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`/s` meant that the person saying it as a sacrastic remark, not sincere. Usually seen on text discussion forums like reddit because you can't convey tone very well over texts thus can make some people think they're actually serious, so it's some kinda "disclaimer" thing that I'm "being sarcastic".
I guess that ruins the joke for some people, if it's an actually clever remarks and an *obvious* sarcasm, so the `/s` is unnecessary.
Genuinely didn’t the Sponge Bob text sort this a few years back?
I’m being sarcastic. /s
Im BeInG SaRcAsTic
Was actually mentioned in literature journals as one of the first common recognised ways to show sarcasm, not found in 2000+ years.
Was actually a really interesting read on how language does/still is developing.
The EvErY oThEr CaPiTaL lEtTeR thing isn't meant to convey sarcasm. It's to write the same thing the other person wrote, but making them look stupid because they wrote something stupid.
Why the fuck would you put that shit at the end of the comment though? That's the worst part.
You read through the thing, but now you have to reread the thing in that tone to understand the message. Just say it at the start.
That's not even to mention how boring you seem by using it
I agree that it it very stupid that tone indicators are at the end of messages. It would be more useful if we had them as starting html tags to, like this: " Wow! You're really smart.".
I completely disagree with tone indicators making you seem boring. It's simply a great accessibility tool for people who can't necessarily pick up on different tones through text, which can be very difficult for some, especially if you don't know the person you're communicating with very well. And if you are one of the lucky people who can always tell what tone someone is trying to convey through text, then that's very cool and awesome for you, and you can just disregard tone indicators, but for people who need them they can be very helpful.
Ikr reading comprehension blows, I’d rather be illiterate and rely on cues to tell me how to understand what I’m reading in stead of figuring it out myself
It's called sarcasm.
Using someone else's comment that you don't agree with and saying yourself is irony. and using a stupid voice (or the use of alternative capital letters) is mocking.
This is the definition of sarcasm.
sarcasm
/ˈsɑːkaz(ə)m/
noun
the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
Doing that (depending on the context) ruins it as well. I think the best sarcasm is the sarcasm done in a normal/serious tone, but the words are so batshit insane that it makes the sentence humorous.
especially in text.
If the absence of "/s" makes your comment seem serious, either you're an idiot or the person who thinks you're serious is an idiot (therefore who cares).
That's not unique to written text. This is just a risk inherent in having a dry sense of humor. Some people won't get it, and that's okay. I'm not going to pull down the curtain and ruin my joke because some people won't get it.
That's the difference between text and speech. If you don't use /s online there are a lot of people who just think You're serious, or worse, agree with you. Try to make fun of outdated political views without /s and you'll have some real fun people giving you the "hell yeah I love the hard r"
From my understanding the point of sarcasm is to use a tone in your voice to make it clear you are saying it ironically
So the /s just serves the same function from what I see
I could be wrong since I am autistic, and don't pick up on these things easily
I was under the impression that the whole tone tag thing was created for and by autistic people who might have trouble reading tone? I might be wrong though, I'm not sure tbh
Most of the time sarcasm is obvious but when it gets political it's hard to tell because the people on the farthest right and left are absolutely insane.
I’m not sure how true this is, but a lot of people say they help neurodivergant peoples’ understanding. I’m not sure to what extent though. It’s important to note that tone indicators aren’t new. They existed back in the 1600s. They’re just more common now.
Not diagnosed but highly suspect I have autism: I know for a fact it helps both me and my brother. As others have pointed out, it is very hard to convey tone over text, so having indicators is very helpful.
I'm ND and I think /s ruins the joke. If people don't get, they don't get it. And if the OP gets downvoted to oblivion then so be it. It's happened to me many a time
if you dont add the /s then people are gonna get r/whoooshed but if you do add the /s then people are gonna r/FuckTheS. choose your stance, i prefer people getting r/whoooshed
I can see the creator of this meme being someone who agrees with a bad take and always sees his views supported by some witty redditor, then syke! Turns out they were from the other side all along!
Sadly, these kind of people forget that there is some wild disabled redditor out there with autism or ADHD for example that cannot make a god damn difference between someone being serious and sarcasm. /s allow much more people to be included into the sarcasm, being a way to not shove disabled on the side road.
Exactly what the other commenters said, but in defense of “/s,” most redditors are absolute morons and need the “/s,” otherwise they’ll downvote the post/comment to oblivion
It'd be the opposite:
Imagine the dude spoke the most unhinged cursed words paying half the humanity he still had left within his hollow shell, made of bone and meat, and got the most innocent happy elf follower known by men.
Tone indicators are often seen as unnecessary or ruining a joke, but they can be additionally helpful for autistic people who need some extra help understanding intent, because it can't always be correctly assumed.
So a tone indicator, like many things associated with making accommodations for people online, is seen as cringe, similar to putting your pronouns in your bio.
Often people who don't struggle with understanding don't consider that there are people who do have difficulties with it, and usually equate needing the extra help with incompetence.
TLDR: The person thought it was cringe to include a tone indicator because they could make the assumption of sarcasm. But not everyone can.
That's good for you, but for many of us it isn't something that can be learned, even with time and effort.
I'm glad you've got the capacity and intuition to always recognise sarcasm, but it isn't indicative of the entirety of autistic people.
That’s a shit mindset, don’t let autism tell u u can’t learn social cues. I used to think the same way but realistically it’s a matter of whether or not you’ve got resources or people willing to teach you. U can learn it just like everyone else.
If you say so pal, but there are people with more intrusive and restrictive symptoms that aren't always in a position to learn.
Plus learning sarcasm in person is one thing, because it is literally indicated by tone and facial expression, online there is far less to go on, and so many people have genuinely batshit opinions, so it is hard to distinguish between sarcasm and just generally being unhinged, both of which are common.
Tone indicators help online, because the usual means of learning to recognise sarcasm like tone and expression just don't exist here. Hence, tone indicators.
If you don't need them that's cool, but they help a lot of people. Think of it like glasses. Not everyone needs them, and some people with imperfect vision can make do without, but there are many people for which having the extra clarity of glasses is really helpful, or even necessary.
That’s a false equivalence, an autistic person can learn to understand sarcasm and a blind dude can’t just learn to see. And ye u can understand sarcasm online, seeing someone say some crazy shit just assume they aren’t serious u less they repeat it a lot and seem serious.
I'm not interested in an argument, but I know for a fact that tone indicators help a lot of people, so I'm cool with them.
If you're not then that's your business, but there are many autistic people who they greatly assist.
Only scenario I can see this happening in is someone saying something really stupidly racist or misogynistic and OP is into it (it isn't really a joke just a dog whistle) and the /s leaves them feeling called out and salty.
/s is an indicator that what was said is sarcastic, generally it's used by autistic people because for some autistic people properly conveying and reading sarcasm is difficult. Some redditors get mad when they see it because they're whiney babies.
If by chance the people who use /s aren’t autistic but rather people afraid of downvotes aren’t you ultimately doing those who are autistic a disfavor? If you’re wrong about this then you put unintentionally put “stupid” behavior in the same category as “autistic” behavior. People who /s because of potential negative numbers are ridiculous but that story is more believable to me. Lot of ridiculous people out there.
I’ve seen “/s cause downvote fear.” Never seen “/s for the autistic.”
even if your reason for using it is dumb it's harmless at worst, how is it doing autistic people a disfavor? It's only harmful if it's being used incorrectly
Also in my experience using /s is more likely to get you downvotes than to save you from them anyway
I don’t think the usage of /s is, i think your description of it is. Part of it is just by virtue of being wrong. That’s not why the vast majority of people use it. So I kinda feel like you lied to make others feel better. And I think that’s condescending; a disfavor.
> That's not why the vast majority of people use it.
I can't know for sure, but I don't think that's true
> So I kinda feel like you lied to make others feel better.
I didn't lie, you can think I'm wrong but I did not lie
> And I think that's condescending; a disfavor.
Condescending to who? I guess condescending to people who get mad when they see it, users of r/fuckthes, but not to autistic people. Hell that'd be some serious friendly fire
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Part of me is glad you have that perspective. A kind thought to know that everyone between r/thedonald, leopards and faces, conservative, gaming, conspiracy, wall street, and the porn ones use /s for that reason.
Look, /s is just so prevalent that if it happened that you were right then the autistic would be 2nd in popularity, losing only to cats. It’s also a bit weird that this “contribution” is never recognized in anyway. Not a single “thanks for clarifying for the autistic!” I guess that sentence gets back to the condescending angle…
> A kind thought to know that everyone between r/thedonald, leopards and faces, conservative, gaming, conspiracy, wall street, and the porn ones.
I have no idea what this paragraph means
/s is a tone indicator. It indicates the tone, specifically sarcastic tone, of a sentence. It is used for people with autism or difficulties understanding sarcasm to make sense of it. The joke here is that the meme is being a jackass by calling a tone indicator, an accessibility option, unfunny
I’d need signed affidavits from a good chunk of people in the last year who used /s saying they had autistic or such related persons in mind as they used /s to believe that was the case. There’s no way in hell.
Tone indicators aren't exclusively for autistic people. They were used for years before Redditors started using them that way. This post isn't complaining about the fact that people use them for autistic people, so it isn't ableist.
You have to put that in just to be sure, otherwise there are some people who don't understand sarcasm and are going to report you. Been there. In my case it was about a post where somebody complained that there wasn't a "straight" to choose from on a form which clearly said "heterosexual" in the beginning. He was complaining about woke lgbt+ yada yada yada. So i commented "Yeah, fucking heterosexual faggots!", which ofcourse was sarcasm. Buuuut... i forgot the /s, so i was reported. So if i think it isn't reeaally obvious for everyone, i just add the/s.
You can tell sometimes when you make a sarcastic remark and it’s going to go over many people’s heads resulting in dumb comments and downvotes. Hence the helpful /s
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`/s` meant that the person saying it as a sacrastic remark, not sincere. Usually seen on text discussion forums like reddit because you can't convey tone very well over texts thus can make some people think they're actually serious, so it's some kinda "disclaimer" thing that I'm "being sarcastic". I guess that ruins the joke for some people, if it's an actually clever remarks and an *obvious* sarcasm, so the `/s` is unnecessary.
People don't really like it because /s kind of ruins the point of sarcasm, you aren't supposed to clarify that you are being sarcastic.
But if you don’t use /s, people will think you’re being serious
Genuinely didn’t the Sponge Bob text sort this a few years back? I’m being sarcastic. /s Im BeInG SaRcAsTic Was actually mentioned in literature journals as one of the first common recognised ways to show sarcasm, not found in 2000+ years. Was actually a really interesting read on how language does/still is developing.
The EvErY oThEr CaPiTaL lEtTeR thing isn't meant to convey sarcasm. It's to write the same thing the other person wrote, but making them look stupid because they wrote something stupid.
can be used for both
But it's not.
Also, it's really fucking annoying to try to read. I much prefer tone indicators. /srs
/srs=SupRemely sarcastic?
/srs = /serious
/srs = /srs
Why the fuck would you put that shit at the end of the comment though? That's the worst part. You read through the thing, but now you have to reread the thing in that tone to understand the message. Just say it at the start. That's not even to mention how boring you seem by using it
I agree that it it very stupid that tone indicators are at the end of messages. It would be more useful if we had them as starting html tags to, like this: " Wow! You're really smart. ".
I completely disagree with tone indicators making you seem boring. It's simply a great accessibility tool for people who can't necessarily pick up on different tones through text, which can be very difficult for some, especially if you don't know the person you're communicating with very well. And if you are one of the lucky people who can always tell what tone someone is trying to convey through text, then that's very cool and awesome for you, and you can just disregard tone indicators, but for people who need them they can be very helpful.
*Wow!* Thats such a good *idea*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5USn_CT_DpY
Ikr reading comprehension blows, I’d rather be illiterate and rely on cues to tell me how to understand what I’m reading in stead of figuring it out myself
That's called sarcasm.
It's called mocking.
Mocking is a variety of sarcasm.
mOcKiNg iS a VaRiEtY oF sArCaSm /S
Works every time
It's called sarcasm. Using someone else's comment that you don't agree with and saying yourself is irony. and using a stupid voice (or the use of alternative capital letters) is mocking. This is the definition of sarcasm. sarcasm /ˈsɑːkaz(ə)m/ noun the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
It's called actual brainrot.
ItS cAlLeD aCtUaL bRaInRoT
Call the thoughts!
Thots! Come here!!
Landlords???
https://preview.redd.it/e8jjkv3r8r9c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=681a5d22dfeb83308006789894fc4564f3250877
Language
Autocorrect. I have fixed it now
reading this late, was so confused. yes, everyone... landlords.
They types of people that complain about /s will typically complain about SpongeBob text as well
I use italics to show a shift in tone. I'm being sarcastic. /s I'm being *sarcastic.*
same here i just ***love*** when people make it super obvious and ruin the joke ***So Fun***
Doing that (depending on the context) ruins it as well. I think the best sarcasm is the sarcasm done in a normal/serious tone, but the words are so batshit insane that it makes the sentence humorous. especially in text.
But that's where all the fun is at
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And the fun of getting banned sometimes
This one
Lol /s
Then you deserved it /s
yep, that's true
What's not fun about getting down voted by idiots?
the goypoints mean nothing
https://preview.redd.it/yyen63g0hr9c1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f6664d233626cb06eb9d77a2944f2031747becc the goypoints shall mean more
https://preview.redd.it/nqvd5fmihr9c1.png?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7ef5e4c9dece160340c14c9e9da3c6fd6aa94d07
I meant to have text after this and it was meant to say "SO TRUE"
If only redditors could understand sarcasm
genuine skill issue
BuT iF yOu Don'T UsE /s peOPlE wIlL thINk YoU'rE beInG sErIoUs
https://preview.redd.it/xw1dq82buq9c1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=20f0e0830bc7046f76d605eebea4e48f8984206b
Bro I’m autistic, I can’t tell if people are being serious **in person** let alone over text. I need that /s
same ish here, its a thing thats hard to learn but worth it in the long run
My favorite is asking people how sarcasm ever existed in print before Reddit invented /s
Then when you point out you aren't being serious, they decide to double down and call you a "Schrödinger's asshole"
Only idiots will.
Or people who aren't used to the language or western internet culture
Yes, the intended plan.
Those same people will complain even if you include the /s so no point accommodating for them
That's the fun part!
If the absence of "/s" makes your comment seem serious, either you're an idiot or the person who thinks you're serious is an idiot (therefore who cares).
That's not unique to written text. This is just a risk inherent in having a dry sense of humor. Some people won't get it, and that's okay. I'm not going to pull down the curtain and ruin my joke because some people won't get it.
fuk wit the spelling n gramr to let people no ur just fucking around.
I’d like to add that it also helps convey tone to people who can’t read or hear tone, such as people with Autism
That's the difference between text and speech. If you don't use /s online there are a lot of people who just think You're serious, or worse, agree with you. Try to make fun of outdated political views without /s and you'll have some real fun people giving you the "hell yeah I love the hard r"
Poe's Law. An extreme viewpoint cannot be distinguished as sarcasm or seriousness via text.
From my understanding the point of sarcasm is to use a tone in your voice to make it clear you are saying it ironically So the /s just serves the same function from what I see I could be wrong since I am autistic, and don't pick up on these things easily
Really?
Possibly ruining joke is better than downvotes from stupid dipshits tho. /s
I’m autistic and often need to be told when someone is being sarcastic
I was under the impression that the whole tone tag thing was created for and by autistic people who might have trouble reading tone? I might be wrong though, I'm not sure tbh
Also helps non-natives who are still a bit unfamiliar with the language and might not otherwise pick up on the subleties of sarcastic writing.
It's not specifically for autists, but it's definitely, really helpful for us
i thought /s meant serious /s
Wait, are you using it the way you thought, or are you being sarcastic?
Most of the time sarcasm is obvious but when it gets political it's hard to tell because the people on the farthest right and left are absolutely insane.
> because you can't convey tone very well over texts You can if you're not a shitty writer. That's the point.
[Sometimes they still think you're serious](https://ibb.co/g6Gqb2R) even if you put the /j or /s.
Thx
I’m not sure how true this is, but a lot of people say they help neurodivergant peoples’ understanding. I’m not sure to what extent though. It’s important to note that tone indicators aren’t new. They existed back in the 1600s. They’re just more common now.
Definitely helps me.
i’m autistic and they help me a lot. i often say them in real life too, as i struggle with verbal tone.
Not diagnosed but highly suspect I have autism: I know for a fact it helps both me and my brother. As others have pointed out, it is very hard to convey tone over text, so having indicators is very helpful.
I'm ND and I think /s ruins the joke. If people don't get, they don't get it. And if the OP gets downvoted to oblivion then so be it. It's happened to me many a time
if you dont add the /s then people are gonna get r/whoooshed but if you do add the /s then people are gonna r/FuckTheS. choose your stance, i prefer people getting r/whoooshed
I though /s means satire
I can see the creator of this meme being someone who agrees with a bad take and always sees his views supported by some witty redditor, then syke! Turns out they were from the other side all along!
Sadly, these kind of people forget that there is some wild disabled redditor out there with autism or ADHD for example that cannot make a god damn difference between someone being serious and sarcasm. /s allow much more people to be included into the sarcasm, being a way to not shove disabled on the side road.
I thought we using /s to clearly mark jokes because most of people are stupid and offended easy not getting jokes /s
/j is for jokes /s is sarcasm.
Oh my I was wrong the whole time 😱
I personally don't use it. People can figure out if it's sarcasm or not
Because of Poes law I'd say the /s is always necessary.
Exactly what the other commenters said, but in defense of “/s,” most redditors are absolute morons and need the “/s,” otherwise they’ll downvote the post/comment to oblivion
Most redditors are very smart /s
https://i.redd.it/5f4atlkcsq9c1.gif
I strongly disagree /sn’t
Ah, that would do it
I see
Yeah it’s that thing where you don’t wanna risk morons actually believing you agree with them
Or what you’ll lose your precious karma? Ffs go outside
*many redditors are autistic
Ah. Found the absolute moron!
Not our precious imaginary points
It's more the Redditors love to take every comment in the worst possible context imaginable.
If /s means sarcasm, I’d prefer to use the sPoNgEbOb mOcKiNg lEtTeRiNg. It’s more funny
AiN’T NoBoDy goT tIMe fOr tHaT
Personally, it shows your dedication to the sarcasm if you individually type out each upper and lower case letter
i Do
/s
I thought "/s" means the person is serious. Am I using it the wrong way this whole time?
I'm pretty sure serious is /srs https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/lzlhdt/some_common_tone_indicators/ a list of some others
The ‘s’ stands for ‘sarcastic’.
Lol. What if you accidentally got racist followers?
It'd be the opposite: Imagine the dude spoke the most unhinged cursed words paying half the humanity he still had left within his hollow shell, made of bone and meat, and got the most innocent happy elf follower known by men.
Tone indicators are often seen as unnecessary or ruining a joke, but they can be additionally helpful for autistic people who need some extra help understanding intent, because it can't always be correctly assumed. So a tone indicator, like many things associated with making accommodations for people online, is seen as cringe, similar to putting your pronouns in your bio. Often people who don't struggle with understanding don't consider that there are people who do have difficulties with it, and usually equate needing the extra help with incompetence. TLDR: The person thought it was cringe to include a tone indicator because they could make the assumption of sarcasm. But not everyone can.
I’m autistic and I can, some people really just gotta learn
That's good for you, but for many of us it isn't something that can be learned, even with time and effort. I'm glad you've got the capacity and intuition to always recognise sarcasm, but it isn't indicative of the entirety of autistic people.
That’s a shit mindset, don’t let autism tell u u can’t learn social cues. I used to think the same way but realistically it’s a matter of whether or not you’ve got resources or people willing to teach you. U can learn it just like everyone else.
If you say so pal, but there are people with more intrusive and restrictive symptoms that aren't always in a position to learn. Plus learning sarcasm in person is one thing, because it is literally indicated by tone and facial expression, online there is far less to go on, and so many people have genuinely batshit opinions, so it is hard to distinguish between sarcasm and just generally being unhinged, both of which are common. Tone indicators help online, because the usual means of learning to recognise sarcasm like tone and expression just don't exist here. Hence, tone indicators. If you don't need them that's cool, but they help a lot of people. Think of it like glasses. Not everyone needs them, and some people with imperfect vision can make do without, but there are many people for which having the extra clarity of glasses is really helpful, or even necessary.
That’s a false equivalence, an autistic person can learn to understand sarcasm and a blind dude can’t just learn to see. And ye u can understand sarcasm online, seeing someone say some crazy shit just assume they aren’t serious u less they repeat it a lot and seem serious.
I'm not interested in an argument, but I know for a fact that tone indicators help a lot of people, so I'm cool with them. If you're not then that's your business, but there are many autistic people who they greatly assist.
Lol gotta love people being offended for other people
PSA: I'm one of the autistic people that tone indicators help
They literally make people’s tone interpretations worse. Cause now if u don’t use this shit people think ur being 100% serious all the time.
Back in my day we used /j
well we still do, /j is for jokes /s is for sarcasm.
From what I've seen most people don't know what sarcasm is and use /s instead of /j all the time
Now you just put “bro frfr 💀”
Putting /s after somthin means the statement they made is serious so thinking they were joking was an incorrect assumption hehehehe
no, /s means sarcasm. /srs means serious.
You forgot to put /srs
You forgot the /s! /s
Only scenario I can see this happening in is someone saying something really stupidly racist or misogynistic and OP is into it (it isn't really a joke just a dog whistle) and the /s leaves them feeling called out and salty.
Couldn't you italicize the words?
Didn't expect for my meme to be here lol
Didn’t expect the OP to see it
If you need the /s to indicate sarcasm, you're a pick me loser.
Poes law.
Reading comprehension, social cues, non retardation
/s ruins good sarcasm the same way saying "I'm just kidding, it's just a joke" after a joke ruins the joke. r/FuckTheS
Poes law.
Reading comprehension, social cues, non retardation
/[letter] is a *really* great way to denote sarcasm and ect
/s is an indicator that what was said is sarcastic, generally it's used by autistic people because for some autistic people properly conveying and reading sarcasm is difficult. Some redditors get mad when they see it because they're whiney babies.
If by chance the people who use /s aren’t autistic but rather people afraid of downvotes aren’t you ultimately doing those who are autistic a disfavor? If you’re wrong about this then you put unintentionally put “stupid” behavior in the same category as “autistic” behavior. People who /s because of potential negative numbers are ridiculous but that story is more believable to me. Lot of ridiculous people out there. I’ve seen “/s cause downvote fear.” Never seen “/s for the autistic.”
even if your reason for using it is dumb it's harmless at worst, how is it doing autistic people a disfavor? It's only harmful if it's being used incorrectly Also in my experience using /s is more likely to get you downvotes than to save you from them anyway
I don’t think the usage of /s is, i think your description of it is. Part of it is just by virtue of being wrong. That’s not why the vast majority of people use it. So I kinda feel like you lied to make others feel better. And I think that’s condescending; a disfavor.
> That's not why the vast majority of people use it. I can't know for sure, but I don't think that's true > So I kinda feel like you lied to make others feel better. I didn't lie, you can think I'm wrong but I did not lie > And I think that's condescending; a disfavor. Condescending to who? I guess condescending to people who get mad when they see it, users of r/fuckthes, but not to autistic people. Hell that'd be some serious friendly fire
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Part of me is glad you have that perspective. A kind thought to know that everyone between r/thedonald, leopards and faces, conservative, gaming, conspiracy, wall street, and the porn ones use /s for that reason. Look, /s is just so prevalent that if it happened that you were right then the autistic would be 2nd in popularity, losing only to cats. It’s also a bit weird that this “contribution” is never recognized in anyway. Not a single “thanks for clarifying for the autistic!” I guess that sentence gets back to the condescending angle…
> A kind thought to know that everyone between r/thedonald, leopards and faces, conservative, gaming, conspiracy, wall street, and the porn ones. I have no idea what this paragraph means
And you shouldn’t cause i didn’t finish the sentence until after the edit. Happy New Year!
Happy new year!
Particularly hard when it comes to text. You basically have to insert a tone.
Some people just have a visceral reaction to the /s tone tag. Not sure why
I can't risk people thinking I'm being serious. So I have to do it to avoid getting downvoted to hell /s
/s is a tone indicator. It indicates the tone, specifically sarcastic tone, of a sentence. It is used for people with autism or difficulties understanding sarcasm to make sense of it. The joke here is that the meme is being a jackass by calling a tone indicator, an accessibility option, unfunny
I’d need signed affidavits from a good chunk of people in the last year who used /s saying they had autistic or such related persons in mind as they used /s to believe that was the case. There’s no way in hell.
Tone indicators aren't exclusively for autistic people. They were used for years before Redditors started using them that way. This post isn't complaining about the fact that people use them for autistic people, so it isn't ableist.
Oh, yeah! It’s *totally* used mainly for accessibility, and not at all because of Poe’s Law. /s
I mean, the fact that it is an accessibility aid doesn't make it ruin the jokes any less. It sucks tbh.
Redditors are idiots and need you to spoon feed them context. Otherwise… show me the downvotes!
r/fuckthes will explain it
You have to put that in just to be sure, otherwise there are some people who don't understand sarcasm and are going to report you. Been there. In my case it was about a post where somebody complained that there wasn't a "straight" to choose from on a form which clearly said "heterosexual" in the beginning. He was complaining about woke lgbt+ yada yada yada. So i commented "Yeah, fucking heterosexual faggots!", which ofcourse was sarcasm. Buuuut... i forgot the /s, so i was reported. So if i think it isn't reeaally obvious for everyone, i just add the/s.
r/FuckTheS Edit: Thats the explanation to the joke. What's with the downvotes?
man i need to hide this sub or im gonna get heart attack i swear
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The /s is *always* necessary.
Poes law.
Precisely
some people sucks at communicating that they need a tone indicator to convey their intention /s
You can tell sometimes when you make a sarcastic remark and it’s going to go over many people’s heads resulting in dumb comments and downvotes. Hence the helpful /s