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cool kids are writing in all lowercase now. does that make you mad?

By Tiffany Ng · Wired · October 2026

cool kids are writing in all lowercase now. does that make you mad?

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"fear of capital letters has a gripped a generation, but they might not know it's part of a long, underground tradition."

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