>>47990611I'm 25, and I was lurking back when those images were popular. You seem to misconstrue parodying something with being ironic. Parody and irony are not mutually interchangeable. You can parody something sincerely or ironically, and those were sincere. People actually thought they were funny and cool at the time, and tried to emulate them, like with demotivationals, or Troll/Rage face, or Chuck Norris jokes, or etc.
