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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @banalexistence

      he's just sappy and overwrought and urgh

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    2. A. Stallings‏ @banalexistence 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy

      This is probably why I have not encountered this "New Sincerity" stuff. That and my devotion to genre fiction.

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @banalexistence

      This old essay kind of captures my issues with Sedaris' writing style and the idea of being "anti-irony"https://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 …

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence

      The funny thing is this piece cites David Foster Wallace's cruise essay as a piece of great writing the New Sincerity never could've created but DFW helped *start* that movement with his E Unibus Pluram essay about TV ruining culture

      3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @banalexistence

      I dunno, I don't think the divide he's talking about is nearly as sharp as he claims Every snarky satirist has something they very fervently and earnestly believe in that they'll give you hell for mocking

      3 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
    6. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @banalexistence

      I'm not terribly surprised, since snark is *also* effectively an attempt to pull authority and demolish criticism by making something sincere ridiculous and position the snarker as a morally superior enlightened being.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    7. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

      The real gist to sum all this up is we all hate each other and we're just finding reasons to proclaim why we are the supreme authority and our opponents are vapid, cruel and hollow. Snark, smarm, it's all the same manipulative, petty shit.

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    8. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect @banalexistence

      Eh, I kind of agree with this line: "Like every other mode, snark can sometimes be done badly or to bad purposes. Smarm, on the other hand, is never a force for good."

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    9. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect @banalexistence

      Eh. Call me maybe overly attached to sympathy, but imo the writer doth protest too much. I really just think people want the license to be cruel, hateful shits and think themselves insightful and virtuous. Satire, snark, smarm, they're all ultimately from the same well

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    10. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect @banalexistence

      I think it seems pretty clear at this point that, overwhelmingly, smarm is a force that buoys the privileged and snark is the chorus of the marginalized Even when the Shapiros of the internet are attempting the latter it oozes with all the trappings of the former

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      ...Nah not really The whole "snark" brand was pioneered by South Park and Family Guy, the "smarm" they were aiming at was clearly the left

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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          Peak Snark online is the attack helicopter meme and "lol triggered much"

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          Putting the SpongeBob font on literally everything "YoU dOxEd A sUrViVoR oF tHe HoLoCaUsT lmao"

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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

          Hmm. That's an interesting argument At least in the case of South Park I've never considered its humor "snarky", like TWP reviews of Veronica Mars episodes are snarky to me and South Park is like the essence of smarm, with its entire "caring about things is super lame" thesis

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        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect @banalexistence

          Wait, you associate that with smarm?

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        2. A. Stallings‏ @banalexistence 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent

          No, I would say that snark was pioneered far earlier, in the popularization of grunge. Criticism of snark, IMO, started with the self-aware So Fucking What (1994). South Park and Family Guy were the souring of snark, its inevitable corruption and gateway to toxicity.

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        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @banalexistence @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent

          Well sure DFW's anti-irony essay comes from all the way back in 1993

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