I will lock you up in a tower and eat the fucking key. I am going to throw you into the bog and whistle for the crows to laugh at you.
I am so glad cohost (in my neck of the woods at least) does not have young autistic dumbasses who think they need to clarify their tone on every goddamn thing. Y'all didn't think about the overthinking. Y'all didn't realize if I'm hit with a /genq I'm gonna be wondering why it's needed. Why and how it could have been read otherwise. What else could you have meant? Did you realize it could be meant another way and want me to be sure it's not that way? What if you're lying? What if you're doing that to mislead me? Y'all forget that the older you get with neurodivergencies, the more insane you get. Yeah we manage better but you can be damned sure the neurotic idiot dog in my head that wants me to think about something and think about it again and "can we be sure about this?" is VERY much present and yapping its fool head off.
My own autistic ass is gonna take you at your word about 90% of the time UNLESS there's certain formulaeic sentence structures at play that make me think you're being sarcastic. UNLESS what's being said seems so at odds with what's probably the genuine values or beliefs of the demographic speaking that I can be fairly sure it's a joke.
I don't need your /gen or your /genq or your /neu. If you need to put an /ex or a /th or a /hyp then that's on you for writing poorly enough that people don't know you're exaggerating or that you're actually too much of a wumple to pull off a threat or that you can't hyperbole well enough. And I sure as FUCK don't want to see /p (platonic), /a (alterous), /r (romantic) or /sx (sexual intent). This is how y'all are flirting? That's crazy. Have you tried just STATING IT.
What was good about tone tags was the essentials. Sometimes knowing when it's a joke or sarcastic is helpful. If I don't know you well enough to be able to parse your sense of humor or know what you would think or value, then I'm not gonna know what you'd be sarcastic about either.
The most annoying thing about this shit is that it does TRY to pull you into it as well. There is peer-pressure to engage in tone tagging as well. The problem is that if you don't do it to the same degree as the people you're around, they're going to think you're mad at them. And hell forbid you type in Proper Sentence Case like me because then OF COURSE you're scary and too serious and probably irate and oh god what did i do ;;
The most annoying thing about this is it cancels out all the minor interactions you could have with people that is very simply asking what they meant by something. And it's making you manage their feelings FOR them. If you DON'T put a /lh then everything must be terrible, actually. It takes away all opportunity to learn better communication and how to assert your own boundaries in some cases. I think it's easily paired with the DNI list problem.
On a tangent is I miss the casual flagging of boundaries on art. I would love knowing whether artists are cool with me being a horndog about their art or not. But you know what? It's easy to say "I hope you're cool with this when I say that: AWOOGA" and move on. And if they're not cool with it? I delete that and say something else nice and not horny.