@Felthry My hot take guesstimate is someone older than 50 who is like a construction manager or a mechanic or something like that who hangs out in facebook groups with other Boomers and has had very little other occasion to learn to write intelligibly online.

@Felthry wait shit gen-xers are that old now too guess my casual ageism is misplaced.

speculation re: heavy use of all-caps 

@Felthry I think some people actually find all-caps text comfortable to read?

like, film critic hulk had a schtick for ages where everything was in all-caps and only after I'm-pretty-sure-literal-years decided it wasn't worth the extra difficulty it made for some readers

it has the feeling of that kind of accessibility problem - someone who doesn't see a problem blithely doing something they find entertaining, to the detriment of their potential audience

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