Why is There Such a Prevalence of People With Lisps on Youtube?

It's because men are more and more patterning their way of speaking after women. Women don't exactly speak with lisps but their "s" sounds is unconsciously closer to a lisp than men's are because it sounds more feminine.

You see this with how many men now speak with vocal fry (which was once a stereotypical young woman thing to do) and how men these days start sentences with "I feel like..." instead of "I think..."

Also like @Troonos said, homosexuality. It's been so forcibly trendy to be gay/queer that men that want to be noticed/fit in to entertainment media have to adopt what's "fashionable", and that means talking like a faggot. Just listen to how your nephews or family friends' sons speak, it seems like more than half of all young boys talk with a faggoty lisp.
 
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I can't help but wonder what it is about lisps that correlates so strongly with homosexuality.

I remember watching a video where an AIDS patient is being interviewed, and he had a heavy lisp. The video never even hinted at his sexual orientation, but from the lisp (and the fact that he was infected with AIDS) I could easily tell he was a flaming faggot.
 
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Aero the Alcoholic Bat said:
I can't help but wonder what it is about lisps that correlates so strongly with homosexuality.
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Because "s" sounds softer/more feminine if it's pronounced closer to the back of the teeth. The thing that faggots overdo it and push their "s" sounds so hard into the back of their teeth that they wind up sticking it between their teeth to make a "th" sound hence a lisp. This is all done mostly unconsciously.
 
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I think being anxious tends to worsen lisps, so they probably get nervous during recording and it makes it much more pronounced than it would be otherwise. It seems to happen when people speak with their throats rather than relaxing and speaking with their diaphragms.

I'm more worried about why the fuck there are so many middling brits on YT. Literally the only interesting thing about them is their voice, which is why they're able to get away with being terrible in every other way.
 
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jethro said:
It's because men are more and more patterning their way of speaking after women. Women don't exactly speak with lisps but their "s" sounds is unconsciously closer to a lisp than men's are because it sounds more feminine.

You see this with how many men now speak with vocal fry (which was once a stereotypical young woman thing to do) and how men these days start sentences with "I feel like..." instead of "I think..."

Also like @Troonos said, homosexuality. It's been so forcibly trendy to be gay/queer that men that want to be noticed/fit in to entertainment media have to adopt what's "fashionable", and that means talking like a faggot. Just listen to how your nephews or family friends' sons speak, it seems like more than half of all young boys talk with a faggoty lisp.
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I've noticed this too, even caught myself doing it more than I'd like to admit. It's like the 2000s "valley girl" way of speaking became the norm, or at least parts of it did. Rate me autistic, but I've begun to actively avoid speaking that way irl by more carefully choosing words and expressions.
 
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Certified_Autist said:
I've noticed this too, even caught myself doing it more than I'd like to admit. It's like the 2000s "valley girl" way of speaking became the norm, or at least parts of it did. Rate me autistic, but I've begun to actively avoid speaking that way irl by more carefully choosing words and expressions.
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Idk if it's really modeling speech after women, it's just that women have always worried more about seeming socially palatable because they are individually less strong, and as the world has changed and focus has shifted more to the social collective due to the post WWII technological boom, you feel a much greater need to seem pleasant and inviting to other people. It's more of a sort of convergent evolution of social styles.

Regardless worrying about how people perceive you is womanly, and thus worrying about if you sound womanly or not is womanly.
 
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Certified_Autist said:
I've noticed this too, even caught myself doing it more than I'd like to admit. It's like the 2000s "valley girl" way of speaking became the norm, or at least parts of it did. Rate me autistic, but I've begun to actively avoid speaking that way irl by more carefully choosing words and expressions.
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I speak this way too, and no matter how hard I try to supress it or speak like a raging non-faggot, I just can't do it. Maybe it's because I drink a lot of milk. and I like to pretend all the milk I drink is my dad's semen, but I just can't change the way I speak. Even forcing myself to hang-out with my homicidally-homophobic Christian grandpa didn't help. My dad had to punch him into the ground, before he could get-out his shotgun to kill me for being a fag (which I'm not, btw. People just think I am, because I talk like a fag)
 
Uberpenguin said:
I think being anxious tends to worsen lisps, so they probably get nervous during recording and it makes it much more pronounced than it would be otherwise. It seems to happen when people speak with their throats rather than relaxing and speaking with their diaphragms.

I'm more worried about why the fuck there are so many middling brits on YT. Literally the only interesting thing about them is their voice, which is why they're able to get away with being terrible in every other way.
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I agree about the Brits. Why are they so influential in the wrestling community compared to Americans/Canadians where the vast majority of the promotions are.
 
Single parent households. When all you have is a mom, it's going to affect your developmental speech patterns.
 
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