#but the argument for ot being a 4th person pronoun was resting upon the argument for it breaking the 4th wall. so it seemed.

[dragonlights]

Rb'd that post that I reblogged another post saying it was dumb before I saw the original post. And the original was a fairly interesting take! And well-worded, and as I do, I went on a tag rambling about my thoughts.

And the more I went the more intensely I'm just like.

The fourth wall is the wall between fiction and reality!! Specifically!!! Between the story and the folks hearing a story!!!

If the streamer is acting In the way of a narrator, then that's... Almost valid? In the way narrators are sometimes also fictional characters in that universe. And are also telling you a story.

But it's not said a showman is breaking the 4th wall by addressing a crowd- but a storyteller might, even in person, if it served the narrative. It's not the screen- physically- that is a 4th wall, it's the wall between fiction and reality.

But dragon, you may ask, what of the roles We play as people?

And that's valid too! There's an argument to be made for, if you're actively fictionalizing yourself as a Streamer or Internet Entertainer, isn't it a fourth wall break?

And like. Maybe! If you're playing a character? I guess?? Like. But that doesn't make chat inherently a new 4th person pronoun- I genuinely don't know if this is a grammatical thing to begin with, tbh, or just something being used as 'a pronoun to refer to those on the Other Side of the 4th wall'

Though, it can be used in that way, in fiction. I've seen some games that have a steamer doing a stream type thing going, and if they used 'chat' there, It could conceivably be referring to a audience of a character.