Yesterday I found someone who says “question mark” after every question and has apparently forgotten how to inflect their voice to express tone. It was horrifying, but I realized I’m not that different. I immediately think “cringe” or “based” at many things. Even when I’m not terminally online everything I hear gets put on a meme template by my brain. I’m having trouble expressing tone/emotion in writing without visual indicators like emojis or “/s.” I know I’m not alone, what do we do?
To be clear, I don’t mean it all in engaging with others. I’ve never heard the word used in an insulting way, just in the way people ask Siri to send messages with. It is scary. I do deconstruct what people say and think of them as fools sometimes, but usually I just mean based or cringe as in “I like or don’t like that thing/aspect.”
I don’t think the meme thing is very helpful, considering there are better ways I can and do think, and whatever I come up with isn’t that funny.
I think there is a bit of a limit on short form text, but people seem to have been able to express emotion better in the past idk. Also, that video keeps showing up in my recommended.