Tone Tag Discourse - Tumblr Posts

Tone tag discourse is kind of a pain, because I feel that a lot of the times it's always framed as an autistic vs allistic issue, but that really strips the nuance down. I for example find tone tags to be genuinely more confusing than had you used better word choice in the first place. Tone tags also require an entire understanding of their applications that isn't readily apparent due to being abbreviations, and there are several that aren't useful (half-joking, lyrics, et cetera). The only one I have ever used and even then am not consistent on is 'reference' and this is largely because I was generally pressured into using it due to the frequency of my references being not understood, and even with clarification that it was a reference people would still be upset with me.

I feel tone tags likely exist specifically because of the nature of Twitter, where your character count is heavily limited and thus an abbreviation is needed, but otherwise why wouldn't it be a better solution to either reword your sentence so it's more accurate in your communication or to just add the entire intended tone at the end? Isn't something like 'I enjoy this (genuine)' easier to parse than '/gen'? Isn't the former also easier on screen readers, therefore being a far more accessible modification than the slash with an abbreviation? I don't know, maybe I'm thinking too hard on this, but it's frustrating to me when no one can seem to actually grapple with these ideas and when I bring them up I'm called ableist.