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local anon · 2mo

'end of the day irony is either for comedians or cowards tbh' i love how you worded this! could you expand on it a little bit more if you don't mind!

Sure!

My thought in writing that is simply that irony's primary usage and end result is insincerity, because for irony to be funny or interesting, it needs to deliberately undermine the idea that irony is embracing.

It's the inherent foundation for comedy as a genre and as a form of expression and entertainment, but if used outside of that then it's a very insidious toxic habit of never being able to own or express yourself authentically or without plausible deniability.

Someone who can't represent their own emotions authentically means they're scared of not having control over how they're seen, they need to constantly obfuscate their personal truth, which means they're too scared to see even themselves. And I happen to think someone who runs away from their own existence is by definition a coward.

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