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I don’t think it’s only AI influencers that do this. I’ve noticed people use lowercase as some sort of power move. Like they’re so busy and important they don’t
by ra7 2y ago
I don’t think it’s only AI influencers that do this. I’ve noticed people use lowercase as some sort of power move. Like they’re so busy and important they don’t care about conventions.
- fragmede 2y agoit's because the stupidphone's stupid keyboard capitalizes for you in the wrong places, and you have to take extra effort to fix it when they get it wrong, or you turn it off, and then get lazy about fixing it when you do need the capitalization.
- ra7 2y agoDoes it? When I start a message, the keyboard automatically capitalizes. It also does it when a sentence starts after a period. I rarely ever have to fix capitalization. (I typed this from my phone)
- HaZeust 2y agoI get incorrectly capitalized one in every 250 times the keyboard is used, I'd imagine.
- poszlem 2y agoI think you are correct. It's a status symbol at this point. It's the digital version of "inconspicuous consumption" [1]. [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/inconspicuous-consumption/306845/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/inconsp...
- elevatedastalt 2y agoNo, this is a status symbol because it's a signal that these people are above norms of conventional society. What's worse is that there's a ready line of journalists talking about how capital letters promote inequality or shit like that providing coverfire for them.
- flembat 2y agoI think it is because people are often typing onto a sheet of glass on a packed train..
- elevatedastalt 2y agoThe software on that sheet of glass actually automatically capitalizes the first letter of every sentence. You have to go out of your way to produce the sort of text you see in sama's tweets. That's what makes it so egregious.
- achiandet 2y agoIt's certainly a modern status symbol that can be seen as a power move.
- a_bonobo 2y agoSo common in academia! The student writes a detailed, error-checked, well-edited long email only to receive an answer like 'yes plaese Sent from my iPhone' Definitely a 'I'm very busy look at me' powermove
- hehdhdjehehegwv 2y agoActually they probably are that busy and aren’t trying to impress students, they’re trying to grade a bunch of exams while reviewing a paper while writing up research while writing a grant and also having a personal life.
- somenameforme 2y agoAnd if they treat them all with this degree of attention, then they're probably failing at all of them.
- dragonwriter 2y agoThe grant writing and (supervising the work of the people performing and writing up) the research funded by the grants that will also be the basis on which they will secure future grants get more attention, obviously.
- hehdhdjehehegwv 2y agoMany, perhaps most, successful academics are horrible mentors and parents/spouses. That isn’t pertinent to the fact that all faculty are, in fact, quite busy.
- huygens6363 2y agonah i dontt hnk so Sent from my iPhone
- spot5010 2y agoIronically, if you just kept the default keyboard settings on your phone, it will capitalize words for you. So these people changes the default settings to create this impression?
- parineum 2y agoI turn that stuff off because I don't like my keyboard automatically doing things for me.
- nickzelei 2y agoThey might be sending messages on a laptop which doesn’t have that turned on by default.
- a_wild_dandan 2y agoI disabled it for being annoying and frequently wrong. The idea that someone might interpret my laziness as a flex (or vise versa) is hilarious to me.
- HaZeust 2y agoIt also appears softer and borderline condescending. I always thought it was feminine because I've only seen women do it before very recently.
- dvaun 2y agoIt’s pretty common in chatrooms, forums, etc. Been commonplace for at least two decades.
- filleduchaos 2y agoLowercase typing is broadly informal and (historically) faster (autocorrect especially on mobile devices was terrible for longer than it has been any good). Anything else people read into it is very often just projection.
- hehdhdjehehegwv 2y ago…or capitalization is not really that important for conveying meaning.
- dustincoates 2y agoSomething similar I've noticed--there's a certain level people reach within a company where they're now too busy to type out "thank you" or even "thanks." Now "thx" is all they have time for.
- tivert 2y ago> Something similar I've noticed--there's a certain level people reach within a company where they're now too busy to type out "thank you" or even "thanks." Now "thx" is all they have time for. "thx" is way to verbose for anyone but a plebs, the real power brokers use "ty." Or they don't thank anyone at all, because they know just bothering to read the message they got is thanks enough.