Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

This is quite recent but I’ve been browsing Lemmy a bunch lately and quite often I see extreme grammatical errors.

I’m not talking about like, incorrect stylistic choices between commas and dashes, or an improper use of ellipses or missing commas or incorrect use of apostrophes in its/it’s or in multiple posessive articles or just plain typos or any nitpicky grammar nazi shit like that, but just basic spelling specifically.

It’s one thing when you can’t spell some pretty uncommon words and you’re too lazy to look it up and/or use autocorrect, but it’s a completely different league to misspell very basic words, very recently I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

And it’s not been an isolated thing either, I’ve seen several instances like that lately.

Am I going crazy? Is it just me?

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libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You are going crazy. I’ve been on the internet since like 1992 and have spent many, many years reading forums and playing text-based role playing games, and this is very not new, spelling has always been awful because it’s not a formal medium where that stuff matters to most people. If anything it’s probably gotten better since the advent of smart phones with built in auto-correct.

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- makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  OP’s browsing habits likely recently changed to a place on the web with more English as a second language users. Those kinds of misspellings are pretty common with people who learned a lot of their English from streaming Youtube and other online shows
  
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  - Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    It’s the opposite. People learning English as a second language are typically much better spellers. Only a native speaker would misspell extreme that way
    
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  - lemmyng@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I’ve always experienced the opposite - native English speakers are horrible at spelling because they don’t have to put any effort into comprehending the language, vs non-native speakers who frequently have to take ESL tests for either academia, work, or immigration, and therefore had more exposure to spelling practice.
    
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  - libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    My guess is it’s just the frequency illusion, because they’re also super common among Americans who have only ever spoken English from birth. My theory is that these types of misspellings (like ‘itsplain’ instead of ‘explain’) are from folks who don’t read a lot and therefore seem to be guessing on spelling based on what they’ve (mis)heard rather than having seen it on the page/screen enough to notice the correct spelling.
    
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  - LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No they haven’t changed at all. I’ve been using mostly Lemmy as my one and only SM for most of the past year and this is a very new phenomenon to me.
    
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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Idk I swear to god it wasn’t this bad like 6 months ago, nevermind 10 years ago. Again, I’m not talking about formality or punctuation but basic grammar like spelling.
  
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  - libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    What possible cause could there be for lots of people to suddenly start spelling worse? Wait, this isn’t another of those ‘smart phones are making us dumb!’ posts is it? Cause people have said that about pretty much every invention since the printing press. It’s probably just the frequency illusion, where you notice something for no particular reason and then start seeing it everywhere, especially if you’re only noticing changes over the period of a few months. Spelling was every bit as bad in 1995 as it is in 2025. Maybe worse due to the lack of access to spell-checking, auto-correct, online dictionaries, etc, and you can notice it especially in people who don’t read much (which is how you get spellings like ‘itsplain’ instead of ‘explain’, it seems like they’re guessing based on what they’ve (mis)heard instead of seeing it on the page/screen) even long before smart phones were a thing.
    
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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I’ve on the Internet for the same amount of time and it’s gotten MUCH worse.
  
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  - libra00@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I mean everybody has their own experience so I’m not gonna tell you you’re wrong, but that’s not been my experience.
    
    I spent more than 10 years playing text-based roleplaying games (MUSHes) from like ~1993 on, and even people who had multiple scenes a day that were well beyond short story length were frequently just god-awful at spelling. I had a lot of bad habits I picked up from back then that I’ve had to break, some of which (misspelling ‘separate’ as ‘seperate’, f.ex) that still get me sometimes. So at the very least there has been no shortage of awful spelling in the early days of the internet.
    
    By the same token I now spend at least an hour or two a day reading lemmy, reddit, etc and usually several more playing video games where I should’ve been exposed to all this awful typing going on and I have not noticed an increase, much less one worthy of capital letters.
    
    So, I’m not saying it’s impossible, just that as someone who has spent a significant portion of their life reading text on the internet it doesn’t seem likely to me.
    
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- scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Yep it’s always been shit.
  
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remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
No, I think you does have point, I’ve been sawing that, too.

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- MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Look at Mr fancy pants here using punctuation like yer some kinda edumacated person of learneding
  
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- Cheradenine@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I scenes it to scenes it many time. OP is rite is got extream. Happnd all the sudden to
  
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- Asafum@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Youse*
  
  Et oak thoug we awl mess that juan.
  
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HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My spelling and grammar are a lot worse when I type on my phone. I also accidentally a word.

I don’t bother with correcting it since I don’t care.

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Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Don’t forget the internet is global. People for whomever English is a second language are much more common than they once were.

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes yes you and many others have pointed this dumb take out already. I’m also a second language English speaker, and no one in my family even speaks English or ever has, and I’d never make a mistake like this.
  
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- BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  True. Good point.
  
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- Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Came here to say that.
  
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Lemmy seems to have a pretty high number of non-native English speakers, particularly Germans and other Europeans. I think this leads to people making seemingly simple grammar mistakes while also appearing to know English well.

Plus, American schools have completely gone to shit, so I’m sure that doesn’t help either.

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- ApollosArrow@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This was going to my answer as well. While spelling on the internet is pretty bad, English isn’t the primary language of many people on Lemmy.
  
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pleasestopasking@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I think this is finally being corrected, but for decades kids have been taught “whole word reading” rather than phonics. The basic idea is that instead of learning how to sound out words, they should look at the first letter and guess what they think the word might be based on context/pictures. The proponents of this method claim kids will memorize words as “whole words” and eventually be able to read.

So, they can’t actually read. But they know how to look like they can read.

When you can’t read it’s not enjoyable, so you read less. When you read less you come across fewer words, which you don’t really know how to decode anyway because you were never taught.

Anyway these kids are now adults, and even the ones who are smart still struggle with spelling and reading.

Check out the podcast Sold a Story, really interesting investigation on this topic.

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Phonics is dogshit and it’s being phased out in favour of whole word reading here.
  
  You should not learn spelling by “sounding out” much of anything, you should learn it through reading text and remembering how words are spelled.
  
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  - partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You might want to look at the latest research. Its not favorable after decades of data from “whole word” reading techniques education.
    
    you should learn it through reading text and remembering how words are spelled.
    
    Thats the concept of “whole word”, yes, but in practice it severely limits vocabulary and comprehension apparently. That real world data tells the tale.
    
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  - XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    At average apparent text sizes, you only see ~4 letters clearly at a time, so it’s often enough that you can’t read a whole word at once. From there, there’s so many prefixes, suffixes, conjugations, compounds, and portmanteaus that it doesn’t make sense to just try to memorize the dictionary. What happens when you’re reading a flamboyant author that has tons of theasaraus usage and you come across words you’ve never heard in your life? You use context as best you can, but if there’s familiar roots in the word, you have a better chance of understanding it.
    
    Also
    
    spelt
    
    That is a grain spelled “spelt”
    
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- nimpnin@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This made me look up “whole word reading”, and it just made me irrationally angry. To be fair, English isn’t my native language and I don’t have a recollection of learning how to read, but “whole word learning” sounds insane. But like… Why would you do that if you are using an alphabet?
  
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Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My mobile spelling has gotten to be garbage because my phone keyboard autocorrects Sometimes and I’ve gotten lazy about Swype/deleting mid-word mistakes. My pen/paper and also physical keyboard spelling remains persnickety

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- tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  my phone corrects “the” to “Tue”. Thanks phone, exactly what I was going for apparentl
  
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  - Tujio@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Mine autocorrects “the” to “ther” sometimes. Not even a damn word.
    
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  - Subtracty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    My phones autocorrect has been garbage recently. I feel like a few years ago, it was much better at predicting what I meant to type, and I could easily edit on mobile using the suggested corrections. But now it is worse. Even with words or names I use all the time.
    
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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  See, I legitimately can’t even tell if you’re trolling or not.
  
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  - spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I turned off autocorrect because it was changing valid words into other words. Having an obvious typo is preferable to changing the meaning completely, which happened enough times for me to notice.
    
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thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s not just spelling, even online people don’t even bother using grammar. They literally stuff 4 different sentences in one line without using commas or periods. It’s maddening, honestly.

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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I absol loathe posts that just say something like “This dog.”
  
  This dog WHAT, bozo.
  
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  - hedge_lord@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    This dog murdered my family okay it is a really bad dog and it’s evil and bad but also really cute so idk if I can hold a grudge against it but what it can hold against me is the gun that it has pressed to my temple because it has forbidden me from using any punctuation in this run-on paragraph
    
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x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Most of the people you interact with online aren’t native English speakers.

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- 3xBork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I get the feeling it’s the native speakers who are the worst offenders. The ones using English as a second language at the very least made an effort to learn the language.
  
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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Including myself you absolute dense motherfucker. Did you read the thousands of other retards making this same point ITT before you and really decide to say it again? Or can you not read? Go fuck yourself either way. Blocked.
  
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  - x00z@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Lmao.
    
    What an awful individual.
    
    Not to mention I wrote my comment before anyone else.
    
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s been awful for a while.

All the too/to/two or their/they’re/there kind of wreckage along with stuff like “for all intensive purposes”, “flee market”, or “diffuse the situation”. There’s tons of writing like thAt everywhere. Wouldn’t be so bad if people learned when corrected, but I think most can’t be bothered.

My take is that people don’t read anymore and there’s probably an unhealthy dose of laziness and “gotta write all messed up to act cool” to boot.

Reading well-written books of any sort will help fix how words go together and how they look. But today everyone reads everyone else’s shitty grammar, spelling, and whatever massacre of stylistic choices were made to stand out and look cool in the comment section of the youtube videos or tiktoks they just watched. That’s probably the extent of the reading they do.

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Avenging5@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Ayi wudnt sei its oful, jast difarent

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- SirQuack@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Been hitting the rum supply again, ye scallywag?
  
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jaxxed@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I blame these f’ing phone keyboards and autocorrect. I can’t see what I am touching, I can’t feel it, there’s no feedback, and I have to look up while I type. Whoever came up with approach deserves… A bad case of indigestion.

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wildwhitehorses@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m burnt out man. I just dont have the energy or the careth to be accurate or even care about a small thing.

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- Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  carrot*
  
  spoiler
  /s
  
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  - faythofdragons@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    No, he just doesn’t carrot all.
    
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gnu@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
It’s not a recent thing, but I would say there has been a decline over the last decade or so. Not only does it seem like spelling and grammar are getting worse but I feel it is much more likely these days to find comments defending improper English rather than correcting it.

I saw someone spell “extreme” as “extream” which is just kind of baffling, I actually can’t even imagine how one would make such a mistake?

Maybe they had just come from dealing with large quantities of paper? Or enlarging a bunch of holes?

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- 3xBork@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Anti-intellectualism has been on the rise for decades and spelling gets worse? I am *shocked *I tell you!
  
  Also: inb4 the “language evolves!” crowd arrives.
  
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  - LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    So true. People are likely being fucked up by poor autocorrect algos, as I noticed even mine messing up and turned it off outright, because I blind type like 89wpm on my phone anyway so I’m fine without it. Then they’re defending it like ignorant fools that they are, reasoning backwards and perpetuating anti-intellectualism
    
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  - Irelephant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Both are true.
    
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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Increased reliance on touch screen devices with dodgy autocorrect probably accounts a good chunk of it.

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HiddenLychee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’ve noticed mine got worse for some reason in the last five years. So many words that I’ve had no issue spelling I’ve lost confidence in spelling and need to look it up. Happened around COVID for me, not sure why.

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- Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Brain damage from stress lol. I find myself occasionally typing “there” instead of “their” and have to catch myself. I always reread what I type before sending so I fix it before sending, but I never made this mistake before. Somehow, over the years, probably from stress of various kinds (and this dates back to pre-COVID), I began to process language aurally and less visually, so if it sounds close enough and I’m not really thinking about what I’m typing, I’ll use the wrong word.
  
  I’ve never typed “payed” before, though, and I see that across Reddit increasingly. It’s just crazy that that and “could/would of” have exploded over recent years.
  
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  - LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sounds? You pronounce words as you type?
    
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collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I would not be surprised if autocorrect was a major culprit along with phone keyboards. You can type something correctly and have autocorrect make it wrong. It’s also super easy to get the wrong letter if you have normal sized hands and are typing on a phone keyboard. I have turned autocorrect completely off and am significantly less error prone as a result.

I frequently decide against correcting an error if I think my intention is clear, and I am in a hurry. I don’t really care what strangers on the internet think of my editing skills.

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- Raiderkev@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I hate this. For instance, using u instead of you, autocorrect often turns it to I. It also will fucking “correct” your to you’re when you typed your on purpose. I’m ready to just turn it off. It fucks up my posts, texts, emails all the time. I don’t have this issue on my laptop.
  
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  - collapse_already@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    I think you mean it will ducking correct…
    
    I turned mine off completely because it has bo comprehension of when an apostrophe is appropriate in front of the letter s. Forever making words possessive that were intended to be plural. Apostrophes do not mean “look out, here comes an s.”
    
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LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I no phone gudz mane.

No, but really typing on a glass slab sucks. The software sucks ass too and seemingly no OEM is interested in improving it or trying something new.
Android’s spellchecker sucks at handling 2 languages at once so I gotta turn it off and rely on the keyboards auto correct.
Both FUTO and Heliboard insist on not correcting obvious misspellings or change correct words to nonexistent ones.

I’m convinced we’ve gotten the maximum we can out of the touchscreen QWERTY format. EIther we get a new Blackberry KeyOne style device or we get some stenography-like software innovation that converts vibes to words, I dunno.

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- coaxil@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I am pretty sure android is getting worse at correcting input and also changes words after the fact as you type, coupled with phones are awful to type on, results in this fucking mess we get now days.
  
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- starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Big tech realised that touch screen keyboards are cheaper to manufacture (develop) than physical keyboards and persuaded everyone that touch screen keyboards are better. Absolutely not. Screw touch screen keyboards.
  
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AstroLightz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
wu7 u m34n, m8? 4lw4y5 b33n l1k3 d15. /s

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- RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  wuseven u mthreefourncomma meightquestion mark fourlwfouryfive bthreethreen lonekthree donefivedot slashs
  
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- sga@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I don’t know what is concerning, me knowing how to read this, or being able to read this even when I am not from a sms generation (not that i am very youung, but where i live, sms was very expensive, so many people did not message untill we had internet based messengers)
  
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floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I think that it’s mostly just Lemmy being less dominated by native English speakers. Many of those mistakes that seem baffling “make sense” in some other languages

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Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My older friend and i were talking about this a about 6 months ago. We both are convinced auto correct functions are getting worse. I suspect AI injection into the function somehow, but tin foil hat me also thinks it’s strategy to force more people to use microphone. Seems way more valuable to data miners

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- LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think you’re onto something there.
  
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  - Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Whats that futurama meme? I dont know if i should be happy that if im correct or angry that im not wrong?
    
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- SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  For me auto correct has a BIG problem when I miss a dubbel consonant. It will start suggesting words that doesn’t have a single letter in common with what I’m trying to spell, it will suggest completely wrong words and it will even suggest nonsensical words that doesn’t exist. Everything except the exact word I have spelt, but with two s instead of one.
  
  Like yesterday I was trying to spell I believe it was “Necessary” but I had spelt “nesesary” and it was like did you mean “Acceptances” “approval” “appel” “sope” “opposition” “operation” “passport” like that isn’t even close to what I’m am trying to type.
  
  So I can completely believe auto correct have gotten worse and AI dose seem like a likely suspect.
  
  Especially the times when I completely don’t know what I am trying to spell but it gets that “Trioqulationitasitq” is supposed to be “tribulation”
  
  I don’t know how in the world it can do that but think nesesary is supposed to be approval.
  
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  - Jarix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Oooh good tip, ill have to start paying attention to that
    
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letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You’re not crazy. Nobody wants their grammar correcting; they lash out and call people who do that “grammar nazis” instead of thanking them for helping them improve. So they get to post whatever they like, and of course as more people see stuff spelt incorrectly they assume that’s correct and use those errors themselves, but intentionally. And of course the dictionary writers realise they are descriptive, not proscriptive, so the argument “the dictionary says…” is voided.

Autocorrect is OK to an extent but it’s not smart enough yet to understand what people are actually saying. So it gets switched off.

Also it is worth mentioning that English is a complex language with many inconsistencies. “extream” is incorrect, but “stream” isn’t, and that “eam/eme” is pronounced the same way. So “extream” is at least understandable. It’s similar to “ect” instead of “etc”, which is commonly mispronounced as “ek-setera” so you can see why people think the C is after the E.

I used to try to help people a lot but just got a whole load of abuse back. These days I only query something if I genuinely can’t grok what they’re trying to say. Or I just ignore it. If the question is so badly garbled that I can’t understand it I just assume they won’t be able to understand may answer, which will probably be quite detailed.

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demeaning_casually@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Who THE FUCK cares?

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southsamurai@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I, mean its only. Natural that weerd thangs criep into comments here und their

But it’s been something increasing over time. Some of it is people just not paying attention, some of it is them relying on autocorrect and not spending the time to check what gets autoed. But, a lot of it is that people can’t spell for shit, and don’t care that they can’t.

And, to be fair, as long as the basic idea of what you’re saying gets across, how much effort is required? In your example, extreme vs extream, while one is correct, they both sound the same, and they even read the same. So if a person is just approximating the sound of the word, and never ran across it, do they have an obligation to go looking?

Now, obviously, extreme would be an unusual word to never have seen in print since it was over used in marketing for a long time. I’d expect xtreme to be the misspelling to show up. But even with a word that over saturated, does it matter?

I say no, it doesn’t really matter. Yeah, I’d still offer someone the correct spelling, but that’s just as a point of conversation rather than any obligation they have to spend their time and energy on vocabulary and/or spelling. As long as they aren’t giving me shit for having put in time and effort into mine, and it’s close enough to guess; or they’re willing to communicate about that they meant if it isn’t easy to guess.

For real, it does make my brain scream at me when I run across it. But that’s my problem, not theirs.

Seriously, not everyone cares enough to edit it up. Why should they?

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Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
A majority have always been bad at spelling

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- scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  A majorrity have always been bad at spelllng
  
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  - Fingolfinz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Exactly
    
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I make more spelling mistakes when autocorrect is on than when it’s off (and every little update to the os seems to re-enable it 😬) because it constantly wants to change words that were spelled correctly, to a different word that doesn’t fit the context.

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BlackSheep@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Completely agree. I cringe on a regular basis. I never know if it’s “stylistic”, typos, laziness? Sentence structure has also gone for shit.

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Puzzlehead@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
My phone is stupid and will automatically correct on its own to giggerish or to other words that makes no sense. That’s why I do so many edits. I don’t always catch the errors.

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- acchariya@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  This is the real cause. Tech peaked and has since gobe to dogshit monetization, ai-ification and ultimately idiocrification.
  
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Gen alpha hasn’t really been taught how to spell and they think grammar is stupid.

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independantiste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Idk i ditnt notise anyting unujual

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