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Un-alived? What is the point of inventing a word like that?
by beezlewax 3y ago
Un-alived? What is the point of inventing a word like that?
- hoppyhoppy2 3y agoApparently to get around TikTok ban/quarantine filters that don't like the word "suicide" https://www.thedailybeast.com/gen-z-wont-let-tiktok-stop-them-from-talking-about-suicide https://www.thedailybeast.com/gen-z-wont-let-tiktok-stop-the...
- Lammy 3y agoYou also get demonitized if you say it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U5NvNXuMuww?t=67 https://youtu.be/U5NvNXuMuww?t=67
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoBut they clearly didn't intend the word "suicide" because it wouldn't even fit in that sentence grammatically. If they are referring to the death of Elaine Herzberg, they may have intended it to mean "murdered" or "killed", but certainly not "suicide[d]". How could an SDC suicide a human being???
- hoppyhoppy2 3y agoWell I'm not a TikTok user, but it wouldn't surprise me if such a filter was equally uncomfortable with the words "murdered" or "killed" in videos. They probably really don't want death threats going viral.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoAudiovisual media seems increasingly sensitive to "naughty words". I've seen a lot of YouTubers who feel that it is necessary to censor words like "m*rder" or "r*pe" or "f*ck" -- exactly this way in their text descriptions, and they literally bleep the words if mentioned on video. I'm confused, because I thought that the scanners which detect TOS violations were becoming smarter, and it doesn't seem like an isolated swear word--or mention of sexual assault using plain English--would trigger an actual TOS violation, but it seems that these creators are wary of attracting attention by using the words uncensored.
- dragonwriter 3y agoOr murder/kill. The novel verb unalive is used for “kill” to evade filters regardless of whether the agent and patient of that action are the same or different individuals.