my texting headcanon for the smh gang, presented without explanations:
bitty uses proper grammar 90% of the time, and proper punctuation+capitalization 100% of the time. he does use basic internet slang (omg, lol, btw), but he capitzalizes that, too. boy takes the quality of his tweeting very seriously. he's also a huge fan of emojis and has a kamoji keyboard on his phone.
jack... could not care less for capitalizing. everything is lowercase. his perspective on texting is that it should take as little time as possible. he'd probably use proper grammar if he ever wrote more than five words in a row. he is a big fan of the ':-)' smiley, however.
holster is a reddit memer meets tumblr white girl. he texts like there's still a character limit to texts ("y u do this 2 me bro"), uses acronyms no one but ransom can translate (holster: "we're just a bogsat" dex: "???" rans: "bunch of guys sitting around talking"), and responds to things with 'KFVHH:+ASKJ!!'. he's never heard of a comma in his life.
ransom keeps everything in lowercase because he thinks it, like, looks better. he turned off autocorrect so his i's and first word in sentences won't be accidentally uppercase. he's an expert at using gifs to convey a message, and is one of those people who breaks every text into five different messages (jack's phone keeps buzzing and he wants to kill him).
shitty abuses capitals, and it always reads like he's screaming things that shouldn't be screamed. he can also text full sentences in emojis sometimes and expects to be understood (shitty: "🎀📝🏃➡️🏠🥧" bitty: "????" lardo: "tied up homework, on my way to the haus, leave me some pie").
lardo is the queen of using embarrassing pictures of the boys as stickers. she refuses to share, and also refuses to tell them how she got some of the pictures (lardo: "it's 2am" lardo: [sticker of nursey sleeping open-mouthed in his dorms, titled 'go the fuck to sleep'] nursey: "how"). she doesn't use exclamation points or question marks, at all. only full stops.
chowder on the other hand tends to use too many exclamation points and not enough full stops. he has the chronic problem of leaving the group chat on read without replying because he laughs at the texts and then forgets to answer, but he actually checks his phone the most other than bitty, and so is always the first to know things.
dex always has autocorrect on because he hates having to go back and correct typos, which makes his sentences the opposite of ransom's (i's and first letters always capitzalized). it also means he has autocorrect incidents a lot, and gets chirped for it, a lot. he's a firm opposer of emojis and cannot be convinced otherwise.
nursey is the only one who learned the bolding/italicizing system on whatsapp, and he uses it often (dex can't figure it out and it drives him insane). he also never checks if he's texting the right person, so the group chat gets an unprecedented amount of embarrassing texts that aren't meant for them. it also works the other way around, which makes several of his classmates even more wary of smh.
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