Why do people keep adding this to their comments? Are they checking notes? Why do they feel the need to point it out if they are? Why are they saying they are if they aren’t? It’s like me adding “scratching head” to my comment, which I just did, but I have no idea why that adds anything to the conversation.
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checks notes
It’s 80+ pages that only say “fuck”
We all got our verbal tics. Also an attempt to add some more complexity to our communication, since we’re missing things like facial expressions or body language or environmental cues.
I see it as “Looks back at history and sigh heavily” but with fewer words.
it actually reached its peak in 2018 per this slate article: https://slate.com/technology/2018/08/checks-notes-was-the-perfect-trump-era-twitter-joke-lets-let-it-die.html
It was a big Twitter meme, like Yo Dawg I Heard You Like…, or Hawk Tuah, or Trogdor or whatever. People hear funny thing, repeat funny thing.
Hell, I remember a time people just said “um”, “er” quietly and paused between words when they hadn’t thought the thought through.
Instead now they use ‘like’ as a space between words whilst the processing is still taking place.
It gets real confusing when what they’re explaining is the concept of similes.
Life, uh, finds a way Life… Finds a way Life [checks notes] finds a way
Life, finds a way Life [deep breath] finds a way Life [lean away from the microphone to breathe in] finds a way Life [scratches head] finds a way?
Life [gestures vaguely to day care center] finds a wayThey are performative modifiers to add visual context to text. Imagine you’re reading a script for a play. The author adds notes like some of the examples above, in a similar format, in order to better convey what they want the actors to do, by text alone, to better convey the author’s intent to the audience.
Check your autism, maybe you’ll figure it out
At least it’s becoming less common for people to start comments with “Imagine…”
Imagine all the people
I wonder if you can
[looks to audience]
Imagine being this concerned about typed memes
It’s the current trendy thing to say. Kind of like the term “executive dysfunction”
John Stewart on the Daily Show, look him up
Its similar to a dramtic… . . . . . . . .
…… … pause!
It’s :checksnotes: sarcasm.
checks notes
Not sure I didn’t write anything down I was just doodling
They used to say that prior to the computer phones. Now it is an antiquated saying that people use for fun.
Checks notes it’s for dramatization, joke, etc.
