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Crystal clear, thanks chat.

You can have an alternate third person pronoun I suppose in order to distinguish two third person individuals, but that doesn't mean there's a fourth person pronoun. The general definition is:

• first person - the speaker
• second person - the audience, whether present or not present
• third person - someone or something other than the audience

So things like "chat" and "breaking the fourth wall" are second person pronouns. There is no fourth person pronoun, because anything other than first and second is covered under third person.

It speaks to a person that isn't physically present and just an observer. "You" typically addresses someone directly, but can be used to break the 4th wall and talk to observers. "Chat" is exclusively for breaking the 4th wall.

Or "y'all"

Saying "chat" to address a group or room full of people isn't different at all from addressing them as "y'all"

Seems like the same thing to me. I think the person saying it's the first of its kind is wrong, but it would still be equally bizarre if people were addressing their "listeners" in normal conversation.

Or on a serial killer podcast, run by 35yo ladies, "murder muffins"

Ladies and Gentlemen

Friends

Guys

[To the] Saints in Ephesus

Gentlemen of the jury

Kids!

Class

Respected Members of the Lemeritus Comment Section Elle

[the] House

I don't think it's a pronoun at all. It's a collective noun, and a term of address.

"Ladies and Gentlemen" is also not a pronoun.

I can't tell if you're making a joke or not, but when I learned it "we" was first person plural. Likewise "y'all" was second person plural, etc.

Bird Person = friend of Rick Sanchez and generally good guy who doesn't appreciate dick moves

Fourth person

Doesn't exist. We/us is first person plural. Some languages have a little complexity here (e.g. Tagalog has "kami" which means "we without you" and "tayo" which means "we with you," but they're both still first person plurals).

• first person - speaker
• second person - audience excluding speaker
• third person - everything else

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Chat are idiots and can't be trusted

But the collective that excludes yourself. It’s like a “we without me”, which is also not the plural you.