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I'm a decently young person who spends a lot of time on the internet and I don't recognize virtually any of these terms. I would certainly raise an eyebrow if s

I'm a decently young person who spends a lot of time on the internet and I don't recognize virtually any of these terms. I would certainly raise an eyebrow if someone used any of these in conversation with me. Is this actually affecting how any people outside the tiny demographic of "some popular content creators on some social media networks" speak? People finding creative ways to get around censorship is nothing new, people talked like this to get around chat filters all the time in multiplayer games I played as a kid. I feel like people only think it's interesting now because mystical "algorithms" speak to the imagination

sippeangelo 5y ago
It's mostly visible on TikTok, which has very heavy censoring with voice matching, just like YouTube. At least on YouTube you only need to self censor of you want to play nice with advertisement money, but TikTok will heavily black-hole your videos of you mention anything "controversial", like suicide, or COVID or anything sexuality related. Not sure if this is due to Chinese taboo culture bleeding over to the western counterpart, or if it's just advertising money just like YouTube, but the effect on TikTok is much harsher since you don't just risk demonetization, but even your video being visible at all to your close peers.