The English does read like the author learned it as an academic exercise, albeit one that was not fully reinforced by immersion in the spoken language (which would also rule out Japanese-American, unless isolated in a Japanese-speaking community for the entirety of the author's formative years).
The other possibility I see is that the author's exposure to proper English was only in schooling, and exposure to 'normal' English was so highly informal and devoid of proper vocabulary, grammar, and spelling that it is useless in persuasive writing, the author knows this, and is choosing words and sentence structure based on an external conception of what more formal language ought to be.
This possibility would imply the post was written with a high level of effort and mixed levels of competence, but the degree of effort put into facts (one anime from 1998, two easily found on the front page of Reddit today, one recent event twisted to suit the narrative), suggests that this was a low-effort article, not a high-effort one.
I'm confused by the possibilities, so I'm going to go with a trans-racial troon using OpenGPT as my theory. Sure, the odds are against me, but the payout is good.
The English does read like the author learned it as an academic exercise, albeit one that was not fully reinforced by immersion in the spoken language (which would also rule out Japanese-American, unless isolated in a Japanese-speaking community for the entirety of the author's formative years).
The other possibility I see is that the author's exposure to proper English was only in schooling, and exposure to 'normal' English was so highly informal and devoid of proper vocabulary, grammar, and spelling that it is useless in persuasive writing, the author knows this, and is choosing words and sentence structure based on an external conception of what more formal language ought to be.
This possibility would imply the post was written with a high level of effort and mixed levels of competence, but the degree of effort put into facts (one anime from 1998, two easily found on the front page of Reddit today, one recent event twisted to suit the narrative), suggests that this was a low-effort article, not a high-effort one.
I'm confused by the possibilities, so I'm going to go with a trans-racial troon using OpenGPT as my theory. Sure, the odds are against me, but the payout is good.