Re:I'm Just Having Fun
by bluedel on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:38AM
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the lack of capitalization (and occasional omission of punctuation) was already a big thing on tumblr / twitter 10 years ago, especially in some anime and LGBT-adjacent spaces. I don't think jyn got it from Sam Altman, and I don't think he had that big a role in popularizing it.
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It was a thing 25 years ago already in SMS and IM.
Re:I'm Just Having Fun
by monerozcash on Monday December 22, 2025 @08:38AM
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Before smartphones, it seems to have been the standard for just about every form of instant messaging. Well, morse has no capitalization and telex would typically have been uppercase-only too, but I think we can still count those?
I suspect that this is just something that happens naturally, for shorter-format messaging typing in sentence case probably offers no added readability and tends to get dropped over time.