What happened to the internet to make it so that you now have to say “I’m not a medical expert, a beauty expert, an underpaid Walmart cashier struggling just to make ends meet just to lose my job to a robot or a piercing expert so take my advice with a grain of salt, but yeah, I think it would be wonderful for you get your ears pierced”?
I’m probably aging myself here, but it’s mildly annoying to see so many words for something that should just be assumed until someone explicitly says “I’m an expert, make sure you clean them regularly or don’t get them at all”.
The earrings are just a random example I thought of just now.
(This is somewhat satire, somewhat curiosity and somewhat ranty lol)
EDIT: Thanks for the insightful history lesson guys! I actually learned a little bit about the internet (at the risk of really honing in on my age lmao). I feel I should clarify, though. The issue I want to address isn’t the use of disclaimers in general, but rather the need for exceptionally long ones like my example above where the disclaimer is like 5x longer than the actual comment, which, btw, thank you all for commenting at least 5x more information than disclaimers lol
If you don’t anticipate literally every possible negative counter to what you say, as well as intricately carve every sentence into a laser focused, concise, and yet somehow comprehensive statement, people will endlessly needle you.
There is a tendency for people to seek out The least charitable interpretation of your statements and unfortunately it’s on you to anticipate and fend them off or the conversation becomes completely derailed because you used one specific word (or didn’t) or some other nonsense.
The moment somebody starts arguing with you, they will take every single word incredibly literally and refuse to infer anything. Your intention means nothing, the word you chose and how they can twist it means everything