Is this a subversion, a lampshading, or both?

[robkelk]

http://www.dorktower.com/2010/07/21/dor ... y-21-2010/]Today's Dork Tower has a couple of characters we haven't seen for a few years...

Is Gilly subverting or lampshading the trope? (Or both?) Must use the correct term over on TVTropes...
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[Ankhani]

Well, I don't really do trope-speak, but I'd say that's somewhere between Genre Savvy, and Breaking the 4th Wall. Likely more Lampshaded than subverted, I think.
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Definitely Breaking the Fourth Wall.
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