A Moment of Silence for Dvorak Users

Sure, a lot of these patterns relate to the fact that we’re mashing on the home row of the QWERTY keyboard rather than using random-letter generators, but they’re reinforced by our social expectations. I conducted an informal survey, asking if people retype their keysmash if it doesn’t look, er, smashing enough. While there were a few keysmash purists, who posted whatever came out, I found that the majority of people will delete and remash if they don’t like what it looks like, plus a significant minority who will adjust a few letters. I also heard from several people who use the Dvorak keyboard, where the home row begins with vowels rather than ASDF, who reported that they just don’t bother keysmashing anymore at all because their layout makes it socially illegible. Keysmashing may be shifting, though: I’ve noticed a second kind, which looks more like “gbghvjf-fbghch” than “asaflksflk,” from thumbs mashing against the middle of a smartphone keyboard. a moment of silence for Dvorak users trying to appear submissive

The meme shows a long explanatory passage about keysmashing conventions on QWERTY, Dvorak, and smartphone keyboards, followed by a caption mourning Dvorak users who cannot produce socially recognizable submissive keysmashes. The joke is that the Dvorak keyboard's home row produces vowels instead of the familiar ASDF-style gibberish, making users look less submissive in internet conversations. EN: The meme shows a long explanatory passage about keysmashing conventions on QWERTY, Dvorak, and smartphone keyboards, followed by a caption mourning Dvorak users who cannot produce socially recognizable submissive keysmashes. The joke is that the Dvorak keyboard's home row produces vowels instead of the familiar ASDF-style gibberish, making users look less submissive in internet conversations.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 7401 2023-03-19