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Re:Fun is Dead by tempodox on Sunday December 24, 2023 @03:59AM (#38752243)
> “I feel like I should be having more fun than I’m actually having,” says Alyssa Alvarez, a social media marketing manager and DJ in Detroit, expressing a sentiment that many share. “There are expectations of what I want people to believe that my life is like rather than what my life is actually like.”

There is a deep irony in having a social media marketing manager say these things.

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Re:Fun is Dead by drewcoo on Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:17AM (#38754441)
That's entirely appropriate.

Did the definition of irony change, too?

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Re:Fun is Dead by willsoon on Sunday December 24, 2023 @11:45AM (#38754664)
In other languages, irony is saying one word for another. Basically, you can stretch the meaning. In English, it seems to mean something different: a fuzzy oxymoron-like thing. If this is wrong, sorry, not a native English speaker here.
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Re:Fun is Dead by namaria on Monday December 25, 2023 @04:20AM (#38761089)
Irony went from 'sarcasm based humor' to 'humorously coincidental' in colloquial english.
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Re:Fun is Dead by Beldin on Sunday December 24, 2023 @04:26PM (#38757003)
No, appropriate would be if she made a professional observation about her field. A professional realising they're personally doing "their" thing wrong - from a professional point of view at least - is indeed ironic.
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