chat is this true?

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.
- Chat, can we get some protein pills for major tom
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.
- I still remember roflcopter being said aloud on a few occassions.
- I had a friend who said “el mayo” out loud.
  It was me.
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.
- There's no longer any realistic path to wealth for anyone who doesn't have nepotism on their side.
- Eh, my partner and I are old and we say it ironically.
- I hear plenty of zoomers say it but I also don’t interact with gen alpha so have no idea if it started with them
I used to be with it. Then they changed what "it" was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlTexEXxLQ
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.
- Username checks out, if suspiciously Japanese.
- You're ChatGPT! I knew it!
  / Cat, I farted
hope the cloud heard you
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.
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 don't remember using "chat", i remember using "all", but different rooms had different cultures.
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?"
Funny moments get shared between friends and spreads its reach -> Long form reaction content creates sharable moments -> Livestreams generate long form reaction content -> Livestreams have a chat that accompanies the streamer -> Streamer refers to chat during funny moments -> This is referenced as a meme -> Talking to chat spreads beyond the original context
... If you do it occasionally, when contextually appropriate... it is funny, a self aware reference to how they spend a lot of time on twitch streams, and are expressing disbelief.
When you do it all the time, reflexively, regardless of context... yeah, that may indicate that that just is your baseline norm for social interaction and you fundamentally cannot or do not distinguish between the contexts of online interaction and irl interaction.
There a whole lot of kids now who are just basically raises from near birth by screens. Parents with no free time or parents who don't give a shit just give the kid a distraction rectangle so they don't have to ... raise them.
lmao I'm gonna start to say goodbye like that XD
- I'm going to try it with my fiancée when she goes to work tomorrow and see if she gives me her ring.
  I'll report back my findings.
- I did that once with my nephews at the end of a video call and they laughed their ass off. My sister couldn't understand what was so funny about that.
Chat just became synonymous with readers/listeners in modern slang. I also went through my "old man yells at cloud" phase about it, but it's fine, I guess. I still get annoyed when people say the name of twitch emotes, though.
This is a gen Alpha thing, please do not associate us with those creatures.
"chat" is this Lemmy thread, in this example. it addresses the audience. it's the streamer equivalent of breaking the fourth wall.
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
Life in the social media age is one in which identity is developed performatively through profilicity. People from the earlier eras created themselves in the face of the Big Other, often as God, or as the crowd of society at large, their families, etc. Younglings of the new age have personified the Big Other as the digital crowd, imagined viewers of their life-as-livestream.

nope.

Not terribly surprising, it was understood that at a minimum 4chan was working with the FBI a decade ago. It's also entirely likely they weren't hacked and the leak is fake as well.

Wait. Fake and gay? Or just regular gay?
- Chat is it .gov or .gay
Wouldnt be surprised either. I watched the documentary deep web and the feds admit publicly they were running half of the dark web business to make their way to the top. Like there isnt anything better to do than subscribe and wait (there isnt corrupt officials who sold their souls to aipac, congress doing inside trading, billionaires screwing working class and buying governments, healthcare causing ten of thousands of deaths, ...)
- 4chan was a place you could see child porn on any given day and it was still active. That doesn't just happen without the government being ok with it.

Citation?

Non because they are lying. Based on what I saw the most common domain for Moderator Emails was Gmail.com.

it was long overdue. fuck this site. especially the /pol nazi scum.

I believe the .gov rumor isn't true, and it's mainly .edus. I haven't seen it, though. Waiting for someone to drop a pastebin/other leak, because all the reddit threads showing a source end up getting removed before I can read them.

I've seen the list on the party site. There were 3 .edu out of 219 emails total. 152 gmail, 17 hotmail/outlook, 18 protonmail, 2 4chan, and the rest were custom.
No .gov.
- I know there were plenty of ways to get a free .edu email circulating around the internet for a while too, because they could be used to get student discounts on subscriptions or software. 4chan users seem like the likely sort to try that loophole.

If they are US government employees, they wouldn't be arrogant enough to use official work email addresses.

Are you saying the US government isn't arrogant?
- Idk why they're bringing arrogance into it, but you'd get caught using official email for personal projects in like... a minute. And if it's official work, why would they risk exposing themselves instead of going through one of the million us gov email proxies?
Few .edu's in there tho lol.

Afaik some were using gov emails but that's not majority. Not a psyop, just dumbasses

no .gov, 3 edu. most were just gmail. some were using their own domain, which is a self-tell (like the .edu).

Can we talk about goated too? Adding the ed at the end just makes it sound stupid. If you wanna say a comment is the greatest of all time, you can just say goat comment and it doesn't sound so stupid. It's like saying 'excellented comment'. Like what?

Nah fam, goated is goated
“Goated” sounds better out loud. I think there’s also a verb/action component to it it - more like a “lauded comment.” To be “goated” is to be recognized as something that someone might consider the greatest comment of all time.
You can’t prescribe language, just go with the flow. The real fun of Gen Z and Gen Alpha slang is using it against them.
- I see what you're saying but personally I don't think it does; Michael Jordan is the GOAT. Not because some gen zer decided that he's the GOAT and should be goated. The gall to think any one person can judge a something as being the GOAT therefore can declare it 'goated' is just rediculous to me.

Guys, you know if payments for 4chan gold were leaked?

Anybody got the ip of the mods? I can't find the sj post (deleted?). I wanna know distribution of mods by country.

y'all it's not a lie, it's a meme

Meh... No matter how funny this is, it's a genuinely serious situation. People are genuinely confused. If you just spread misinformation, that's what it is: misinformation. A lie. IMO.
- it's in greentext format, clearly labeling it as a joke. if you take it seriously you are an idiot. jokes are not sources of factual information, so only an idiot treats them that way.

Can't wait for someone to do full doxx of them by searching emails in data breaches