Blog/2026-07-10/It's not that deep

AutoDescriptor: Added categories via AutoDescriptor bot Teenagers have always been reflexively "too cool to care". But now, contemporary media also adopts this reflexive detachment to its own detriment<ref name=teens/>. When Joss Whedon popularized the "moment of gravitas; silent beat; ironic comment" technique, it was perhaps novel, but now it s everywhere and often inappropriately so. Julie and…