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When you have something to write but no one wants to read it

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i’m not sure

2 min readMay 30, 2025

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i don’t know anymore if i should use capital letters (or write). is there a point in that? i still ask punctuation signs for help and comfort but i believe it will end soon. they call it the genz pressure. i used to call it laziness.

i changed.

genzee are so bougie.

i got on tinder for dating purposes and tripled my texting output in a matter of days. i had to adapt my style. first came the acronyms. because it’s faster to type til or wyd or tfw. but that wasn’t enough.

i also styled my messages for efficiency. it’s the data scientist in me. numbers are the moon to my inner werewolf. always trying to optimize. even love. sad?

seducing with words still works, but it’s better if it’s lowkey or poetry, and what conveys lowkey chillness more than lowercase letters?

CERTAINLY NOT THESE CAPITAL ONES

i had a woman tell me she enjoyed my lowercase messages because she was sick and tired of trump’s constant SHOUTING on his socials. can you believe it?

lowercase became political.

it’s everywhere now. do you exit your bed with your right or left foot? do you yawn before eating cucumbers? have you found a nickel or a dime while walking yesterday?

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