Guys, I need to come clean about something...
I think I'm losing who I am
what I stand for...I think that something happened
and I changed.
I...okay here we go...
I can't tell when I'm being ironic anymore.
[bell rings]
Our generation loves to be sarcastic.
It's who we are, it's literally a part of us and
for some reason pretty much 98% of the things I say are meant to be "jokes".
And I like it, it's my sense of humour, it's my personality
but I'm just wondering if you can have too much of a good thing and lose yourself along the way.
I made a video a few months ago talking about how jokes can go from being funny
to being ruined by stupid people
to being used again "ironically" to make fun of the stupid people.
I now think there's another layer (DUN DUN DUN)
We do something ironically to make fun of it...
[funky music]
and then we keep doing it
[funky music]
and just keep doing it...
[more funky music]
And what I'm scared is at some point I stopped being ironic
and just started to enjoy saying it.
[error sounds]
Suddenly I start analysing my recent behaviour.
*dan singing along to high school musical 2*
What the f...
*dan still singing to high school musical 2*
Are you watching High School Musical?
Yeah, ironically
*dan singing to backstreet boys*
dan from outside: Are you listening to the backstreet boys?
Duh, ironically
BACKSTREET'S BACK, ALRIGHT!
Are you using comic sans?
IRONICALLY
Mmm, those are some hot curves.
Dan, that's really weird.
What?
You stroking the font, that's really fucking weird.
What? Nothing weird about that.
It's weird.
Don't judge me.
I'm not judging you, it's just not normal.
You're jealous of our relationship.
OH JEEZ OK
Now I'm not saying there's anything wrong with kid's TV or terrible 90s pop
though if I do ever genuinely like comic sans I will have to go end my life...
But how much of that was me ironically appreciating something's badness...
and how much of me just wanted to get funky to the backstreet boys?
Do you see my problem here guys? I'm scared for myself.
I'm just worried that if we keep "ironically" using 6 hashtags in a tweet
or spelling like a 5 year old
something will happen. We will go full circle and before we know it
we will be dribbling uncontrollable messes foaming in the corner
that no one wants to speak to.
And I dont wanna be that, guys.
It's funny though, I was watching some old Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
and just loving the 90s fashion
and it made me feel sad that nowadays being and looking
whatever "cool" is seems like so much work.
And I think that's sarcasm's fault.
It was our next stage in human evolution.
Once we started becoming self-aware
and judging and laughing at everything we do
it became impossible to have fun anymore.
Like this interaction I had with a friend the other day:
dan 1: You know, I like miley cyrus actually, I think she's pretty cool.
dan 2: DORK AHAHA OH MY GOD DORK ALERT
dan 2: "Ooh i like something" *laughs*
dan 1: *cries*
dan 2: NEVER SPEAK TO ME AGAIN
Everything has to be thought about! It's like you can't have sincere feelings anymore.
But hey, at least we know how sassy and intelligent we all are, am I right?
So I'm just saying if we ever want to be X-Men, which you know I'm personally
looking forward to my ability to go *clicks* and cause an earthquake
or just...telepathic control of snails
that's probably what I'd end up with...
we can't regress, we cannot go full circle
So watch your irony, guys. It's like silly string...
You'll have loads of fun for a few hours, but then you'll be a total mess and everyone will hate you :)
I want to know, honestly, if there's anything you guys
think there's anything you've slipped over the edge with.
Any cheesy music or bad films that you say you like ironically but you know you just love it.
Share your guilty pleasures with me down in the comments and together we can stop using irony
as a shield for the things we love.
But I am gonna go delete those "YOLO" tweets because that is just unacceptable.
Haha oh god...
See you next week!
It's the sexy end screen dance which in itself is very ironic
as who the hell would find this sexy?
I mean seriously, I'm just swaying left to right.
If you find this sexy then you really need to google "boobs" or something
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Danke!
Poltergeist!
Fuck! my butt! Don't do that...