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'''Irony''' is the close contrast of what on the surface ''appears'' to be the case and what is ''actually'' the case or to be expected. A classic example of this is the '''[[Waco|Waco Siege]]''' where the US Attorney General, [[Janet Reno]], ordered an all-out [[FBI]] and [[Alcohol|A]][[Tobacco|T]][[Firearms|F]] assault on a religious [[cult]]'s compound to prevent a mass-suicide attempt à [[LA|la]] [[Jonestown]]. After the smoke cleared, literally, 88 [[true believers|Branch Davidians]] lay dead, including 25 children, a fair number of fetuses and Davidian leader David Koresh.

==Variations==
===[[Hipster]] Irony===
[[Image:IRONY!!!.JPG|thumb|right|This woman actually enjoys Darkwing Duck, but pretends to be wearing this shirt "ironically".]]

This definition of irony is perhaps the most complex, and is frequently used by [[emo]] kids, though often they are not aware of this fact. '''[[you|Hipster]] Irony''', as it is called, determines irony as being a self-awareness of one's behavior, insofar as that behavior is incongruent with what is expected and what actually occurs. An example can be seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20070210203439/http://www.cryingwhileeating.com/ here]. Irony is thus ''self-awareness of irony'', under this definition. It is only thanks to this latter type of irony that the emo and hipster [[scene]]s are considered in any way cool (ironically enough, only by other [[Retard|emos, hipsters]] and Jews hate hipsters you dumbfuck), and not just another branch of [[geek]]dom. 

For example: a person who wears, say, a ''Legend of Zelda'' t-shirt, but who does it ironically in the hipster sense, is being self-aware of the irony of their situation — they are in essence saying "[[Man]], isn't it so ironic that someone as cool as me would wear such a geeky shirt?" Thus it is that emo kids and hipsters get away with wearing and participating in a lot of what is otherwise considered "fringe" or uncool behavior.

The selection of the correct tee or fashion item with the highest level of irony is a complex process. Irony is a byproduct produced by careful aging of once-popular things, products, or ideas. Much as a can of [[Purple Drank|grape drink]], given time and yeast, will become a fine [[wine]], a popular idea allowed to wallow into obscurity can become rich in ironic value. Much as a trained [[pig]] can find truffles, a hipster can smell irony in an [[old]] thing and make it cool. The irony-aging process can take months or years. For example Thundercats was popular in 1983, by 1988 was passé, and by 1994, virtually unknown. By 2004 they were obscure enough that wearing a Thundercats printed tee is ironic and hence "cool".

Anyone who participates in hipster irony is actually not cool at all. This means that they are actually the victims of traditional irony. Which is ironic.

Another example of [[Hipster]]-[[france|esque]] Irony are men's pink shirts.  [[Hipsters]] believe that wearing a [[pussy|pink]] shirt expresses how comfortable they are with their [[homo|sexuality]], when in fact pink is a [[feminine]] color.  So by expressing their sexual stability, they aim to insinuate manliness.  It then becomes ironic that they are insinuating manliness through the color pink.  But of course no manliness is expressed because all [[Hipsters]] are fags.

===Internet Irony===

The use of [[Netspeak]], [[Leet|leetspeak]], Newspeak or [[AOL speak]] to subtly (or not so subtly) mock those who use it sincerely, without realizing its stupidity, is considered '''Internet irony'''. It is also ironic, in this sense, to post [[old memes]] or other [[Internets]] has-beens for humor purposes. 

[[Shit nobody cares about|Internets irony shares a lot in common with hipster irony (see above), because it represents a self-awareness of the incongruity between expected (read: cool) behavior and unexpected (read: uncool) behavior.]] At this time it is unknown which type of irony manifested first.

The line between Internets irony and plain stupidity, as with hipster irony, is often a blurry one (irony users in places less able to discern irony may wish to avail themselves of the following image to make their intent clear:  [[Image:Ironic.gif]]), and some places (such as [[Something Awful|FYAD]]) have elevated it to an art form. Internets irony often encompasses the sub-category of grammatical irony, including the key phrase "Your an idiot."

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===Poetic Irony===

[[Poeticirony|Poetic Irony]] is when you take pictures of yourself mongling your dog, post them on [[bestiality|Beastforum]] and then say that they were [[shopped|photoshops]] when Anonymous finds them, posts them on your DeviantART page. The Poetic Irony increases based on whether said pictures are faxed to your house and your school or not.

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===Morisettian Irony===

On June 13th, shitty pop singer turned [[Grunge|post-grunge]] diva Alanis Morisette released the album ''Jagged Little Pill'', with one of the tracks being a little song called "Ironic". Now, obviously, as every hack comedian will tell you, her interpretation of "irony" is "just any coincidence or tragedy" and "Ironic" is about as ironic as [[you]] being a gigantic loser. Since the album sold 33 million units worldwide and the single for that song peaked at 4 on the Billboard Top 100, Alanis Morisette forever fucked irony in the ass.

Guess what? Everybody that isn't a [[16 year old girl]] or [[emo]] looking for an excuse to [[cut]] themselves knows that it's bullshit. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_(song)#Linguistic_usage_disputes You] [http://funkwit.com/blowhole/?rant=lyrics&entry=ironic are] [http://fgk.hanau.net/articles/ironic.html seriously] [http://archive.is/AwMO5 not] [http://archive.is/U9thB saying] [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=nT1TVSTkAXg anthing] [http://archive.is/g9H6o new].

{| align="center" style="padding:5px;"
|<span style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="blue"><big><big><big><big><big>'''YOU ARE NOT WITTY FOR'''</big></big></big></big></big></font></span>
|}

{| align="center" style="padding:5px;"
|<span style="text-decoration:blink"><font color="blue"><big><big><big><big><big>'''TRASHING ON THE SONG.'''</big></big></big></big></big></font></span>
|}

It should also be noted that the unironic lyrics make the song itself ironic. Mention this whenever someone tries to look smart by bashing it.

==The "Death" of Irony==
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Irony has existed for [[at least 100 years ago | at least a hundred years]], but only came to be understood in its coincidental and hipster forms during the '90s. Indeed, the '90s were widely regarded by the intellectual set as the "Decade of Irony," largely because the intellectual set feels the needs to classify every decade as something or other. 

Following [[9/11]], irony was declared "dead," the argument being that it was no longer funny to point out the irony of a situation (i.e., an occurrence which is unexpected given the circumstances). This notion never really made much sense, however, since it is impossible for a concept as powerful and pervasive as irony to die. Still, the catchphrase "irony is dead" sounded [[pretty cool guy|pretty cool]], so people started bandying it around as if they knew what it meant (or even what "irony" meant, for that matter). The fact that said people could declare irony dead without knowing what it meant was itself somewhat ironic.

Captain Ahab also declared irony dead in 2009; as did several [http://www.theendofirony.net blogs].

==Things which are Ironic==
*[[Duke Nukem Forever]]: It actually came out
*[[Mark Foley]]
*[[Ted Haggard]]
*[[TwilightSucks]]
*Calling other people kids on the internet when you are 16. 
*The Patriot Act
*Realizing that those WERE the [[Star Wars|droids]] you were looking for!
*The War on Terror
*[[pr0n|Watching girls pissing]], and then being unable to pee.
*Jewish Nazis
*Rain on your wedding day
*A free ride when you've already paid
*The good advice that you just didn't take
*And who would have thought? It figures...
*[https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/31/gtaiiijack.jpg Jack Thompson's Signed Copy of GTA 3]
*Your muzzar WAS the red spy
*Mexican-Jews
*[[Ham]] on [[Jewish]] Rye
*Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of long words. [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia No fucking kidding]
*[[Ironic and Meme Rap]]
*[[Chris-Chan|This TL;DR article (and its myriad fucking subpages)]] - about a [[verbose]] [[idiot]] who makes jokes no-one else understands and lives in a fantasy-world, written and maintained by verbose idiots who actively participate in that fantasy-world and make jokes that no-one outside it can understand

==External Links==
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,3605,985375,00.html "The final irony"]
* [http://www.theendofirony.net The End of Irony]
* [http://www.meatspin.com I-Rony]

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