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[-] dropout@lemmy.world 128 points 7 months ago

Bro calling people NPCs πŸ’€

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 5 points 7 months ago

I guess "normies" was becoming too mainstream

[-] Jilanico@lemmy.world 79 points 7 months ago

They are just commenting the same way they talk to their friends. People quote funny lines from movies right after watching or say stuff like, "Did you see that crazy stunt in the film?? He literally drove off a cliff!!" They get tons of upvotes too because people feel a connection by recounting and acknowledging what they collectively experienced. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

So much of what's wrong with online communication is that many people speak to a public audience like they'd speak to a friend in private

[-] Jilanico@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago

You mean people getting offended because they misinterpret a friendly jab? Personally, I wish more people commented in a friendly manner. So many toxic comments out there 😬

[-] glimse@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

Friendly is great, I don't mean people shouldn't joke around.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago
[-] other_cat@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

Not the commentor but the context clues of their comments leads me to think it's because people talk without a filter, like they would their close friends in a private conversation.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Is it so bad to talk without a filter in a place where online community is encouraged?

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Accurate explanation, though it highlights the NPC / monkey brain level of these comments:

  1. Monke see comment

  2. Monke think same

  3. Dopamine released

  4. Click like button

  5. Monke happi

Which of course happens similarly IRL, but it’s less cringe as it’s just a passing verbal comment, not captured and displayed on the web for all eternity.

[-] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago

That's just empathy though? Putting yourself in someone else's shoes and relating to what they thought at the time. You can infer a lot more than surface level description from someone repeating a specific line mentioned in a video.

blud literally posted on 4chan πŸ’€

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 7 months ago

Bro greentexted πŸ’€

[-] BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 30 points 7 months ago

This is nothing. Wait until you hear high schoolers addressing "chat" irl while not connected to any kind of chat.

[-] Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago

Chat is this real?

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 12 points 7 months ago

Thanks chat

[-] WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Mods crush his skull

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 5 points 7 months ago

I saw people talking about that as being perhaps the first fourth-person pronoun. Pretty interesting idea.

[-] PatMustard@feddit.uk 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Still third-person though really

[-] odium@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Nah, they were just talking to their friend, Chad.

Right, chat?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

But "chatting" also refers to talking, no?
Unless I misunderstood your comment. I tend to do that.

Edit:

talk in a friendly and informal way.

Very much so. Not sure why I needed to verify it, but I would probably verify it's indeed 2024 if you told me that it's actually 1786, just to make sure it's not me thinking that.

[-] odium@programming.dev 6 points 7 months ago

Twitch streamers usually address their live chat as "chat". The person you are replying to heard high schoolers addressing chat, talking like they were streaming, even when they clearly weren't.

[-] The_Tired_Horizon@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

Or they repeat the exact same soundbite in the comments.

[-] robocall@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago

Bro actually posted that πŸ’€

[-] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 15 points 7 months ago

Go and look at the comments on a video of any pilot doing anything remotely interesting, and see how many comments mention the pilot's balls.

They're not an original bunch.

[-] arvere@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

like it or not, those are the people who make text search against videos possible

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Who bro opps πŸ’€

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago
[-] odium@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I think it's a way to start a discussion thread on a specific section of a video.

Would be better if they added some thoughts of their own in the original comment.

[-] don@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

A channer calling people in a video’s comments section NPCs. Peak irony, right there.

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