Something that has bothered me since the dawn of mainstream internet adoption: the need to reinforce that you’re stating your opinion. I shouldn’t have to say “I don’t personally like Pearl Jam, I think they’re trash, but that’s my opinion”. I should just be able to say “Pearl Jam sucks.” and based on the fact that there is no objective measure of musical quality one could imply that this is a statement of my personal opinion because I’m the person who fucking said it. Certain assertions are categorically opinion and not fact and the inability or unwillingness to perform this very basic form of reading comprehension seems lost as soon as someone is online.
That’s something people do in real life too, it’s not an internet thing. It’s a being courteous thing and indicating that you respect other people’s opinions to the contrary.
A lot less and this is partially due to it being an internet thing for 20 years
I can say with full confidence that Train objectively sucks. Its not only my opinion, it’s the correct take.
“So gangsta, I’m so thug” shit lyrics from a shit artist.
There’s bands and stuff I don’t like, but Train makes me angry in like not a fun listening to punk way but like, I’m mad at the song kinda way
MauLer ruined objectivity/subjectivity for everybody
I remember this in like 2002
True & understandable, I think Long Man is the first time I’ve seen someone stretch and rend the definitions of those concepts in public though.
Does the interweb just make people unreasonable, then? Anonymity etc?
I think early on it was a bunch of people who hadn’t read much before using the internet and were bad at inferring or implying tone in writing and then it became normal over time
Pearl Jam sucks
True. Maybe it’s to separate themselves from “[Music Artist] is OBJECTIVELY TRASH” posting
IMHO you stinky
Thine buttocks art stained milord, stained!
Yes, yes!!! That is the way people ought to address their liege
Can I have the Jester privileges or am I going to the dungeons?
I’m currently haunting the building waiting for the counter revolution from the other lords to come and torture everyone who led the jacquerie to death in my gaols so I no longer have the authority to grant you jesterhood
My dream denied yet again
As a real big autist who’s had a long string of really fucking bad interactions online since I was ten, I usually don’t say “IMO” but the more I suspect I’m gonna piss people off, the more IMOs I will sprinkle in as a hail mary in an attempt not to have furious motherfuckers filling up my DMs.
IMHO
I’ve always read that as “in my honest opinion”
For that I always put [most sincere voice] but for some reason people take it the wrong way
Uh, well IMHO I think you are wrong
I sentence you to execution
I’m sorry my leige, b-b-but you… I can’t do this anymore
[dies of gout and hemophilia] [my successor is feeble from sucking on rocks that unknowingly contain lead we believe are medicinal] [you are freed from the gaol by a Jacquerie by the weekend]
IMHO you should put me in the oubliette my liege
They are full again 😔
IHMO there are many wells in our fields my liege
your leige
sounds like someone is a fan of feudalism over here!
Yeah I think it’s good when I read Varoufakis’s stuff about techno feudalism I put down my visor and prepare to fulfill my duties for Peter Thiel
Im gonna read it like ur a ho
What if it’s lower case? imho
