One-Lining

One-Lining or the ones who do it "One-Liners" is a term brought into popularity into ChatGum by both Literate and Semi-Literate role-players. It refers to illiterate role-play.

Summary
One-Lining is the concept of which a role-player(considered unskilled) proceeds to write a role-play action only including one script, sentence or verse. This may also include role-playing that just includes one word in a script, such as *runs* or *sits* Which are often looked down upon by the more skilled users who deem it unpopular and illiterate. Stereotypes often apply this behavior to children or less intelligent individuals.

History
One-Lining was originally the major form of role-playing in the ChatGum role-playing chat, at it's peak around May of 2016. Later that year more literate users had joined the app and became upset due to the large amount of one-liners which started the term on the app and the hatred towards them with alot of propaganda against them in hopes to cause them to leave the app.

There was a few occasions where people tried to revive the old one-line tradition as they deemed it more polite and fair to all people, but these never caught on.

By late 2017, the amount of one-liners was less than 1/5th and by 2020 the majority of role-players are no longer one-liners but rather Semi-Literate in majority.