What’s the Viral ‘Influencer Accent’ and Why Is It So Popular Online?
Influencers, now a slowly fading cliché in the Internet’s tableau vivant, found success articulating the cult of personality, and marketing themselves as direct-to-consumer-goods. The shift away from this algorithmic surrender can be traced to the macro and micro “creator economies” spawned by the likes of Patreon, Substack, OnlyFans and even Cameo... See more
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
As soon as older people start using online slang popularized by young people on TikTok, the terms “become obsolete,” said Nicole Holliday, an assistant professor of linguistics at Pomona College. “Once the parents have it, you have to move on to something else.”
Melina Delkic • Leg Booty? Panoramic? Seggs? How TikTok Is Changing Language
Upspeak, occasionally known as uptalk, is when you phrase your declarative sentences as questions. Doing this doesn’t follow expected speech patterns to others, so it typically causes confusion and misinterpretation all around.
Patrick King • Conversation Tactics: Strategies to Command Social Situations (Book 3): Wittiness, Banter, Likability
People don’t seem to care or even notice when men talk this way. Only when it comes from female mouths does it cause such an upset. This fact makes it clear that our culture’s aversion to vocal fry, uptalk, and like isn’t really about the speech qualities themselves.