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here where I live people make jokes about everything, ironic and unironic as well, and every major scandal or atrocity uncovered is met with the same amount of ennui BS: "meh, everybody knew about that", I really think there is a connection between the jokes and the detachment

Idk, this smacks of needless tone policing. as long as comrades show up and put the work in to fight the fascists I don't really care if they're cracking ironic jokes while they do it. Conversely there are a lot of incredibly sincere and earnest, caring people doing nothing

Is it the death of sincerity or is it just that gallows humour has taken over all interactions because it seems we’re all in the gallows?

it's possible to notice when jokes are used as cover and react appropriately, and to be sincere I don't think it has to come at the cost of mandated seriousness or making anything "sacred" I see no difficulty in deploying a joke and subsequently getting as serious/sincere as the situation demands