I just feel like sharing this quote from a website about tone indicators.
Using "/j" ruins the joke!
To you, maybe, but think about how you can go into a sitcom, knowing full well that its genre is comedy and its intent is to make you laugh, and still find it funny.
If putting two characters at the end of your joke ruins the entire thing, maybe it wasn't all that funny to begin with.
Even though I don't use tone indicators much.
And sometimes use other stuff to indicate my tone, rather than saying "/srs", "/s" or even "/j".
I just wanted this out of my chest.
But yes, maybe it is a bit better to use an emoji or something to indicate that I was saying something that I wasn't serious about.
In the month of September, I'll allow myself to say those words that I had forbidden myself of saying.
But honestly, I think I'll feel more comfortable using these words outside this forum.
Because in this forum, I might feel like I'm seen as an "annoying airhead, who doesn't know how to be funny".
I know that words shouldn't affect me, but it did...
It is almost like when I was younger shaking my hands because I was deep in my own thoughts and imagination, but then an older relative of mine said something like "stop doing it, you look ridiculous" and mockingly imitated that thing I did.
Sorry, if I'm being too dramatic or something.
