In an article about the decline of the "guilty pleasure" - in which she insists there is no such thing so it can't be in decline in the first place - Paige at Flux-Rad writes:

Liking things for irony’s sake is a complete waste of time, a total trivialization of the chance you’ve been given as a human to experience art and culture, and does little more than confirm your position as a simple-minded elitist masquerading as purveyor of good taste by acceptance of bad.