4th person pronoun?

First person: Talking about oneself. I, me. Second person: talking about the listener. you, your. Third person: talking about someone who is not the speaker or listener. He/she/it/they Fourth person: Talking about total bullshit.

In this context, "Chat" is second-person plural, used by streamers to address the portion of their audience able to respond in the text chat that always accompanies these things. It does contrast with how a radio personality might address "listeners" because radio listeners don't usually have a method to respond in real time, so it's usually a rhetorical question; a streamer addressing the chat is asking for a response.

There are languages with a 4th person pronoun. The 3rd person is kind of the main character and the 4th someone else. That helps to disambiguate sentences like "The criminal shot the cop and drove away on his (own or the cop's) bike".

Or the "gay fanfiction problem": "He looked at him and lay his hands on his lap". Is it a happy ending or a sad one? That's one theory why gender in pronouns is so resilient: more often than not, the gendered pronoun can disambiguate which person is talked about. It doesn't always work, a 3rd/4rd person distinction is superior.

Why isn't that just 2nd person plural, like "y'all"?

Is it really that different than saying "Audience"? Or radio shows referring to "listeners"? Etc.

it's definitely 2nd person collective in its original usage and outside of its original usage it's not a pronoun because it doesn't replace a noun.

First person = someone describing their own point of view (ex: I, me)

Second person = someone being addressed (ex: you, y'all)

Third person = someone talking about someone else (ex: they, them)

Fourth person = the point of view of a collective group (ex: we, us)

I usually say "smash that like button" but ill throw in "chat" in the future to stay relevant with these kids.

Smash that like button if you agree with me chat

It's just a pronoun to address the Collective

It’s not even a pronoun in this context, it’s just a noun.

My pronouns are Chat/Commentor

Is this the uncanny valley of dril tweets? I have no idea what this means

me when i've taken half a class of english: bro chat is 4th person 🤓

"Everyone"?

I'll need to see some solid evidence and proof of this being done unironically before believing this.

Not to sound 105 but parasocial relationships as meaningful interaction bad.

It's just adapting to a world that is less connected by building bonds in a way that can be maintained in a disconnected world.

Maybe it's not all bad but I can't help but think our brains are definitely wired for in-person communication and it'll never totally fill that void.

Being an analog being in a digital world sucks.

My rl name starts with Chat and I introduce myself as such most places. It's pronounced differently though, since it's based on a French word. The Ch has an Sh sound. And yes, I know what that sounds like...

they are all constantly streaming, and they've crawled way, way down inside the Matrix

Chat: The perfect autistic pronoun

Maybe she should be more concerned that students are asking if her class is real.

Actually kinda fascinating, we're watching language evolve in real time

I actually think this is hilarious and approve

Probably has something to do with meat crayons video, I've been hanging out with some 20 year olds in discord and theh routinely make jokes based off this video.

https://youtu.be/Quhb0RMtfH4

But have they begun unwittingly emulating the ancient Greek chorus yet, or is this that? In either event, I'm amused, but slightly moreso with the former of entire groups addressing their situation

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