"Y'all" and "folks" -

[Iwasamwillbe]

Why do people on Twitter (and those significantly influenced by Twitter's internal "culture") constantly use the terms "y'all" and "folks", as if they were speaking some Southern dialect of American English, stereotypical accent and all? It's grating, it's annoying, it's dumb, and I don't get the point. Is it to appear more "folksy", more "down to earth"? Because frankly, most of the time they sound cringey and plain slimy, like they're aukwardly trying to pretend to be something they're not.

 

[Thomas Paine]

It's condescending niggerspeak. They use "y'all" and "folks" to mock white people who have been the majority users of those words for generations.

It's literally a racist dogwhisitle for other blacks to jump on whitey even though we invented all the social media and phones and computers and cars and infrastructure and shit they utilize every day.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

It is to let you know they keep hot sauce in their purse at all times.

 

[OfficerBagget]

I blame niggers because I'm a faggot, I'm also white and want nigger dick in my ass

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-folks/

 

[The Shadow]

I've noticed this too, and I don't get it. I prefer Aussie rules, just refer to everyone as "cunts".

 

[Thomas Paine]

Nigger detected.

 

[DuckSucker]

It used to be made fun of in order to mock Southerners (in general but also as being ignorant and having a twang or a bit of a slur because they arent cultured or educated), but around 2010 internet culture appropriated it and began using it to avoid the pronoun issue which was triggering people, right around when social justice was blowing up. They wanted to axe guys and girls, chicks and dudes and some other stuff too because GENDER IS NOT BINARY but that didnt gain traction.

 

[General Disarray]

They wanted to axe guys and girls, chicks and dudes and some other stuff too because GENDER IS NOT BINARY but that didnt gain traction.

What was the question?

 

[WhoBusTank69]

Yankees use it because black people use it because southerners use it.

 

[oldTireWater]

It is definitely a dog-whistle on the internet.

Unfortunately, my wife drawls "y'all" all the time because she wants to sound rural. It fucking sucks, but I'm too scared to tell her.

 

[Demonslayer1776]

Its explicitly to pander to troons. You might see it naturally from some people from the south, but the hipters are doing it for the "gender isn't binary and I can't assume anybodies gender" crap. When I first entered college they gave entire presentations on it, and it was not in an area anywhere near or with any relation to the South. Its just newspeak that attempts to insert itself by ripping off a previously accepted dialect.

 

[Fanatical Pragmatist]

I say yall because its easier than writing "you all" or "all of you" or even "you guys".

Its probably the only word that living in the South has imparted on my personal dialect.

 

[millais]

English lacks a monosyllabic 2nd-person plural pronoun, so they need to improvise one out of Southern colloquialism. And it sounds slightly less dumb than "youse"

 

[HeyYou]

Makes them seem more working class than they really are, I suppose.

 

[Cast Iron Pan]

It's condescending niggerspeak.

That's the reason. Black culture has been pushed to the fore of Western culture for so long its the primary source of culture for the commoners.

English lacks a monosyllabic 2nd-person plural pronoun, so they need to improvise one out of Southern colloquialism. And it sounds slightly less dumb than "youse"

Polysyllabism needs to be abolished. Er, words with more than one part need to end.

 

[some Sketchy dude]

English lacks a monosyllabic 2nd-person plural pronoun, so they need to improvise one out of Southern colloquialism. And it sounds slightly less dumb than "youse"

This thread is ridiculous, youse just don't understand how hard words with multiple syllables are.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Remember, if you ever see a folx in the wild, shoot on sight.

 

[Hylics]

Anyone on Law and Order: SVU who used the word folks was pedophile.

 

[OfficerBagget]

Anyone that disagrees with me is a nigger.

Wow just like how I call anyone that disagrees with me a faggot. Maybe we arnt so different, maybe we are just a couple of nigger faggots.