Séamas O'Reilly: Oscars snub commentary provides a stirring glimpse into the online mind

By the time Hillary Actual Clinton had released her own, the lamentations over Barbie – a film nominated for both Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, which has thus far earned more money than the GDP of the Seychelles – had reached dazzling levels of snubmania

Many people Margot Robbie was snubbed by the Oscars. Picture: Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP

I don't know when Oscar-watching became a mainstream sport, but we’re probably at least a decade into jargon-heavy discourse about what does and doesn’t get nominated.

For Irish people, of course, there exists a pleasing, separate subcategory of Oscar talk, related solely to how our collective sons and daughters fare on the ballot. I call this the “I see your one is doing well for herself” discourse, in honour of every time an Irish mammy or daddy has uttered some variant of those words, usually on reading that an old school friend of yours has opened a second premises for their dog grooming business, or ended up in the paper for winning Best Small Practice at the North West Region Chiropodist of the Year Awards.