Thread by @visakanv

I sometimes remind myself that there are lovely people in the world who are terrible at Being Online. One of my favorite dudes is this guy who ran a jamming studio – delightful, generous, sweetheart host vibes, but on the forum he would type things that made me wanna punch him

to be clear it's not like he was posting bad takes or anything – he was being his typical cheeky self, but in his plaintext voice it came across as obnoxious, rude. he would be great on tiktok or youtube or something, you can fall in love with him in seconds

actually he's kinda like michael pena's character in ant-man. imagine this guy posting tweets but everyone just dunks on him because he types like a fool

and then he chuckles and tosses his phone aside and is like "internet's crazy, man, what can you do. hey let's get ice cream"

i'm reminded, there's a bit in one of my youtube videos where I say "i'm always real, you fuckers" and I'm laughing while I say it, and people in the comments said it's funny too, but if I just tweeted that without context it would seem weirdly hostile – that sort of thing

people who are very charismatic IRL often develop all sorts of voices and characters that they use on the fly, and this doesn't translate well into plaintext. another eg coming to mind: contrapoints has a hilarious, charming way of saying "that must be super fucking hard for you"

so there's this phenomenon where podcasters and vloggers etc come along just tweet their thoughts on twitter in their natural cadence, expecting to reach their fans who know them and their voice, but then they get mercilessly dragged by the plaintext tactical assault militia