Bro calling people NPCs 💀
They are just commenting the same way they talk to their friends. People quote funny lines from movies right after watching or say stuff like, “Did you see that crazy stunt in the film?? He literally drove off a cliff!!” They get tons of upvotes too because people feel a connection by recounting and acknowledging what they collectively experienced. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
So much of what’s wrong with online communication is that many people speak to a public audience like they’d speak to a friend in private
You mean people getting offended because they misinterpret a friendly jab? Personally, I wish more people commented in a friendly manner. So many toxic comments out there 😬
Not the commentor but the context clues of their comments leads me to think it’s because people talk without a filter, like they would their close friends in a private conversation.
Accurate explanation, though it highlights the NPC / monkey brain level of these comments:
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Monke see comment
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Monke think same
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Dopamine released
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Click like button
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Monke happi
Which of course happens similarly IRL, but it’s less cringe as it’s just a passing verbal comment, not captured and displayed on the web for all eternity.
blud literally posted on 4chan 💀
Bro greentexted 💀
This is nothing. Wait until you hear high schoolers addressing “chat” irl while not connected to any kind of chat.
I saw people talking about that as being perhaps the first fourth-person pronoun. Pretty interesting idea.
But “chatting” also refers to talking, no?
Unless I misunderstood your comment. I tend to do that.
Edit:
talk in a friendly and informal way.
Very much so. Not sure why I needed to verify it, but I would probably verify it’s indeed 2024 if you told me that it’s actually 1786, just to make sure it’s not me thinking that.
