What’s with the trend of people putting a lot of periods in the middle of their sentences?

This is going to sound super nitpicky, but one of my biggest pet peeves over the last couple years is people putting a bunch of unnecessary periods in between their sentences. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, here’s an example

“Myles Brennan looked really good before the injury...... with that said Max Johnson showed a ton of leadership..... will be an interesting spring practice to say the least......”

Why go through the extra work of putting all of those periods? Why not just use a comma? This is something I see A LOT on the OT and the Tiger rant. But I see it on Facebook and Trumps Twitter a lot as well. It’s usually the uneducated crowd that does this, and it seems like more people are doing it every day.

I’ve asked a few people on this board why they do it, and I’ve received some vague answers like “I like to be understood” but it does literally nothing to make their posts more readable, and actually when read out loud makes it sound like the poster has asthma.

I know it’s a strange thing to get upset about. But the fact that SO many people do it is mind boggling.