I’ve repeatedly found that when I find someone annoying on Twitter, if I see a video of them for like a couple of minutes, I typically find that, oh, they just… talk like that
a lot of weird tweets are actually just bad translations
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generally speaking people are often way squishier, awkwarder, cuter, sillier, funnier on video than in text, unless they make the effort to deliberately translate all of that into the text
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mentioned to me recently that said something about how people who grew up on the internet in a specific way learned how to partly do nonverbal communication through text in a way that other people don’t by default and that resonates with me
i think you get a really strong sense of this from studying viral joke tweets. some people have gotten really good at conveying a ton of emotion and personality through word choice, misspellings, punctuation, etc etc just every available channel for expression
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I've been thinking about this in a broad umbrella theme I call "digital empathy" -- This concept definitely differs from IRL engagement manners. There's something about spacing and usage of text, and I would bet there's a lot related to vocabulary and choice of timing of reply.
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yea linguistics tumblr used to nerd out about this hard - deliberate misspellings, messing with punctuation,,, all sorts of nuance
it reduces our error/misunderstanding rate amongst each other, which allows us to coordinate better than normies think is possible
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how you structure
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Has a HUGE influence
Never simply the words
formatting has tone
EVeRYThInG from caps, to FONTS to basic default things like page length change the message 🎁
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If you want to have some fun seeing how far this “body language” can go read House of leaves!
It’s is the coolest “book” ever
Part of the story is YOU getting lost trying to read a maze of text
The same way the characters get lost in a haunted house
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The only one I’ve seen is a book called House of leaves by Mark Danielewski.
A horror novel, with words spiraling down the page, words in different colors and fonts. Giant boxes in the middle of the pages that block other text, send you down side tangents, confusing you…
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