pretty sure the internet is just a giant language compression algorithm at this point
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but abbreviations, trend toward less punctuation, emoji etc are all part of taking the same meaning and presenting it in fewer characters
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a lot of twitter memes function w/ the same purpose. twitter memes are mostly templates, storyforms that you insert content into
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like expanding brain, broke/woke tired/wired such variants are "this is a list of things in value order"
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the american chopper one was unusually good because it was "I will present information I like" but forced you to organize it into two competing narratives
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and the "good" versions of this both narratives were equally appealing, the "bad" ones tended to use the son as a strawman because the father got the first and last word
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the stupidest forms tho are the unsophisticated ones, like the gunshot thing ("here is a problem caused by X which will then blame it on Y")
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