I’m not, it’s twitch streamer lingo, I know. Asking this how OP did, in a post, like people posting here are OP’s parasocial fans, is just immensely disrespectful. Why not just ask “Is this real?”
Comment on Chat is this real
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 weeks agoI feel like you might be out of the loop here. I want to help. “Chat, [statement or rhetorical question]” has become a meme slang, like millennials calling dogs anything but dogs (pupper, good boi, heckin floof, etc). It comes from Twitch, AFAICT, where streamers use this unironically (and ironically) to interact with their chat.
LastJudgement@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
I don’t think so. It’s just gen Zalpha for “you guys” in my experience.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 5 weeks ago
it’s twitch streamer lingo
I’m not sure which came first, but in my friend group we often will use similar terminology in our group chats. “Hello chat, I just…” “Good morning chat, should I be concerned about…”
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
My name starts with Chat (real name too, but pronounced with Sh instead of a ch) and Chat/Chati are my nicknames. I know how Karens feel when memes use their names…
So Karens need to stop fucking whining, it ain’t that bad and some of us have been hearing people equate our name to shit since middle school and just chuckle.
flicker@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Your name is Shat?
I am so sorry.
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Using imperative mood for getting your own pants
Chat my pants
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
I had a real Don Glover moment too where I had heard people replace the Chat with shit but didn’t realize telling the people hiring me they could just call me Shat would sound weird.
Boss later told me how weird it was explaing to the team that Shat would be joining the team soon.
“He goes by Shat?”
“That’s what he told me.”