I Don't Understand Lil B

There are very few things that I consider myself respectably well-versed in. Really it's probably about three things: Detroit Tigers baseball, sitcoms, and hip-hop. But as much as I love hip-hop there is something that I don't understand on any level, and that thing is the popularity of the rapper Lil B. His music is unfathomably weird, and not in some avant garde way, no I understand and at times really dig avant garde hip-hop (Shabazz Palaces, DOOM, J Dilla, etc.), but this is Dadist if anything, and I hate Dadism. He yells the word "SWAG" after almost every sentence, makes songs about  how he looks like Miley Cyrus, or Jesus, or how he's the "based god." And the internet loves him. But how does these relate to the study of Media Theory? Well Lil B is the perfect case study for the awful trend of internet "irony." This sense of meta humor, and pretending to enjoy things because they are so ridiculous has gone too far, and Lil B is proof of this. I don't know if people really like him, or they just thing that he's ridiculous so they listen to his music for a laugh. I honestly don't know, and I don't know if the people who "enjoy" his music either. This same trend has come to movies recently as well. Is the latest Jason Statham vehicle a parody of action movies, or is it really just that bad, and why do people not seem to care? At the start of every song or movie, people should be required by law to state if this work was intended to be a serious effort, I should never not know if something is parody or reality. And I blame this all on the cynicism of some corners of the internet.