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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.

      2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @loudpenitent @Nymphomachy @banalexistence

      Yeah I mean the real upshot of "irony culture" is that the "nothing is sacred" ethos is always just as hypocritical and fake as its supposed "everything is sacred" opposite

      2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
    9. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      I mean to be clear here I namedropped Daisey because I do think he's a pretty important encapsulation of the distinction: dude went to Shenzhen and then fabricated an entire one-man show about being the great white savior of exploited Chinese manufacturing employees and then (+1)

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

      (cont) threw an absolute tantrum online when Ira Glass investigated his claims after putting his program on the line to vouch for him and discovered he made up literally all the meaningful details Because "his heart was in the right place" and he was just trying to "make change"

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
      Replying to @Nymphomachy @loudpenitent @banalexistence

      That's "Facts matter vs facts don't matter" culture, which honestly is orthogonal to "snark vs smarm" When it's the self-identified snarkers on the wrong end of it they think that "Facts matter" culture is SUPER smarmy

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

          Cf. any time a screenshot dunk goes viral on Twitter and someone tries to go "Okay but in context what he clearly meant was"

          1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          It's funny because before that happened Daisey's overall career was absolutely Team Snark by any reasonable standard, like the Gawker stuff about mocking hipsters and techbro culture and "writering"

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        2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and

          I think this is a good point: snark vs. smarm doesn't really mean anything in absolute terms, really. Snark is just a style of comedy, which reflects the underlying views of the snarker, which can be anything.

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        3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 29 Apr 2020
          Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

          Smarm isn't even really a style itself, because it's not generally aspired to. It's just what you get tagged with if you take anything too seriously - or at least self-seriously.

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