And, anecdotally, people are less self-conscious about the kind of language they use to talk to their dogs, so they're probably more willing to use slang or cute terms or affectionate terms.
#Synonym pervasive Offline#
“It started as an offline word it's very pronounceable it doesn't rely on punctuation or capitalization or any sort of typographical tricks to make it legible. “It definitely has all of the characteristics of a word that could very easily go from online to offline,” McCulloch says.
The term's best chance of survival is its potential internet-to-IRL crossover appeal. “I'd say within the past six months, I’ve started to use doggo a little bit less because it doesn't invoke the same reaction that it once did.” The question now is, will doggo stick around? WeRateDogs’ Nelson has seen a fall in the term’s popularity and has subsequently curtailed his own use of it. But dogs, especially other people’s puppers, can be photographed and shared with Instagram or Facebook from almost anywhere.) Felines dominated when people could only upload pictures from their homes, where kittehs rule. (The rise of the smartphone camera could also partially explain a longstanding internet trope: the early internet is for cats and the social internet is for dogs. And sometimes, those photos are of dogs.” “But now, you have a camera with you at all times that has internet connectivity and you can take photos of stuff in your environment and easily share them with people. And I wasn't going to do that for someone else's random dog!” she says. And, if I did, to get those photos off of the digital camera, I had to plug it into my computer, I had to find the cable, upload them, etc.
“Back when I had a digital camera, first, I didn't always have my digital camera on me. But McCulloch has another theory, one that often explains any shift in internet behavior: the rise of smartphones.
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