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I was going to make a personal rant thread in the style of (s)(w)(a)(y) but I figured since we all hate so many things that we might as well put our occasional rants in one bin. Or not. It's all whatever like that.
Anyways, I'm currently really annoyed by bad irony. It's as though kids hit this age when they discover what irony means and then proceed to be as flippantly ironic in order to sound more mature and intelligent. Of course I always hated bad irony but I only now rant because I was trying to form an opinion on the internet enigma named Jeffree Star. I was trying to find out why people dig this second-rate RuPaul and then it dawned on me that it's because Star has a sense of irony about it all. He apparently employs so much irony that the lack of a message fuels the original shallow model irony in some circular, self-sustaining attention whoring. And little girls and scenesters eat it up because apparently they think that the "above it all" irony points to some hidden insight. Of course I've been around long enough to realize that irony shouldn't be taken as intelligence. Any moron can be ironic.
Also, I hate this thread. (IRONY!!)
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