Is it used to make headlines/posts more catchy? Does it have any logical explanation?

What Is The Origin Of That?

  • Jackie's Fridge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In print, you can use all-caps to produce a large, attention-grabbimg headline and reduce the leading (line space) without worrying about font ascenders or descenders interfering.

    Online, it’s just shouting.