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by kortex 1902 days ago
It's not "infantilizing," it's linguistic mutation, and it's what languages do [0], for all manner of reasons. Text lacks intonation, plain text even more so, and internet dialect tends to evolve ways to add emphasis. In this case "pupper" is inflected to suggest endearment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimm%27s_law