[smegsicle]

studies show that kids these days interpret texts ending in a period as passive aggressive or something

[jwells89]

In a similar vein, ending with an ellipsis (…), while used by many to indicate thought, consideration, or other sort of pause in speech often comes across to younger readers as a sort of passive aggressiveness or shortness of patience.

[Gigachad]

Surely it’s always meant that. It’s just a long pause.

I’d think something like “are you serious…” would be pretty universally understood.

[astrange]

It's interpreted as old person, because there's a class of boomer that ends all their sentences with … and then puts them in the middle of half of them too.

[jareklupinski]

and just when you think you've solved the ellipses and fullstop, someone comes along and hits you with the:

  ..

[hoosieree]

Aerodynamic semicolon.

[hoosieree]

And the plain smile emoji is either a normal amount of happiness, or a malicious serial killer dead-eyes rictus.

:)

[lwhi]

It's called full-stopping.

[elcritch]

Sure.

[dtech]

ok.

[lxgr]

Capitalization at the beginning of your sentence would have made for an even more dramatic effect ;)

[smegsicle]

calm down bro it's just what i heard

[kQq9oHeAz6wLLS]

“I’m responsible only for what I say, not what you understand.” – John Wayne