Thought of the day …wHy dId PeOpLe uSeD tO wRiTe LiKE tHIS iN 2012?

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it was the fad during early social media days

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ii Liike how mY typ1ng has ev0lveddd over time lmao there are deffinite phases 

I'm in another lol phase, a long one. Used to be in aha

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serious answer though and I know i'll overexplain based on personal experience.

back in the early-mid 2000's, the norm was having phones with T9 keypads (think nokia's legendary 3210 phones). These were the mainstream before iPhones and Androids 

You used to press a key to jump between abc. For example, 1 press of number 1 gets you a; 2 presses gets b; 3 presses types c.

The time in between those presses can be a small but not noticeable delay. If you wanted to type a word that had multiple of the letters from the same key, it's generally a painful experience. 

if you typed "back", you have to use number 1 and endure the delay between typing b... and a.. and c. if you type too fast and not wait, you'll cycle through a b c 1 etc. im not sure how long the delay is but it could be 1 second or more.

To bypass that delay, you only had to press the uppercase/shift key.

So it's faster to type "bAck" than "back"

It wasn't until 2010s when alternating case style was used to express something else.

[RudraCNG 14,319]

I think nobody wrote like that in 2012 anymore. It was more a 2003-2009 thing. Microsoft Messenger era.

Kinda off-topic, but it really triggers me that song titles in English Have The First Letter Of Every Word Capitalized. I swear I used to "correct" song titles in my MP3 and only capitalized the first letter of the first word.

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I remember this being used in 2020 too

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1 hour ago, Lucas said:

Us frenchiies used to wriite liike thiis f0r s0me reas0n 

I’ve never seen anyone write like that, unless it’s to make fun of someone 

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34 minutes ago, RudraCNG said:

I think nobody wrote like that in 2012 anymore. It was more a 2003-2009 thing. Microsoft Messenger era.

Kinda off-topic, but it really triggers me that song titles in English Have The First Letter Of Every Word Capitalized. I swear I used to "correct" song titles in my MP3 and only capitalized the first letter of the first word.

I haaaate when it’s not the case omg, imagine writing “Marry the night”, “Born this way” 

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9 minutes ago, A Very Gaga Holida said:

I haaaate when it’s not the case omg, imagine writing “Marry the night”, “Born this way” 

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Yeah, I still have those songs written like that  I don't do it anymore tho, bc I've become too lazy

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1 hour ago, RudraCNG said:

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Yeah, I still have those songs written like that  I don't do it anymore tho, bc I've become too lazy

Black Jesus + amen fashion  COME ON NOW

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1 hour ago, RudraCNG said:

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Yeah, I still have those songs written like that  I don't do it anymore tho, bc I've become too lazy

Imagine being an Arianator tho

She posts everything in lowercase 

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1 hour ago, RudraCNG said:

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Yeah, I still have those songs written like that  I don't do it anymore tho, bc I've become too lazy

That's making me itch 

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3 hours ago, Red said:

2012? More like 2006-ish

oNlY tHe oG aka rEaL pLaYeRs 

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Reminds me of the Metroflog days. Oh God, the cringe  I never got it. Like, it’s so much easier to use correct spelling. I guess social media was very new to us at the time and we didn’t know how we were supposed to act. 

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This originates from 90s actually

 

The 90s had a lot of experimental type that represented breaking tradition with the past and embracing the new "digital" age (and digital typesetting)

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18 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Remember when it was written as Gaga during early Fame era? 

Your Ga-Ga being autocorrected to Gaga is so