the appeal of lowercase text

there's something just so pleasing about lowercase text. when i'm not writing for my blog 90% of the words i type are lowercase. the letter i is one of the few i actually regularly capitalize. writing this blog without doing that feels incredibly weird. every text message i send is lowercase, every discord message is lowercase. big letters are scary, capital letters are intimidating. same goes for punctuation. when someone ends a text message with a period, i think they're mad at me. not always of course, but there's some symbols in messages that just aren't needed sometimes. uppercase letters are professional. they're what companies use when they fire you, what junk mail uses to scam you. uppercase letters are the adults of the internet, and i don't want to be that. completely uppercase text is almost always read as yelling or screaming, but lowercase isn't seen as anything except regular text with less respect for the rules of the language. none of this is to say i don't use proper…