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The topic of this week’s post will be a little bit different than usual. While still covering language and its usage it will be covering language usage on the internet. Recently a video was posted on the PBS Idea Channel on YouTube. In this video the host discusses a number of ‘dialects’ used among different internet communities. The weird thing is, especially since the video was posted on YouTube, he didn’t discuss the ‘dialect’ used on YouTube. This is what I’ll be trying to do in this blog post. In addition to that, as a result of my continued annoyance with the language used on YouTube, I will advice you, the reader, on what language to avoid at all cost. I found it fitting to start this ‘lesson’ off with the word “First”. This is a statement used in the YouTube comment section. In most cases “First” is short for: “Hey there! I was so quick with clicking on this recently released video. I was able leave the first comment.” Leaving such a comment became quite a hype a few years ago when viewers wanted to show their dedication to certain popular youtubers (people who create video’s on YouTube). Nowadays, the practice is usually frowned upon so I would not encourage you to use it. From “First” a few spin-offs were created over the years. Examples of these are the obsolete “Under 301 club” and the more recent “Notification squad”. The first (no pun intended) one of these examples was used when the view-counter of a YouTube video would display the number 301 for a while after it had reached this amount of views. The second example has been gaining popularity since viewers have been able to receive notifications on their phone when certain YouTube channels post a new video. Both however, serve the same purpose as “First” The YouTube comment section is also used to have discussions, in addition to the earlier mentioned abuse. Although you might think these discussions are about the contents of the video in question, this is often not the case. There are a few things yo |
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