Thats why I just start saying words Ironically immediately and then get infected into using them unironically
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KammicRelief@lemmy.world 2 months agoMy problem is, right about when a word starts to appeal to me and I’m like “oookayy I’ll start saying it,” it’s way too late.
I guess I could balance it by always appending a Dude-like “…in the parlance of our times…”
Kedly@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This was me in high school. I even listened to boy bands ironically and then noticed I was singing them unironically.
Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the thing. Once it starts appealing to you, it loses value to the original group.
It’s one of my favorite ways to fuck with my nephews and nieces.
trafficnab@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
“Of course I know about fork-knife and Scooby-Doo toilet”
Decoy321@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Precisely. Another fun subtle thing to do is add “the” to the term. Gives it an extra sense of dismissiveness. It ain’t “TikTok”, it’s “the TikTok.”
Or better yet, “the tikkity tok.”