My guess is it was accidentally done by people watching too many streamers who would intentionally call the group of chatters as chat. It was then done ironically as a way to illicit a reaction on something as a streamer did. Then became more regular nomenclature to query a group
Well, yes, very clearly it’s a “man on screen said it” situation, but it’s not like that’s new.
People who repeated “ground control to {insert name}” to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn’t believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It’s an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.
My real name starts with Chat and since it’s a little difficult to pronounce if you don’t know French I use it as a nickname.people always asking me weird questions on the Internet.
Chat is cat in French, so not all wrong. My real name means something similar to “to shimmer like a cat’s eye”, and has the same root word as chatoyancy.
If I can recall, chat was a term used in old IRC rooms, too. Just fads coming back around. Its just like “groovy” or “bees knees”. Every gen has their slang.
Its literally too much stress for me to get irritated over something so small. I have enough stress already. We all do. Save yourself a pointless wrinkle, friend.
Yeah, I hit a few rooms that said ‘chat’, but it wasn’t really a solid thing. That was the fun part of not having centralized social platforms. Each room had its own thing, and it was hilarious when you said something that was popular in one room in another and found someone you knew from that same room.
Your second paragraph should’ve been your clue. The “chat” they’re talking about is the chat attached to a YouTube or Twitch stream. It’s influencer brainrot slang.
Funny moments get shared between friends and spreads its reach -> Long form reaction content creates sharable moments -> Livestreams generate long form reaction content -> Livestreams have a chat that accompanies the streamer -> Streamer refers to chat during funny moments -> This is referenced as a meme -> Talking to chat spreads beyond the original context
… If you do it occasionally, when contextually appropriate… it is funny, a self aware reference to how they spend a lot of time on twitch streams, and are expressing disbelief.
When you do it all the time, reflexively, regardless of context… yeah, that may indicate that that just is your baseline norm for social interaction and you fundamentally cannot or do not distinguish between the contexts of online interaction and irl interaction.
There a whole lot of kids now who are just basically raises from near birth by screens. Parents with no free time or parents who don’t give a shit just give the kid a distraction rectangle so they don’t have to … raise them.
Chat just became synonymous with readers/listeners in modern slang. I also went through my “old man yells at cloud” phase about it, but it’s fine, I guess. I still get annoyed when people say the name of twitch emotes, though.
I think a lot of young people see content creation as the only way they can make the money they want/need. I think many of them idolize streamers/content creators, and so they emulate them however they can. Part of that is dreaming to eventually have a ‘chat’ to say ‘chat’ to.
Life in the social media age is one in which identity is developed performatively through profilicity. People from the earlier eras created themselves in the face of the Big Other, often as God, or as the crowd of society at large, their families, etc. Younglings of the new age have personified the Big Other as the digital crowd, imagined viewers of their life-as-livestream.
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My guess is it was accidentally done by people watching too many streamers who would intentionally call the group of chatters as chat. It was then done ironically as a way to illicit a reaction on something as a streamer did. Then became more regular nomenclature to query a group
Well, yes, very clearly it’s a “man on screen said it” situation, but it’s not like that’s new.
People who repeated “ground control to {insert name}” to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn’t believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It’s an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.
Chat, can we get some protein pills for major tom
Lol bro younger generations just say random shit to sound cool.
I’m remembering how many times I said “epic” or phonetically pronounced “lulz” in every day speech when I was younger. It’s just something kids do.
I had a friend who said “el mayo” out loud.
It was me.
I used to do “le mayo” instead.
I still do.
Its always be le Mao to me
That’s actually funny tho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
My real name starts with Chat and since it’s a little difficult to pronounce if you don’t know French I use it as a nickname.people always asking me weird questions on the Internet.
Username checks out, if suspiciously Japanese.
I never said I wasn’t a weeb as well…
You’re ChatGPT! I knew it!
/ Cat, I farted
Chat is cat in French, so not all wrong. My real name means something similar to “to shimmer like a cat’s eye”, and has the same root word as chatoyancy.
hope the cloud heard you
Tbf, the zoomer/boomer thing is in the same vein.
If I can recall, chat was a term used in old IRC rooms, too. Just fads coming back around. Its just like “groovy” or “bees knees”. Every gen has their slang.
Its literally too much stress for me to get irritated over something so small. I have enough stress already. We all do. Save yourself a pointless wrinkle, friend.
i don’t remember using “chat”, i remember using “all”, but different rooms had different cultures.
Yeah, I hit a few rooms that said ‘chat’, but it wasn’t really a solid thing. That was the fun part of not having centralized social platforms. Each room had its own thing, and it was hilarious when you said something that was popular in one room in another and found someone you knew from that same room.
Your second paragraph should’ve been your clue. The “chat” they’re talking about is the chat attached to a YouTube or Twitch stream. It’s influencer brainrot slang.
Funny moments get shared between friends and spreads its reach -> Long form reaction content creates sharable moments -> Livestreams generate long form reaction content -> Livestreams have a chat that accompanies the streamer -> Streamer refers to chat during funny moments -> This is referenced as a meme -> Talking to chat spreads beyond the original context
I think it comes from streamers who might legitimately ask their viewers, who are partaking in the stream through a chat, “chat, is this X?”
… If you do it occasionally, when contextually appropriate… it is funny, a self aware reference to how they spend a lot of time on twitch streams, and are expressing disbelief.
When you do it all the time, reflexively, regardless of context… yeah, that may indicate that that just is your baseline norm for social interaction and you fundamentally cannot or do not distinguish between the contexts of online interaction and irl interaction.
There a whole lot of kids now who are just basically raises from near birth by screens. Parents with no free time or parents who don’t give a shit just give the kid a distraction rectangle so they don’t have to … raise them.
lmao I’m gonna start to say goodbye like that XD
I’m going to try it with my fiancée when she goes to work tomorrow and see if she gives me her ring.
I’ll report back my findings.
Lol taking one for the team like a boss
I did that once with my nephews at the end of a video call and they laughed their ass off. My sister couldn’t understand what was so funny about that.
Chat just became synonymous with readers/listeners in modern slang. I also went through my “old man yells at cloud” phase about it, but it’s fine, I guess. I still get annoyed when people say the name of twitch emotes, though.
This is a gen Alpha thing, please do not associate us with those creatures.
That seems more like the result of bad parenting.
I think a lot of young people see content creation as the only way they can make the money they want/need. I think many of them idolize streamers/content creators, and so they emulate them however they can. Part of that is dreaming to eventually have a ‘chat’ to say ‘chat’ to.
Makes me pretty sad, tbh.
“chat” is this Lemmy thread, in this example. it addresses the audience. it’s the streamer equivalent of breaking the fourth wall.
Life in the social media age is one in which identity is developed performatively through profilicity. People from the earlier eras created themselves in the face of the Big Other, often as God, or as the crowd of society at large, their families, etc. Younglings of the new age have personified the Big Other as the digital crowd, imagined viewers of their life-as-livestream.
Munky see munky doo