Online Disinhibition Effect

These text pieces examine the unique behaviour and language that occur when people become detached and disembodied from their person in digital space.

This known as the 'online disinhibition effect', which is the loosing or complete abandonment of social restrictions or inhibitions that would normally be present in face-to-face interactions, This results in dissociative anonymity and anti-social behaviour online.

I examined this behaviour in the comment sections of websites, like YouTube, and personal ads, and experimented with using this language to subvert hallmarks of courting and romance to contrast and abstract the surreality of this behaviour, and also to conjure a sense of nostalgia for the more earnest way people expressed themselves (pre-internet) that seems to be absent now.