Constructive Irony: Why Humor is an Antibody to Modern Culture (Response to Stoolmouth)

So recently I started posting Sam Hyde clips to my Youtube channel. The subscribers are used to Oneyplays compilations and I lose 1k every time. Never-the-less I couldn't help but notice people in the comments acknowledging the overlap between the two fanbases. If it were perhaps someone else I might be losing more. Someone pointed out that the internet acts like a hive mind, as certain types end up unanimously gravitating towards common influencers, as if to constitute clics amongst others. This furthermore suggests a diversity of personality types in online behaviour, all invested in their team's idols. I identified this distinction years ago. It is no coincidence that people are now beginning to integrate influencers from across the board as of a common creed.

It is true, despite having never met, Sam and Oney fans are natural allies. What’s the connection? There was a video by a small youtuber called Stoolmouth who didn’t understand this. Some people don’t like OneyPlays, they think the humor is obnoxious and vulgar, and immature—which it is, but that’s kind of the point. A more sincere, at times serious style would be Game Grumps’, the predecessor. There were always rotary life stories from Danny every once in a while, or some dead singer he needed to shout out at the end of the video. Danny as a person carries himself professionally, which isn't very helpful when he’s pumping fans in bathtubs before ghosting them behind the scenes. I once said that "Zach defends legitimacy with irony and Danny defends debauchery with what he presents as legitimacy." He is legitimacy in the name of meaningless open love, with a sincere smile. OneyPlays came along just as people were getting sick of this. Chris’s mantel during the Ding Dong era was this childlike innocence mixed with the edgiest one-liners you could imagine. It is to the last detail cynical, and in spite of things which do have it coming. The style was like a cartoon of Youtube’s trending algorithm, not unlike a parody of where the Game Grumps are at now. How can you be a Danny in a world of madness—the only rational thing to do is treat it like the joke it is. During the Ding Dong era, Chris spoke almost solely in irony, like a kid, making rhymes and funny noises, however it felt realer then anything Danny ever said, because where he kept a straight face in Clownworld, OneyPlays chose to parody it. Zach only improved upon this angle, bringing in politics and references to true youth culture—shots were taken at incels, self improvement culture, along with all else relevant to millennial suffering and humiliation. Someone who Zach draws comedic influence from is Norm MacDonald. He perfected something I call Constructive Irony in humor. It is a way of speaking which presents itself overly proper and optimistic, rational as any other easy goer’s. Norm used this chipper tone to deliver jokes concerning hard truths, or just to shock people, which is equally as funny once you know what he’s doing. What’s great about Constructive Irony is that you can use it for everyday converse as your default personality, then slant into more profound criticism with the same ironic grin. Underneath, true concern remains. You can’t have it on the surface because nobody likes a hard ass, but to be at once a regular person while a parody of a regular person is the move for cynical people with a sense of humor, so long as the dark cynicism underneath the sunny surface is played with skill. Norm saw the world as it is, chose to become a parody of it, like Chris and Zach after him. We see traces of the same method in use by younger Antinormie influencers, undoubtably as things got more lucifiscious in culture. Zach Hadel drew from Norm’s speech manor, so did Matt Watson and Ryan of Supermega; Chris developed something similar; Sam Hyde wears it in his own way. His taste in music is peak Ironycore—of which I have my own playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWWtXkWqicd5K5nymnRbc7LKmkmXV_7KX

So yes, people will tend to fall under different unnamed categories bound by a shared affinity for common influencers. For the Antinormie clic, the factor integrating all of these names, what's defining the viewership interest is cynical irony, and cynical irony only needs to exist as far as there are deeper concerns beyond the jokes—not just jacking off to quirky anime memes. This is what Stoolmouth couldn't grasp. The humor isn't obnoxious, it’s in-spite of the obnoxious. It may be Hank Schrader smiling on the outside, but not on the inside. This goes as far as the portion of the viewership who get the joke, the other portion are just trans rights little bitches. 

The true calling of OneyPlays fans was and is cynicism in the face of Millennial anguish. Someone like Sam has been on this for a long time. Eugene Shekelstein, with whom I have conversed many times before, postulated that Schizophrenia is a defence mechanism against modern pathogens, for a sound mind is easier to control. At least it can be said that online schizophrenic humor is an antibody to modern brainwashing. The modern imperialism of all and everything’s commodification, it doesn't propose itself up front, it does so subliminally, unofficially, but there. While people assume professional everyday movement, the Overton Window introduces customs more lucifiscious. It’s so subtle that to rebel out right against it is to seem out of the ordinary. Meanwhile as those ordinary condone modern culture, the floridation creeps ever further. It’s the acting normal which is the problem, as if the mind and body isn’t slowly under attack. But the schizophrenic mind, which cannot internalize reality to even except subversive toxins, that presides in the grey and may bypass new impositions with an immunity.

Ironic humor operates in the same way. If everything is fluid, then there’s by proxy nothing good to be tampered with either. The true weight of evil in the world is too much to bear. You can't be serious all the time in an environment this glitched out, you’ll kill yourself. Before our time, humor is a coping mechanism to suffering. Irony is the body’s immune system to the turbulence of mainstream descent, the ultimate immunity to modern pathogens.

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The Normie brain relies on familiarity, wired to correspond with signals and predisposed to routines. It is a state of mind rigid and accustomed to process. The hypersensitive Antinormie brain is too wise to potential attacks to settle with any convention of signals, for even the slightest distortion from Divine Intellect is enough to spoil any peace of mind. In a perfect world this would not be an issue, but we face pathogenes in the aesthetics of war, passion, even the sentimental; in sex and the aesthetics of sex; food, water; all facets of culture. The response to this flux is never to settle with a rational conclusion any which way, but maintain within the grey zone between threat response and the adoption of threatening proposals, lest you become accustomed to the prospect of those proposals. For most people it's allot simpler. The normie brain asks, is this in? (legitimate) or will it estrange me from social warmth? The Antinormie brain doesn’t have this save-state, but is interested more so in qualities over convention. The normie brain is wired to convention, it’s more passive and compliant to whatever this may be, which is a good thing until subversive forces take strategic advantage of that instinct. For dissidents under torment, taking things seriously means going along with whatever’s socially “serious” for the sake of convention. It also means watching the world become more distorted day by day. Irony prevents the mind from this sense of legitimacy which would conform to mainstream evil, as would be socially proper; plus, when things get too real, it helps to distance the mind from raw ideology—if all we had were a sense of good being desecrated, the only thing we'd have would be misery. Meanwhile, the truly sincere exists as the basis for irony to serve. OneyPlays talk in mid 2000s l33tspeak to make fun of an obnoxious style of humor. Some Oneyplays fans do the same, however not in spite of obnoxious humor, but almost as a continuation of it under the guise of irony. But Oneyplays isn't good because it’s quirky, it’s good because it satirizes what it's mimicking, and to far worse then L33tspeak in current prominence. There is a core of sincerity navigating the irony, Norm’s was pitted deeply; irony is a tool for taking things down a peg. For normies, irony is funny for the same reason mid 2000s humor was, it's quirky. 

Oneyplays dealt irony against Funko Pops and Reddit consumerism. Normie humor just makes references to different deliveries of pleasure. There are prescribed lines for them to be edgy-quirky, which you can catalogue on Know Your Meme: femboy hooters, booba, mommy milkers, big tiddy goth gf, lewd ara ara anime memes... But then they return straight back to formality as soon as there’s a joke undermining anything lucifiscious of their own investment. Sam Hyde screaming at a Balenciaga employee over the phone is edgy too, but this would make a normie blush because it’s too intense, and outside of their convention. Then it goes back to, they’re normal and we can’t take anything seriously. They see Norm and say “erm ok, awkward” to the person who couldn't laugh at Tik Tok compilations. Are we goofy wackjob degenerates while others take things seriously? No, the only thing a normie can take seriously is fitting in, which could and does mean Polyamory and new sexual freedoms. You can sense it in their movement; it’s in the distant soft spoken way of converse which is waiting for an opening to talk about some game or tv show, or an in to a party. There is no love in this. Normies will shmang over no deep compatibility. For them, morality takes a second to convention, for morality is a thing too sophisticated for majority units. Divine Intellect isn't meant for them. Antinormie, High Performance, Neurodivergent, INFJ, whatever you want to call it is a potential snub to subversion warfare because it can identify good from evil regardless of social convention through the lens of quality, and not signals conveying what’s in.