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Transcript

00:01

We speak student!

00:05

[ yodeling ]

00:07

Reality TV Part 11

00:09

Ironic Consumption

00:12

[ dog barks ]

00:13

What is ironic consumption?

00:15

The easiest way to think about this is

00:18

the idea of a hipster who wears an ironic t-shirt, right?

00:20

We always talk about hipsters and their ironic t-shirts.

00:22

Because they have a picture of something

00:26

that no one likes on it

00:27

and they're just wearing it ironically.

00:29

They don't actually think it's cool,

00:31

but they're wearing it anyway.

00:33

That's what ironic consumption is.

00:34

It's when you watch a TV show -

00:37

in this case a TV show -

00:38

and you're watching it because it's bad.

00:41

[ burp ]

00:42

You aren't watching it because you enjoy it.

00:44

You're watching it because it's bad,

00:45

and then you can say,

00:47

"You won't even believe what I watch."

00:48

Probably like you and I with The Bachelor.

00:50

- Yeah, because it's terrible. - Right?

00:51

- Where we're just like, "Oh, we love" -- - Shit.

00:53

- Exactly. We love to talk about how bad it is. - Yes.

00:55

That's ironic consumption.

00:57

[ pen writing ]

00:59

What is ironic consumption?

01:03

[ inhale ]

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