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My guess is it was accidentally done by people watching too many streamers who would intentionally call the group of chatters as chat. It was then done ironically as a way to illicit a reaction on something as a streamer did. Then became more regular nomenclature to query a group

Well, yes, very clearly it's a "man on screen said it" situation, but it's not like that's new.

People who repeated "ground control to {insert name}" to get the attention of someone whose mind was elsewhere didn't believe they were actually addressing an astronaut. It's an idiom born of the current cultural zeitgeist.

I think it's Gen Alpha, not Gen Z.

A friend of mine teaches middle school maths, and every kid in the class is striving to be an influencer or twitch streamer, no other aspirations in life.

Lol bro younger generations just say random shit to sound cool.

I'm remembering how many times I said "epic" or phonetically pronounced "lulz" in every day speech when I was younger. It's just something kids do.

Tbf, the zoomer/boomer thing is in the same vein.

If I can recall, chat was a term used in old IRC rooms, too. Just fads coming back around. Its just like "groovy" or "bees knees". Every gen has their slang.

Its literally too much stress for me to get irritated over something so small. I have enough stress already. We all do. Save yourself a pointless wrinkle, friend.

I think it comes from streamers who might legitimately ask their viewers, who are partaking in the stream through a chat, "chat, is this X?"

I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ

"don't forget to like and subscribe"

That seems more like the result of bad parenting.

I think a lot of young people see content creation as the only way they can make the money they want/need. I think many of them idolize streamers/content creators, and so they emulate them however they can. Part of that is dreaming to eventually have a 'chat' to say 'chat' to.

Makes me pretty sad, tbh.

Your second paragraph should've been your clue. The "chat" they're talking about is the chat attached to a YouTube or Twitch stream. It's influencer brainrot slang.

My real name starts with Chat and since it's a little difficult to pronounce if you don't know French I use it as a nickname.people always asking me weird questions on the Internet.

hope the cloud heard you