#FuckingHashtags

Ok I HAD to write this post, this shit is driving me crazy …

Not a day goes by that I don’t see someone posting on social media with 3 or 4 supposedly hilarious hashtags that I can’t read for the life of me. And I’m pretty good, when people post those pics with numbers where letters are, I can usually make them out pretty easily. I cannot however make out a huge ass hashtag that blends together in a line of 30 or 40 characters.

Do I care too much about this shit?

Yes, probably.

I can’t help it though, when I see something like these pics it just boggles my mind that the person posting that shit, doesn’t realize how hard it is for other people to understand.

You see this in PAID advertising posts, how can supposed ‘marketing professionals’ get away with something so OBVIOUSLY fucking ridiculous?

This is how it should be done.

<< Here is a pic from my instagram feed.

YES, this goes against everything you were taught in middle school, that capitalizing every word was BAD, but we live in a new age, its a bold new day for the english language so go ahead and capitalize the shit out of your hashtags. This is what we would call #SentenceCase

HOWEVER, notice how I didn’t capitalize #nerds, there is no need when just a single word.

I get it.

instagram defaults to all lower case hashtags, so that means you, YOU the human who is posting the content has to consciously make a decision to override the default and type with meaning.

OK, please go forward and fix this egregious assault on our senses.