I definitely find it difficult, cognitively, for long-form writing. It's also the second time recently I've seen all-lowercase blog-post-length content, after previously having never seen it, so I wonder if something is happening culturally to pull text-message style formatting up into the rank of published content.
My guess is it’s meant to come off as more authentic and conversational, like an informal chat.
It's often used as a tone signifier: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/feb/18/death-of-cap...
Yeah, I suspect that's the intention. There's a definitely a cultural break. To me, lowercase creates a casual tone in texts/chat. But in long form, especially published (i.e. purposefully displayed to an audience), it sends me a tone of disinterest or laziness at worst; or at best, simple innocent ignorance/mistakenness (like misspelling). Clearly neither is the case here though.
oh yeah i definitely agree! the tone communication can be useful but in longform writing it gets very grating and confusing/distracting. it's also just more social engineering to pretend to be authentic when one is clearly not.
i prefer this type of writing for comedy generally
Probably an article written by an LLM which has been instructed to look _more human_.
I guess time will tell if this is a new ‘thing’ people do ¯\_(ツ)_/¯