• z00s@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      This is one of my constant frustrations on Lemmy too. People constantly dropping abbreviations with no explanation, assuming their cultural background is universal.

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        6 months ago

        Yeah, it’s like these foreign language posts. Don’t they know not everyone speaks German?

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        6 months ago

        AMV has been around for years now. Plus, this was likely posted to a community that knows what an amv is and never intended for here

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          6 months ago

          The guy who posted it here should have expanded the initialism

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            I don’t know if I’ve ever heard the initialism AMV or not (though I’ve watched plenty of them), but even not knowing what it was it was pretty easy to figure out from context (though i thought “animated” instead of “anime”, but close enough anyway)

            Some acronyms and initialisms, I don’t really get why they’re so hard for people, especially in context

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              6 months ago

              They’re not, people just like to complain and have things handed to them. In that order.

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            6 months ago

            Yeah, I can remember them from the early YouTube days, but I wasn’t 100% certain if it had been decades yet >!and I didn’t want to think about how old I’m getting!<

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        It is wild that this post about a harmless abbreviation that refers to cringey (but endearing to me) narrow slice of early-mid 2000s internet culture got this reaction out of you. Something that could be ignored or looked up.

        Be it Lemmy or the communities you stumble upon, but perhaps some introspection about how you respond and interact with the internet could use a revisit.

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        6 months ago

        Sometimes this is totally fair, but I think any abbreviation that instantly comes up on google is fair game. IIRC, TIL, AMV, BRB, IRL, IKR, etc.

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        6 months ago

        plugs “what is AMV” into DDG

        Answer received after 4 seconds of reading

        I’m sorry, but this is a skill issue.

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          Now I’m embarrassed. Did you plug “what is AMV” into a rapper from Michigan, or a guided missile?

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            If this isn’t a lesson in situational irony, I don’t know what is!

            I’m using DDG to mean duckduckgo. Google would’ve made more sense, but I do not like google. Sorry for the confusion!

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          Yeah who doesn’t know about the Patria AMV armoured personnel carrier?

          Doing this occasionally isn’t so bad but I’ve noticed it happening much more frequently on Lemmy lately