[thawawaycold]

imho it was definitely popular before and altman adopted it to fit in with the online crowd

[monerozcash]

sama writing like that is not a new thing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000015

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=59004

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15 (from literally the first HN thread ever)

Also, it's perhaps somewhat hilarious to suggest that someone who has been chronically online for decades has to do anything to "fit in"

He writes as people who grew up on IRC and similar platforms tend to.

[thawawaycold]

oh okay, I shouldn't have judged that so haphazardly. thx for the references