cool kids are writing in all lowercase now. does that make you mad?
fear of capital letters has a gripped a generation—but they might not know it's part of a long, underground tradition.
Via WIRED
the worst person you know probably writes in all lowercase.
they’ll tell you it’s an aesthetic choice, a testament to informality. they’re likely a twentysomething brooklyn resident like myself, bullish on being not the voice of their generation but a voice of a generation, and definitely guilty of posting performative notes-app screenshots and pseudointellectual, stream-of-consciousness “musings” that compare charli xcx to the pope.
what are they really up to, and do they know they’re participating in a long, exclusive, exclusionary…
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