Post-irony (from the Latin, post- "after"[1], and Ancient Greek εἰρωνεία eirōneía, meaning dissimulation or feigned ignorance)[2] is a term alternately used to connote a return from irony to earnestness, or more commonly, a state in which earnest and ironic intents become muddled.
Examples of post-ironic artwork include South African band Die Antwoord, and the Werner Herzog film Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.[3]
While this term has become increasingly popular[4], the idea of post-irony is not without its detractors:
...there are a number of misconceptions about irony that are peculiar to recent times....the eighth is that "post-ironic" is an acceptable term - it is very modish to use this, as if to suggest one of three things: i) that irony has ended; ii) that postmodernism and irony are interchangeable, and can be conflated into one handy word; or iii) that we are more ironic than we used to be, and therefore need to add a prefix suggesting even greater ironic distance than irony on its own can supply. None of these things is true.
—Zoe Williams, The Guardian