Trendmongering

One way or another, you've got to write a lead-in to your article, but it should still make sense.  Here's how Dennis Harvey starts his Variety review of The Ren & Stimpy Story:

For many the 1990s were the Age of Irony, with hipster cultural touchstones like Spy magazine and the TV show "Strangers With Candy" helping make snark the preferred flavor of the day.

Hmm.  First let's take Strangers With Candy.  For one thing, I wouldn't call it a cultural touchstone.  But even if it was, it only ran from 1999 to 2000, with most of its episodes airing in 2000, so it's hot the greatest representative of the 1990s.

Then there's Spy magazine.  Maybe it can be called a cultural touchstone, but it started publishing in 1986, and I'd say its glory years were the early ones.

Furthermore, Spy wasn't particularly ironic.  Satire, yes, but irony? In fact, their March 1989 cover story was "Isn't It Ironic?" and featured Chevy Chase making air quotes.  They were complaining, not celebrating, that the 1980s were an ironic age.  So Harvey is off both substantively and chronologically.