Online related pet peeves?

[PageEmp]

So here is where we share things you see on certain websites or forums that you see other people do but annoy you personally.

Do not call out specific users who did the stuff you mentioned, please. Keep all of such to yourself.

One thing that bothers me is when people bold every other word on their post.

Whenever I do it, it's just only a few words just to use emphasis. But doing it on practically half of the words or terms on your post just makes it irritating to read.

Just my two cents anyway. As for the rest of you?

 

[5qwerty]

for me, its when other people can't get they're uses of homonyms correct

There's a large list of this kind of stuff, but the biggest offenders are it's/its, there/they're/their, and your/you're. Some might not even necessarily have to be homonyms, just stuff like "lose" vs "loose" kind of annoys me too.

 

[Palamon]

MOOD THAT'S SUCH A MOOD BIG FUCKING MOOOD

shut UP

....Did I mention I hate when people said Mood THAT'S a mOOd yet?

Gen z/alpha talk in general.

 

[Corrin]

When people are "playfully" rude, or just rude in general. You see it a lot on Twitter.

 

[bobandbill]

I Dislike It When Every Word Is Capitalised.

 

[SteCisGreendog]

The word 'franchise' on so many articles (see 'What pissed you off today?') This isn't English - it's showing off.

And social media sites that say they are SFW despite the 'F' word being freely used without moderation. EDIT and it's used as the punchline to a stupid meme. Memes are already stupid enough!

Yep, someone got up at the wrong side of the bed this morning. I'll take it out on my next travel log.

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

I personally know too many people who do them to list the very few that annoy me. :p

Gen z/alpha talk in general.

And seconded.

 

[Sake-Kun]

When my own kind keeps calling common folk things they don't want us to call them, and then whine when said normal people inevitably tell us to get bent.
You need to either be incredibly dumb or intentionally malicious to do something repeatedly the other side doesn't want you to do. Back in the day, just doing that one time could've net you a fist in the face.

Not that I'm surprised, I've pretty much known since childhood to not associate with people just because they share the same demographic as I do.
That's how I've avoided all the nonsense that group of people gets themselves into on the regular.

 

[RadEmpoleon]

- Words like "unalive" instead of "kill"... I get that it's supposed to get around filters for inappropriate words, but "unalive" dilutes the seriousness of "kill" with a silly sounding word. Eventually we will reach the point where people actually say that in an actual conversation...
- Similarly, censoring words like this (idk how to describe this): "lé$bï@ñ" instead of "lesbian". Again, I get that it's supposed to get around filters for inappropriate words, but it's just so much more needlessly difficult to read. It also rubs me the wrong way how so many of these "bad" words are often about marginalized communities: black, gay, trans, disabled, Palestine, etc.
- "POV". It is so overused that the original meaning has been completely diluted and means nothing anymore. Almost every time I see a caption that starts with POV, it is using the phrase wrong. (Something like "POV: you hate the skirt industry so you started a small business making skirts") Just put the caption without the damn abbreviation. 99% of the time, there is no "point of view" that the viewer is supposed to imagine themselves in; it is a third-person video with the abbreviation slapped on because it's "trendy" or whatever.
- Using "bro" as the default pronoun. (Something like "Bro just choked the game") It gets really tiring to see after one or two bro's.

 

[Auticorn]

MOOD THAT'S SUCH A MOOD BIG FUCKING MOOOD

shut UP

....Did I mention I hate when people said Mood THAT'S a mOOd yet?

Gen z/alpha talk in general.

I say that a lot. O_O

Anyway, I really hate the whole thing like:

Me: I'm bored.
Someone else: Hi bored, I'm <whatever their name is>

It drives nuts because it's not even what I'm saying. I mean, how ELSE am I going to say that I'm bored? It doesn't mean my NAME is bored... I really don't get the point of that.