Strange to label a failure to capitalize words as a "dumb social media trend", as I'm sure people have been doing that for many years prior to social media.
And nobody tYpEs lIkE tHiS except when making a joke.
> as I'm sure people have been doing that for many years prior to social media.
But now it’s happening more frequently. That’s what “trend” means. It doesn’t mean it never happened before.
> And nobody tYpEs lIkE tHiS except when making a joke.
Just because you don’t know people like that, does not mean they don’t exist. The world is bigger than one person’s knowledge. I personally knew several teenagers who did it for all their communication, before smartphones. The speed at which they were able to do it was astounding.
What do you mean by "before" social media here? Surely not handwritten or typewritered letters, I guess you mean like 2005-2010ish?
The term wasn't popular then but with reddit's and Facebook's infancies being twenty years ago, "social media" (which I understand to refer to platforms where you can talk to people and post things about different topics, so broader and more person-oriented than an SMF forum but narrower than the WWW) have been around for a while
The first time I saw lowercase writing like this was two years ago on the Discord guild/community of a game which got popular on tiktok. I don't know the average age but the (statistical) mode was probably in the range of 13–16
It’s not a failure, it’s a conscious choice.
> as I'm sure people have been doing that for many years prior to social media.
But now it’s happening more frequently. That’s what “trend” means. It doesn’t mean it never happened before.
> And nobody tYpEs lIkE tHiS except when making a joke.
Just because you don’t know people like that, does not mean they don’t exist. The world is bigger than one person’s knowledge. I personally knew several teenagers who did it for all their communication, before smartphones. The speed at which they were able to do it was astounding.