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.
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.
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.
Accurate explanation, though it highlights the NPC / monkey brain level of these comments:
Monke see comment
Monke think same
Dopamine released
Click like button
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.
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.
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.
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 😬
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