Likely yes. Gretchen McCulloch has a book called Because Internet which talks about how the internet has changed English. People joined the internet in differe

Likely yes. Gretchen McCulloch has a book called Because Internet which talks about how the internet has changed English. People joined the internet in different waves. Each group of had the challenge of re-inventing writing conventions for the writing that falls outside of the relatively formal academic/business writing taught in highschool. For the people were using a cellphone with autocorrect was a significant part of their internet usage, uncapitalization became a way to indicate casual tone. Since autocorrect would capitalize for you, it was clear that the lower case letters weren't the result of you being lazy. Instead you were going back to deliberately undo the capitalization of the word. So yes, it is probably a youth thing and it's done to indicate a casual tone. [0] - https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/ https://gretchenmcculloch.com/book/