Comment by latexr

> Strange to label a failure to capitalize words

It’s not a failure, it’s a conscious choice.

> as I'm sure people have been doing that for many years prior to social media.

But now it’s happening more frequently. That’s what “trend” means. It doesn’t mean it never happened before.

> And nobody tYpEs lIkE tHiS except when making a joke.

Just because you don’t know people like that, does not mean they don’t exist. The world is bigger than one person’s knowledge. I personally knew several teenagers who did it for all their communication, before smartphones. The speed at which they were able to do it was astounding.