[hungryforcodes]

Definition: "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result"

A YouTube vblog calling itself two minute papers seems pretty ironic to me. The word "papers" is key here.

[satvikpendem]

It discusses papers in two minutes, not sure how that's ironic at all, unless you are deliberately expecting that a YouTube channel somehow has written papers rather than videos. These papers would also take one longer than two minutes to read and might not have context from someone in the field, so I'm happy for the expert to go over it for me.

[hungryforcodes]

Two minute papers-- but they are videos.

I feel like I am repeating myself.

Definition of irony...

[satvikpendem]

Just because two things sound odd doesn't mean there is anything ironic about it. I could also name my YouTube channel something like Full Orchestral Performances but have them be videos and not music. That's not the definition of irony, but I don't think me explaining it further will make you understand what irony is.

[hungryforcodes]

This is a false analogy though. If you had a YouTube channel called Two Minute Full Orchestral Performances I would expect Full Orchestral Performances of two minutes, basically a musical performance.

Since we consume either articles (which are often rated as "This will take you 3 minutes to read") or video, the title is deceiving. Particularly as someone who finds consuming information infuriatingly slow in videos, and prefer to read or scan articles, I find it has a sense of irony to it.