I’ve gone mad
Posted on November 3rd, 2025 in entry
I’ve been coding and tweaking and nattering for some godIdon’tknowhowmany hours straight, so forgive me for being insane.
I’m going to write it down, anyway.
LOLCat captions are written in “Pidgin”. True story. That’s what they’re calling it.
People are having relationships via twitter in 140 character bursts.
Others are having entire conversations cross-site in Flickr photo tags. We’re talking in tags.
How quickly can you grab the relevant information off a page? 20 words? Ten? Five?
People may be as dumb as bricks sometimes — just look at the comments section of YouTube if you don’t believe me. Give people space to write and they’ll give you back shit, 99% of the time.
But with faster communication systems we’re learning to communicate faster. Developing complicated netspeak beyond just simple letter or word replacement. Shoving an entire twelve page rant into DO NOT WANT. We’re moving into, haha, radio communication. Roger that? Only it’s multimedia, because we can toss up a pic (worth a thousand of them) or a vid or an mp3 to sup the broken grammar.
Club, groups, scenes, doctors, pros in any field have always had lingo, faster than thought communication. A well oiled machine can talk faster than an outsider can listen. A loved one can lecture or praise with a twitch of the lips. We’ve always been able to communicate this fast, but never with so many at once.
Of course, we’re still sticking captions to cats.
But once we’re fluent at talking in nothing…
Well, some do enough damage with a couple thousand words.
You could crack the world with seven.
Trixie Bedlam
