/lit/ - Literature

Sorry for the long post, it's very late and I've been thinking about this topic for a while
We're accelerating towards the irony singularity. The based and redpilled meme really kicked it off. At first, someone would say "based and redpilled" in a sarcastic way to signify something was actually cringe and bluepilled, but now you say "based and redpilled" to show you think something is based while taking the guise of someone who says it ironically, an imaginary person who thinks that something is cringe. And maybe this sarcasm has even been used with three layers of irony instead of 2 or 1, it's hard to tell. There has always been irony on 4chan, and it has always mocked itself. But this postpostirony is different. There is no humor here. As we approach the irony singularity, humor loses all its meaning, until we're just going through the motions, placing the ironic mirror inside another ironic mirror. Even if you dont think you're contributing to the acceleration, you still are doing so by replying to ironic posts or "playing along" with the memes. The economic system of (you)s we have created is sentient and self sustaining. It takes in (you)s and creates (you)s, and does so increasingly efficiently by using tactics such as irony. So to answer your question OP, this is perfectly natural, and probably would have happened eventually. Shitposting has given way to postpostironyposting. The oldfags are still here, but they cant do anything against it, and can only voice their reasoning in threads like these.