I'm perfectly fine with a more casual tone but I think plenty of authors are conflating conversational writing with being "hip" by peppering the text with inter

I'm perfectly fine with a more casual tone but I think plenty of authors are conflating conversational writing with being "hip" by peppering the text with internet lingo. There are also bloggers and substackers who utilize one-line asides to great effect. But maybe I'm just a cranky old man and this is what the audience likes nowadays.