its bc some neurodivergent people like myself cant tell the tone see how "i hate you /j" and "i hate you /srs" can have completely different meanings? (/j means joking and /srs means serious) tone indicators were made because its hard for some neurodivergent people to pick up on social cues so theyre used to avoid miscommunication
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Then ask?
But for example if your friend says "kys" (as a joke without indactors) and they log off because they gotta eat or summ you won't get a clarification immediately. Also, if someone who you're not familiar with calls you annoying without warning, you'd probably block them or never ask because you're intimidated. Just add a / and a letter and it's not hard just memorize 2 /j and /srs
Bruh. Why are you blocking people for calling you annoying? That’s more of a you problem then the strangers... anyways you wait for an answer like a regular person would also who tf gets intimidated from getting called annoying? If you wanted to know so badly if they were serious or joking you would ask not expect people to go out of their way to memorize a list of phrases that literally make no sense just because YOU didn’t get the joke or didn’t understand that they were serious or not. As I said just ask. If you have enough time to lecture people about tone indicators then you have enough time to ask a simple question :/
this is an example on why neurotypical people need to shut the fuck up!!