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My guess is it’s meant to come off as more authentic and conversational, like an informal chat.
by Forgeties79 1y ago
My guess is it’s meant to come off as more authentic and conversational, like an informal chat.
- rmccue 1y agoIt's often used as a tone signifier: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-capital-letters-why-gen-z-loves-lowercase https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-cap...
- happytoexplain 1y agoYeah, I suspect that's the intention. There's a definitely a cultural break. To me, lowercase creates a casual tone in texts/chat. But in long form, especially published (i.e. purposefully displayed to an audience), it sends me a tone of disinterest or laziness at worst; or at best, simple innocent ignorance/mistakenness (like misspelling). Clearly neither is the case here though.
- Forgeties79 1y agooh yeah i definitely agree! the tone communication can be useful but in longform writing it gets very grating and confusing/distracting. it's also just more social engineering to pretend to be authentic when one is clearly not. i prefer this type of writing for comedy generally