#<<this part is 100% sarcasm because there is no effective way to accurately communicate nuances of tone one hundred percent of the time

[spockandawe]

asking people on the internet to understand your tone without any tone indicator isn't the way to go. we cannot sense tone on text like this. Please use proper tone indicators or any simply make a statement about your tone next time <33 would be better and cause less mess

to explicitly, very clearly, very sincerely mark my tone:

If I get feedback like this on a weeks-old post, where i already walked back the emotional knee-jerk part of my response and spent like an hour plus doing a postmortem on my tone and how effectively i communicated and how conversation devolved (though i don’t admit any like... wrongdoing, lmao), I am deeply, deeply confused about whether a message like this is sincere, patronizing, or sarcastic. 

I don’t know! Hilariously, not enough tone indicators. Usually, the weeks-old context would be enough for me to settle on sarcasm, but the way it rehashes what I already spent a lot of time and effort saying would bring me around to patronizing, but the nature of this specific subject matter is just jarring enough to make me doubt either of those diagnoses. Unless insufficient tone indicators are part of the joke? But there are hearts? But hearts are also highly contextual and modulate based on tone and are both usable in sincerely helpful and in hostile situations????

I’m not making assumptions, but I am very uncertain, and this is going to chew at me all day ;u; If I’m missing something horribly obvious here, blease tell me. Dc al coda with the tonal declarations, i am sincerely confused about this, and the hilarious nature of being so truly confused about an interaction regarding this specific subject matter will eat at me forever, and i am dying of curiosity.