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
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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)
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(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"
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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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Cf. any time a screenshot dunk goes viral on Twitter and someone tries to go "Okay but in context what he clearly meant was"
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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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Before the stuff came out about the story of the worker with the disfigured hand being fabricated, if you made broader fact based criticisms of his piece you'd absolutely get shat on for smarm ("Actually the Shenzhen suicide rate is lower than the US overall")
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I mean, again, I say this as a big fan of DFW, it's ironic that he brought up his cruise essay because it was fake in exactly the same way Mike Daisey's monologue was fake and he openly admitted it but nobody cared in that instance because cruise companies are cringe anyway
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Daisey's defense that "Look in the world I come from of literary essays and dramatizations no one really cares if the stories you use as illustrations actually happened" is one of those awkward "It's true but he shouldn't say it" things
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And of course the Online Leftoscape is absolutely rife with a hybrid species where they regurgitate ridiculous revolutionary cosplay calling for mass slaughter & singing paeans to the glory of the working class but claim it's just snark if challenged on its mawkish tone.
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Yeah I mean dunking on Scocca and Gawker going "You're playing the role of a truth telling defender of the working class for your own clout for clicks and to get laid" is its own kind of snark But he classifies it as smarm because it's "counter-snark"
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