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A thoughtful piece on Bean Dad, the shifting poles of cultural irony, and generational humour. @emilypothast/1346267520894861312Permalink On Internet Archive
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This homes in on cultural irony as a major generational divide and as a route to the rise of movements like the alt-right. It's something that I touched on in my MA dissertation on irony and sincerity in contemporary indie video games and an earlier essay on irony in South Park.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Broadly speaking I'd say that Gen X were steeped in irony in the way described by David Foster Wallace and others. Millennials and Gen Z straddle the line between irony and sincerity with some of their art blending them in a New Sincerity aesthetic.Permalink On Internet Archive
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Family Guy and South Park are bastions of ironic Gen X humour while newer sitcoms like Schitt's Creek are, to some extent, representations of a newer, more sincere humour.On Internet Archive