jthrash 2022-07-02 19:14:42

It’s such a Catch-22 because people and companies have destroyed their entire reputations by making poorly-worded and too-brief Tweets. EA, for instance, is getting a ton of flak for joining in on the “You’re a 10, but…” trend to lightly poke fun at single-player games, and now they have to do a ton of damage control because of their history of screwing over single-player franchises like Dungeon Keeper and Mass Effect and concern from older players that EA is still trying to kill single-player gaming from the mainstream in favor of FOMO-gambling-multiplayer-only “live-service” games. At the same time, people seem to only expect instant gratification from the Internet at all times and will mock you for being wordy even if you manage to cram your nuanced political opinion in only two sentences, because that second sentence is still too much reading for them.

It definitely seems more expected to read a lot in blog posts as opposed to comment sections, and Twitter in particular seems to be picking up that there’s a market for more nuanced (and inevitably verbose) discussion with their new Twitter Blog feature I heard about, and how Tumblr and even Newgrounds blogs here are never truly going away. I guess it’s our job to read the room and comment accordingly. The Oney Plays comment section certainly doesn’t respond well to long comments, for instance.