this topic was super interesting to me -- i think humour is very impactful and it's cool to see how it progresses! i forgot to talk about how gen z love to ironically use emojis and how random it has become because it's such a new phenomenon.... like why is 🤸 so funny!!!

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 intro (no more millennial gen z war pls)
2:30 irony lesson stolen from jreg
5:13 gen z's unique use of meta-irony
7:04 schrödinger's meme & meta-ironic personas
10:27 gen z vs. millennial absurdism
13:26 dark humour & nihilism
17:52 potential danger of meta-irony?

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SOURCES:
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What is the Age of Irony?: https://www.infobloom.com/what-is-the...
The Age Of Irony Comes To An End: http://content.time.com/time/subscrib...
Why is Gen Z Humor So Weird? (Mister Sweet):    • Why is Gen Z Humor So Weird?  
Coping with war and crisis through memes: https://www.vox.com/2020/1/17/2106511...
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth after Postmodernism - Four Faces of Postirony (Robin van den Akker, Alison Gibbons, Timotheus Vermeulen)
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What’s Up with Gen Z’s Quirky Social Humor?: https://www.millennialmarketing.com/2...
The Shocking and Absurdist Humor of Gen Z:   / the-shocking-and-absurdist-humor-of-gen-z  
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Pre-Ironic Memes Retrospective: Understanding the Conception of Irony Cycles:    • Pre-Ironic Memes Retrospective: Under...  
Eric Andre, Pioneer of Absurdist Humor:    • Eric Andre, Pioneer of Absurdist Humor  
Why Is Millennial Humor So Weird? 👀:    • Why Is Millennial Humor So Weird? 👀  
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