Juancarlos Vargas 10/12/2022 jcvargas2@cps.edu Science Fiction Becomes Science Fact Scholarship "GG guys We'll get them next game", "U suck get good kid". These are common types of comments one may see on an online gaming forum. When it comes to the added anonymity in gaming forums, users will tend to abandon social norms of civil discourse and actions and instead act differently because there are no real names or faces. A user may cut differently in a malicious way because of the lack of accountability an anonymous account can provide. The effect of gaming forums have started to breach into real-life social interactions by having certain phrases being introduced into young peoples vocabulary. Buzz words like "poggers" to denote a positive exclamation have become commonplace in social interactions between younger people I can relate to this phenomenon because I remember learning about it in AP psychology. It was during Ap psychology that my interest in that scientific field grew and inspired me to pursue a degree in that. I have friends who often joke and engage in playful banter with each other, it feels like the added sharpness of comments from online forums has made them more resilient in a way when it comes to words effecting their mood.