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
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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
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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For example, I have at least 3-4 voices I use in digital spaces: Conversational (this one), Professional Takes, Professional 'Work', Shitposting, etc.
In some cases I'm aware of it,,, but in other situations not so much. It has become an unconscious pattern of reaction.
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