Ben Percifield
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Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
"The difference between how people communicate in the internet era: Is your informal writing oriented towards the set of norms belonging to the online world or the offline one?"
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Unlike professionals who develop characters and plotlines for video game studios, Lahijani specifically writes for users who play Grand Theft Auto 5 Roleplay, a multiplayer computer version of the popular console game. In this iteration of the game, players have to submit character backstories to join specific servers and play with certain users.

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The possibility of an outright ban is “a huge anxiety,” he said. “I am a full-time content creator, so I make money from the platform.”
young people are adept at “code switching,” meaning they use different language depending on who they’re with and the situations they find themselves in.