Teens adopt “typing quirks” on forums as a form of self expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing quirks make their way into inappropriate contexts, such as extended discussions and flame wars, and become a laughing stock\/sign of annoying person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing quirks become socially unacceptable and mostly die out, their self expression function replaced by things like post formatting and decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s it for a while. Until.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Extremely popular multimedia webcomic Homestuck implements typing quirks into it’s narrative, for the effect of depicting annoying teens expressing themselves. This is a fine implementation and serves the narrative for its intended effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Homestuck fans adopt “typing quirks” on social media as a form of fandom and self expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing quirks make their way into inappropriate contexts, such as discourse and callouts, and become a laughing stock\/sign of annoying person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing quirks don’t die out, as they are a sign of fandom and their is no other Homestuck-fan equivalent to replace them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People unfamiliar with Homestuck, who see typing quirks out of context, go “hey that’s cool” and join in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Typing quirks, unfortunately, return.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Conclusion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is an alternative timeline where typing quirks died 20 years ago, no popular webcomic brought them back and nobody remembers them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Seeing typing quirks making the jump to video as speech affects in Tiktoks is, to put it nicely, bizarre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Post formatting persists to this day and remains freaking epic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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