This post made me think of it as it’s a good example of this.
Every now and then I encounter writing like this (often it’s something someone is showing me) and I just read it, and then I re-read it and then I re-re-read it and my mind just stays completely blank and I have no clue of what it’s saying. This seems to be happening to me quite regularly and honestly I feel quite stupid. I’m wondering if this is some ADHD / autism thing, granted that english is not my first language. However, like I said, it’s not that I don’t understand the words - just not the meaning of them together.
I understood it with context clues. Reading things on the internet definitely feels like I am reading an entirely different language sometimes.
Sometimes when I am scrolling past things, I pickup the words wrong because the words are matched to the look of a word instead of what the word says because I am not actively reading. That results in me reading headlines very wrong because my stupid brain filled in too many gaps and error corrected the headline to say wild shit. I scroll up to find out more and see the mistake. I wish I had an example.
Without knowing the details or the reality of what is being discussed, I found the post pretty easy to parse:
there’s some trend where people are putting pictures of people/things they want to bone on cakes, women are putting all sorts of weird stuff on the cake, therefore the problem isn’t how attractive/unattractive you are.
It’s targeted at incels, it’s funny, and it makes sense even if I have no idea about the apecifics or if it ever really happened.
If someone on the internet can’t make heads or tails of this, I worry about their media literacy.