Yesterday I found someone who says “question mark” after every question and has apparently forgotten how to inflect their voice to express tone. It was horrifying, but I realized I’m not that different. I immediately think “cringe” or “based” at many things. Even when I’m not terminally online everything I hear gets put on a meme template by my brain. I’m having trouble expressing tone/emotion in writing without visual indicators like emojis or “/s.” I know I’m not alone, what do we do?
Please tell me this isn’t real. There is no way someone can suffer from so much internet brainrot.
Sadly it’s true. I’ve heard others do it, but they correct themselves unlike this person.
I pray for this to be an anglo custom that will never reach our shores. How do you even read a question and not inflict your voice inside your head? How do you even develop the custom of thinking and then saying out loud “question mark” instead of doing it the proper way?
It’s one thing to think online stuff, but verbally speaking the word “question mark”, with no tone or inflection, is a whole different level
Of course all of us have at least once said something like “lol” or “lmao” out loud but this is far beyond what it takes for one to be told to touch grass.
I say “shrug” sometimes IRL, but that’s about it
That’s silly, personally I go “smh my head” sometimes.
At leasr do it on the HK-47 style smh