the.com/screams
What the internet does instead of laughing, crying, or admitting it has feelings.
means A way of expressing overwhelming emotion online — usually delight, horror, or both — without making any actual sound.
from From the primal vocal shriek, hijacked by social media circa the 2010s as text-shorthand for an emotional overload too big for normal words.
Silent volumeTyped loudest by people sitting perfectly still.
Emotion-agnosticSignals joy and dread with equal sincerity.
Plural by natureSingular scream feels literal; the s makes it figurative.