"Chat" is not a fourth person pronoun and I'm not even sold on it being a pronoun in the first place. What nouns are it replacing? Every individual chat member?! It is very clear that some people get some sort of pseudointellectual ego trip out of disrupting how people view fields of study and in this case their own language, and prioritize that over presenting coherent ideas that withstand even an iota of critical thinking.
Also, that thread implies that it is somehow unique to the Internet that chat members differentiate themselves from the hypothetical chat. I was not aware that the internet invented individualism, I believe a lot of historical philosophy and theory needs to be revised to accommodate this anonymous Twitter user's revelations.
i never hear anything about this dude. i played through Half-Life 2 for the first time earlier this year and that's the first i've ever heard of him; most of the other characters i'd absorbed over the years through internet culture osmosis - but this one? practically absent from any mainstream memes or SFM vids. absolutely blackholed. 19 years to seep into the collective consciousness the way Gordon et al did and nothing! i understand he's not very quotable but that's hard to consider as a factor when i've seen multiple HL1 houndeye memes. clearly a lot of work went into designing and rigging Dog; his movement is expressive and fluid, likely requiring a good amount of bespoke coding just for him; the folks at Valve probably patted each other on the back about it. he shows up in both episodes too. they probably truly believed in him. maybe they went: oh people are gonna love this guy, he's perfect as a mascot. yet two decades later, what is his legacy? is there any to speak of? does he even show up a single time throughout the entirety of skibidi toilet? i haven't watched those so i wouldn't know
One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:
It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and
Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.
If you ever find yourself thinking "oh it's only ██:00, I still have plenty of time before this turns into sleep deprivation" that is the devil speaking. Go to bed NOW before it's too late
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