I’ve noticed in the last year or so it has sky rocketed in popularity.
The word “ironic” might be the most abused word in the English language and “unironic” is often used in reference to an incorrect usage. Ironic is not a synonym for sarcasm and it has a precise meaning.
Another problem I have is that many times it’s unnecessary. You can often omit the word and nothing is lost. There is also a clear alternative in “sincere” or “genuine”. To use a negation when there’s a more common, clear alternative isn’t eloquent.
It has become a filler word, something you would add as if you were a student writing a paper trying to fulfill a word minimum. One of the first few responses would have been, “I unironically disagree”. This isn’t clever and it’s an example of a usage where it being omitted doesn’t lose clarity. Stop using it where it’s obvious that you are being sincere.
I don’t mind when it’s used in an apt and precise way, but that’s the minority of cases these days. I’m not a fan of how “literally” and “humbled” is being used now either, but that’s a different story.
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Bandwagon effect, I guess. You see it a lot here with different things.
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“Literally” is the worst. I can’t think of a more misused word in English right now than that one.
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I’ve just never seen the value in worrying too much about this stuff. Language is really flexible and there’s not much someone can do to stop the natural ways our word usage grow and change.
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I haven’t noticed. The only thing I noticed it how popular “gaslighting” has become.
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The problem is that in an online format, it is often difficult for one to properly emphasize certain statements. There’s this sort of “intelligence gap” online where some people just don’t know how to properly read and mentally process content and so words like this need to exist to say “actually, this bit is important”.
It’s akin to when you had to feed new-line and carriage-return characters through to a “unthinking” machine, only you’re dealing with an “unthinking” person. Saying something that is a hyperbole is “literally true” pulls in attention in a way that otherwise might be glossed over.
Some point during the post irony era of general internet culture.
Or the post-post irony era.
Or after that.
I dunno.
I also see cringe here a lot. Used as a adjective. And a noun.
Because sincerity is often mocked, yet contrarianism is still in vogue. Thus, “unironically” supporting something that you sincerely enjoy, even if said thing is not currently popular, is popular. Which is ironic in itself.
You’re just imagining that.
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There is a person on these forums that drops this in LITERALLY every post she makes.
Is it ironic that I used 'literally"? 
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No, irony is when the opposite of what you would expect happens, for example, a firearms safety instructor accidentally shooting themselves.
2014-2016 internet / gamer speak.
That’s when.
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…Or when someone is complaining about an over used buzzword and uses an overused buzzword during their complaint? 
Isnt that the opposite of what you would expect?
What’s the overused buzzword I used? The complaint isn’t the overuse, it’s the misuse.
Well represent something that’s non defined. Magic creature that is not horde, not cow , or deer. Basically it can be whatever it feels like to be. And of cita always followed by rainbows 
I don’t know I’m more of 4 horsemen fan and Pegasus.
No… I was the one who used an overused buzzword in my compliant about someone using an over used buzzword. I asked if that was ironic.
You said
I said,
pointing out that i was guilty.
NM!
Oh, yeah I guess I could see it that way.
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