@0xDEBA5E12 you are familiar with the term "postironic meme", right?
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well that came out rather splainy, sorry
but not long ago (2012), we called them postironic, not dank
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*lights pipe* so I was "there" or as "there" as you can be at that time and saw it happen first hand and high res
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postironicity was created on purpose, as a pushback against reddit popularising everything that's good and holy
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the people who made the first postironic memes and drew the first postironic ragecomics were quite serious about it
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slowly the next generation of posters rolled in and took postironic* content for granted, started calling it dank
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the new generation (think the 8chan part of mainstream) have truly adopted it and taken it further
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ofc people were producing what you could call postironic for much longer but the unifying purpose behind it is young
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I really like how complicated this history is, give it another decade and it'll be worse than classical chinese
"oh you have to read this word in temporal context, it meant something entirely different two years later"
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