It's not sarcasm, it's sarcastic voice. I discovered this when moving to Seattle. People would use the voice and think it's funny. Meanwhile, Idaho has no meaning, and was made up just to get things cleared for statehood.
The absence of strong male role models, testosterone and discipline, and the effect of HR departments attacking people for honest language in professional environments.
Nowadays many people communicate like passive aggressive cowardly faggots.
Because men are the only ones who can save Western civilization. Conquering armies used to castrate the sons of their vanquished enemies to make them slaves. Make Grug think.
Unaware of what year it was, Joe wandered the streets desperate for help. But the English language had deteriorated into a hybrid of hillbilly, valleygirl, inner-city slang and various grunts. Joe was able to understand them, but when he spoke in an ordinary voice he sounded pompous and faggy to them.
Uptalk. Instant sign of brainrot and it—of course—originated in California.
The other instant give away is vocal fry. That’s when women get this kind of gravelly tone to their voice, and it’s often combined with uptalk.
Interestingly, both uptalk and vocal fry originated among women, but have been widely adopted amongst liberal men too. Tbf, it does cross political boundaries, but it’s most accentuated and seen as a high status trait in both male and female lefties.
It originated with valley girls iirc. Women of all ages and voting patterns use it. Oddly, it seems to be used by skinny chicks who consider themselves smart most often.
Normies have been talking like this for ages. It started with the females speaking valley girl, then the men, lacking male role models follow those women. And its not only libs. Republicans talk like that too.
They've been infantilizing language for a long time.
The recent most obnoxious one I heard was that if someone talks near you and what you hear is offensive, you're supposed to say oof. And if they acknowledge it, they say ouch. Or some shit like that.
Instead of using language as intended, they invent ways to be offended and obnoxious.
In my opinion my generation the millennials are by enlarge suffering from arrested development. Too many live in a bubble and pampered life that entitlement has become a chief personality.
It’s more widespread than just leftists. Plenty of right wing or a-political men who are obsessed with plastic toys, capeshit hero movies, etc., into their 40s and beyond.
They were never "with it." They're just weak tools who go along with Popular Thing because it's popular. We saw it with "gamers are losers lol" -> "gaming is for everyone XD" -> "how do we get rid of toxic people in the gaming community?"
Speaking of PhDs, it seems like you have to have one for your opinion to be valid.
"How do you know he's not a woman; do you have a degree in biology?" "How do you know that guy is innocent? Do you have a law degree?" "You obviously don't know what a good video game is because you don't have a degree in game design."
Apparently being a redditor or wikipedia editor lets you bypass all that if you embrace the "modern message."
People are stupider than a generation ago. Conservatives too, Trump popularized this juvenile kickball court style of communication and now it's like the only way to reach people.
Did you just coin "kickball court" in this context or did you pick that up from somewhere? If you made it up then I am impressed with your metaphoric mojo.
Off the dome, I was trying to convey both schoolyard tough guy posturing and childish simple mindedness. The whole culture is just anti intellectual now,.Right and Left. It's been 10 years since I successfully engaged a stranger in any real language and with any insight. Most political conversations now, either team, are just sighs and grumbles until someone loses their cool, turns red and becomes Alex Jones or Rachel Maddow.
...now?!
Yeah, I struggle to remember a time when they didn't talk like this.
A direct line from Jon Stewart, to John Oliver, to the "um yikes sweaty let's unpack this" meme
More so now. The language has more snarky, childish words now where as pre-2000 you still had to be pretentious using adult words and insults
Liberals called themselves "The Enlightenment".
I feel like even the good ones were doing this for a while now. At least 250 years.
I blame pedo face Colbert. More than anyone he's responsible for millennials mistaking sarcasm and snark for actual wit.
It's not sarcasm, it's sarcastic voice. I discovered this when moving to Seattle. People would use the voice and think it's funny. Meanwhile, Idaho has no meaning, and was made up just to get things cleared for statehood.
If anyone carries that burden, it's John Stewart.
I’ve always called it twitter speak. They talk like they only have 160 characters to work with and everything has to be a clap back.
The absence of strong male role models, testosterone and discipline, and the effect of HR departments attacking people for honest language in professional environments.
Nowadays many people communicate like passive aggressive cowardly faggots.
Because men are the only ones who can save Western civilization. Conquering armies used to castrate the sons of their vanquished enemies to make them slaves. Make Grug think.
Idiocracy said it first.
More annoying? Is when they end every sentence? With a high inflection? As if everything’s a question?
It’s really fuckin irritating?
Uptalk. Instant sign of brainrot and it—of course—originated in California.
The other instant give away is vocal fry. That’s when women get this kind of gravelly tone to their voice, and it’s often combined with uptalk.
Interestingly, both uptalk and vocal fry originated among women, but have been widely adopted amongst liberal men too. Tbf, it does cross political boundaries, but it’s most accentuated and seen as a high status trait in both male and female lefties.
It originated with valley girls iirc. Women of all ages and voting patterns use it. Oddly, it seems to be used by skinny chicks who consider themselves smart most often.
Normies have been talking like this for ages. It started with the females speaking valley girl, then the men, lacking male role models follow those women. And its not only libs. Republicans talk like that too.
They've been infantilizing language for a long time.
The recent most obnoxious one I heard was that if someone talks near you and what you hear is offensive, you're supposed to say oof. And if they acknowledge it, they say ouch. Or some shit like that.
Instead of using language as intended, they invent ways to be offended and obnoxious.
Americans saying "ooof" is like over a hundred years old and a regular social thing in NY and east coast Italian cities anyway
It sounds like they're saying egg in French.
In my opinion my generation the millennials are by enlarge suffering from arrested development. Too many live in a bubble and pampered life that entitlement has become a chief personality.
It’s more widespread than just leftists. Plenty of right wing or a-political men who are obsessed with plastic toys, capeshit hero movies, etc., into their 40s and beyond.
I like this article and I'd like to subscribe to this guy's newsletter.
Same. It's a long read, but it's worth it.
the internet has been a double-edged sword in many ways...
Its the fear of becoming old and not "with it" anymore, lel.
They were never "with it." They're just weak tools who go along with Popular Thing because it's popular. We saw it with "gamers are losers lol" -> "gaming is for everyone XD" -> "how do we get rid of toxic people in the gaming community?"
Speaking of PhDs, it seems like you have to have one for your opinion to be valid.
"How do you know he's not a woman; do you have a degree in biology?" "How do you know that guy is innocent? Do you have a law degree?" "You obviously don't know what a good video game is because you don't have a degree in game design."
Apparently being a redditor or wikipedia editor lets you bypass all that if you embrace the "modern message."
People are stupider than a generation ago. Conservatives too, Trump popularized this juvenile kickball court style of communication and now it's like the only way to reach people.
Did you just coin "kickball court" in this context or did you pick that up from somewhere? If you made it up then I am impressed with your metaphoric mojo.
Off the dome, I was trying to convey both schoolyard tough guy posturing and childish simple mindedness. The whole culture is just anti intellectual now,.Right and Left. It's been 10 years since I successfully engaged a stranger in any real language and with any insight. Most political conversations now, either team, are just sighs and grumbles until someone loses their cool, turns red and becomes Alex Jones or Rachel Maddow.