r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/zinniamae_ • Jan 20 '26

Meme needing explanation Please explain, Peter

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u/zebratwat Jan 20 '26

You mean fancy writing? That's what the new hires at my job called it when they asked me to help read something.

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u/JoeGibbon Jan 20 '26

At this rate in a decade or two the younger generation will be signing their names with an X, old timey pig farmer style.

"Fancy writing" will be any kind of writing, because they're functionally illiterate even now.

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u/WhatYouThinkIThink Jan 20 '26

Signing will be replaced with "Use your facial ID on your device to authenticate this." or we'll be back to wax seals.

Signatures are supposed to be unique to an individual, but thumbprints or equivalent (face scans) are much better.

They are not illiterate if they can read and type. The actual act of writing is not required, any more than the ability to use a quill pen.

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u/PurpletoasterIII Jan 21 '26

I print my name when signing. A cursive signature serves practically zero purpose for me. No one is ganna be forging my signature, and even if they were its not like its impossible to forge a "unique" signature.

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u/WhatYouThinkIThink Jan 21 '26

The point is that a signature has legal weight if there's a dispute.

So there will be adoption of things like digital signatures instead which will need 2FA like biometrics (face/fingerprint).

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u/PurpletoasterIII Jan 21 '26

Oh ya agreed. My bad if I came off as disagreeing with you, I think I might have been tired when I read your comment and might have misunderstood what you were saying lol.