastic about everything. That sarcastic pedantry really got its start in the 90s id say, and now those people passed on that sarcastic wit onto the next generation, and this is the result. Post irony and absurdism. Not the first time people have defaulted to absurdist stuff as well. Existential dread following world wars caused all sorts of absurdism to happen in media, art, writing etc long before TVs and the internet became the norm. The world is looking increasingly unstable. People are jaded and apathetic and using escapism to cope with the hand theyve been dealt. Nobody is genuinely optimistic about the future of anything, they are directionless, godless, and many of them have straight up given up.
