This is just vibing. It’s not about the content, but a game to play with emotions, being able to take the emotion someone has sent you, play with it, and then send it back to the group.
There may be some status signaling going on here—but I think this is more about ingroup-outgroup than the high status-low status. It’s about can you be on the same emotional rhythm as the group.
My best guess (~70%?) is that it’s actually just an urge. Like, “Ooo, ooo, that reminds me of X!”. Which leads to the person proceeding to talk about X. Which leads to someone else being reminded of Y, and proceeding to talk about Y.
I don’t think there’s much dominance signaling or emotional “sending”. At least not intentionally and consciously.
I don’t disagree. There is indeed urge, and the ability to align that with group intent signals ingroup status. Similar to how many urges have status signalling benefits, I’d argue this urge has ingroup signalling benefits. You can of course learn to vibe consciously but for most normies it’s largely subconscious.
I didn’t downvote, but your comment seems to overlook that status dynamics almost always happen subconsciously / feel like urges.
I’m not sure there’s actually a status dynamic there, but if there is one, your first paragraph is actually consistent with that (which is the opposite of what your second paragraph suggests)
This is just vibing. It’s not about the content, but a game to play with emotions, being able to take the emotion someone has sent you, play with it, and then send it back to the group.
There may be some status signaling going on here—but I think this is more about ingroup-outgroup than the high status-low status. It’s about can you be on the same emotional rhythm as the group.
My best guess (~70%?) is that it’s actually just an urge. Like, “Ooo, ooo, that reminds me of X!”. Which leads to the person proceeding to talk about X. Which leads to someone else being reminded of Y, and proceeding to talk about Y.
I don’t think there’s much dominance signaling or emotional “sending”. At least not intentionally and consciously.
I don’t disagree. There is indeed urge, and the ability to align that with group intent signals ingroup status. Similar to how many urges have status signalling benefits, I’d argue this urge has ingroup signalling benefits. You can of course learn to vibe consciously but for most normies it’s largely subconscious.
I’m curious about the downvotes here. Is this an implausible hypothesis?
I didn’t downvote, but your comment seems to overlook that status dynamics almost always happen subconsciously / feel like urges.
I’m not sure there’s actually a status dynamic there, but if there is one, your first paragraph is actually consistent with that (which is the opposite of what your second paragraph suggests)
No, it makes sense to me. I have no idea why you were downvoted