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
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"oh you have to read this word in temporal context, it meant something entirely different two years later"
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exactly, the idea was to create something so repulsive that no redditor would upvote it
they only partly succeeded
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stuff like gooby and dolan came in from the finnish chans, we thought it safe but reddit lapped it up
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ah, well it happens, one is used to threads 404'ing as well, dealing with loss is something you learn on imageboards
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