Irony Poisoning isn't Ironic

 This picture used to be a good joke.

 https://twitter.com/Venuswhacker/status/1833356989990064471

 It was all like, "Haha! You were so serious about decorating this, and then I put a cartoon character in it!" And apparently a beheaded-hitler hookah, um, lol or whatever. 

 The folk doing the decor took themselves so seriously it was a joke all by itself, merely needing a slight nudge to bring it to the fore.
 There's supposed to be a second layer, going all, "But what if I can like cartoons and infinite detailing?" Merely combining two good things, except some can't appreciate the one or the other, and get extremely shrill for no reason.

 What's actually going on is spiritual exhaustion on both sides. The folk taking the decor so seriously were doing it to hide the fact they didn't genuinely take anything seriously. The folk joking about cartoons are in fact dead inside, and trying to hide that.

 The decor is nouveau riche. Those lampshades are cheap cheap cheap trying to look expensive. The effect on the shadows would be nice if a) it wasn't a blurry mess and b) you would 100% would get glared by the bulbs from certain angles. The lamp is not in fact shaded.
 As you might guess, spaghetti sauce is supposed to taste good to the tongue, not the eyes. Goes on food, not walls. It's detailed so it looks expensive, so you Envy whoever can make it, and they forgot about skillful aesthetics, or rather, never knew what they were in the first place. WTF is that thing awkwardly pasted against the corner? 

 BTW spongebob isn't real and was never funny. Cartoon by NPCs, for NPCs. Ghosts who keep speaking because they haven't realized they're already dead. You only try to put hitler in anything precisely because you're told to. It's reverse psychology, and [[mocking]] it is already giving it more gravitas than it deserves.

 

 If your reverence is real and substantial, then it doesn't matter how many losers make a le funny joke about it. It merely looks childish, which is adorable if they're yours and annoying if they're street urchins, but in neither case does it matter.  

 What is the true root of modern minimalism? Trying to get through middle school without being made fun of. If the bullies have nothing to latch onto...so the thinking goes. It's not wholly deranged: the [public] should not have access to your sanctuaries. There's supposed to be somewhere you can let your guard down, where only trusted allies go. If it's going to be public it shouldn't be sincere, it should be castle-wall aesthetic.

 For irreverancy to be a funny joke, the reverence has to already be a joke. At best, the reverence is in fact someone defending the indefensible. Imagine someone made a le funny joke about not murdering your own six-year-olds. That's not black humour, that's indisputably resentment. The above joke image doesn't look the same, but that's because your optics are damaged. It actually does look the same to clear eyes.

 For irreverancy to be a funny joke, somebody has to be reverent in the first place. Can't be irony-poisoned when you're already dead of another poison.