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Reality TV : Ironic Consumption 246 Views
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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 ]
Full Transcript
- 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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