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Interestingly, It's becoming much more common for young people to use obscured phrases for advertiser-unfriendly but non-profane terms. For example, using un-al
by idiotsecant 4y ago
Interestingly, It's becoming much more common for young people to use obscured phrases for advertiser-unfriendly but non-profane terms. For example, using un-aliving instead of commit suicide. It's not an ironic usage, but an actual usage to avoid getting agorithim'd on social media websites, but it leaks out into domains where advertiser unfriendliness isn't actually a problem (like HN for example) and gets used in the same way. It's a real time example of the intersection of marketing and technology shaping language and it's kind of fascinating.
- sbierwagen 4y agoI have personally heard "unalived" spoken aloud by teenagers on multiple occasions. One of the many positive effects tiktok has had on the United States.
- happycube 4y agoReminds me of a now-old Doctor Who story (Paradise Towers) where the girl k^Hgangs used "unalive" the same way (although usually they were murder victims)
- irthomasthomas 4y agoWhy would young people care if their tweet/tik is advertiser friendly? It seems like it would be the platforms, not the users, that encourage this behaviour?
- Bakary 4y agoThey care because your content gets scrubbed without warning by the algorithm, and there is no way to appeal. The problem is particularly acute on YouTube.
- fknorangesite 4y ago> The problem is particularly acute on YouTube. And tiktok.
- SllX 4y agoAnd Twitch which is also trigger happy with the TOS violations.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoSo the users don't care, but are forced to care by their platforms arbitrary rules?
- Bakary 4y agoIf it were actual rules, it would be a lot simpler even if it were arbitrary. But usually it's AI blackbox decisions with very few humans you can ever talk to afterwards, even if the person in question makes a living from their account. From what I gathered on HN, there are known but undocumented cases of FAANG employees extracting sexual or other favors for account unlocks or arbitrarily seizing accounts with noteworthy usernames.
- lupire 4y agoKids invented slang since long before Internet.