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⌈ Secret Post #5421 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - This is a great comment and explains a lot, thank you!

I guess I feel like Chandler specifically manages to tread that line where his comments don't feel mean and superior and "above it all" to me, they just feel like his way of engaging with situations. If anything I feel like the character is fairly self-deprecating, and is pretty open and self-aware about the fact that he is neurotic and insecure, so to me his sarcasm and snark comes off as toothless 98% of the time because it doesn't seem like it's coming from a place of him thinking he's better than other people, or stepping on people to make himself taller. If anything, I guess within the context of the Friends group, his snarkiness actually reads as a kind of indirect affection to me most of the time (though I guess if we saw him interact with strangers more often then his snarkiness would bother me more, because I do think his remarks would probably seem insensitive when levelled at people he had no intimacy with).

But I see what you mean about how this sort of snarky wit tends to manifest IRL. In fiction there are script writers to make sure the jokes are just the right kind of snarky to not feel like actual barbs, and as a viewer I subconsciously pick up on the fact that care was taken to make the character's comments stingless and I attribute that effort to the character -- that they take care to modulate their snark so it's only as harsh as the people around them are okay with. Whereas in reality when people are snarky it's a lot more likely to feel like their snark is barbed and insensitive, and what's more, in reality that is probably at least partially their intent.

Also, yikes at people comparing themselves to BBC Sherlock in real life. I would definitely consider that a friendship red flag.