sigh, it's not a new trend. it's just yet another pop-cultural appropriation from the gay community, now mainstream thanks to ai. as trump's gay dementia progresses, pretty soon even he will be truthing about other men's asses in lowercase, just to get a rise out of them!!! however, the *sshole project's shibboleths of lowercasing and anal asterisk punctuation strongly suggest its authors may be bona fide members of the lgbtq+ community.

why do gay people love typing in lowercase?

https://thetastefultwink.substack.com/p/the-queer-lowercase

> Let’s sit and twink about the data. 24.6% of my 19,000+ respondents abandoned capitalization entirely. If you control for age, queer people were 1.5x more likely than straight people to type in lowercase. Lesbians out-lowercased every other sexuality at 28.3%, followed by bisexuals at 24.9%. Honorable mention to the lowercase enbies, at 29.2%.

New and Changing Social Evaluations of All-lowercase and Exclamation Points

https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/edbc...

> both exclamation points and lowercase usage are associated with queer identity.