at best it makes you seem anxious and wishy-washy. at worst it feels terribly condescending. woooowww how gracious of you to not take it personally that i, a stranger to you, actually think labubus are kinda cute. it's so clearly a ploy to fend off the dumbest people in any given audience but i think on some level when you even acknowledge those audience members exist you make yourself accessible to them.

It's not new. Could be more people really are anxious. Could be wariness from the past 18+ years of "followers" taking the term far too seriously. Anyhow, I see a preface as a sign to point to. People who are going to take the difference of opinion as a challenge or an attempt at persuasion will go through it, but then there's the statement to point to if a group or attorney needs to come in and look.