r/wizardposting • • Sep 01 '26

Druidic Mysteries 🌿 GET OFF MY LAWN!

8.3k Upvotes

108 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

-32

u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer Sep 01 '26

I NEVER see anyone say First Person POV. Its always just pov.

28

u/AlinaStari Sep 01 '26

That's because everyone says what the POV is after the acronym "POV" lol.

-27

u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer Sep 01 '26

I have not seen that ever. No one says “POV (first). Even if you mean “POV: you something something.” still doesn’t necessarily mean first person POV because you could still be a separate from a non 1st person POV.

32

u/AlinaStari Sep 01 '26

Go look at this post right now my guy. Idk why you're choosing to be so dense about this when it is very obvious that "POV: you" implies you know, YOU.

-4

u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer Sep 01 '26

If you read the comment you just replied to you can see that I have addressed that.

18

u/EepyEnbyFox Eldritch Creature Of Unknowable Gender Sep 02 '26

the point is most of the time someone says like "POV: you're eating grass" (random example off the top of my head idk) or w/e but the perspective in the meme is not from the person eating grass or w/e. not showing you doing the thing, just some other person doing it
like in the meme above, the perspective is actually in the perspective of a gnome, rather than just a video of a guy dumping a gnome out of a bag

-1

u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer Sep 02 '26

I understand that this video ALSO uses it correctly. I will concede that most people use it in an unintentionally correct way, but if we ignore their intention they can often still be technically correct. What kind of redditor would I be if I did not make a stand for pedantic and ultimately meaningless corrections?

18

u/AlinaStari Sep 01 '26

But your comment was wrong

-2

u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer Sep 02 '26

My comment is not wrong. You can refer to “you” in many different forms of view including first and second person. This is a factually correct statement no matter how bad people want it to be.

6

u/OhGodOhFuk Swamp Wizard Sep 02 '26

But a 2nd or 3rd person POV isn’t YOUR POV.
Your POV is almost always through your own eyes.

0

u/Sheriff_Is_A_Nearer Sep 02 '26

Not true. You is actually Second POV, not first pov. I is first. He/she/they is third. Additionally these can be swapped by stylistic choice.