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Pro-Palestinian creators use secret spellings, words to evade social algorithms

h2odragon 3y ago
perhaps, but th3y n0t l33t l1k3 w3 w4z
earthboundkid 3y ago
The Chinese have been doing this for decades. They'll do the equivalent of Cockney rhyming slang with Chinese characters so it will be like "fuck your mother" can be written like "grass mud horse" which can be interpreted as an Alpaca and then it gets weirder from there… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh, so you can talk about bears, honey, etc. The thing with the COVID riots that was shocking was that people were so fed up with the lockdowns that they just straight up said so without using any indecipherable codes.
- janisz 3y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang
helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/ZDSPf https://archive.ph/ZDSPf
jeroenhd 3y ago
This has been a thing even among generic memes for a while now. You can't say kill or suicide on Tiktok, so you say "unalive". What's more worrying is that the Tiktok speak is leaking into normal conversations. The platform has such influence that its censorship is shaping language for an entire generation. Shitty English like "to unalive someone" isn't particularly disturbing, but it shows the power the platform has. They could easily take out the doublespeak, they know damn well what's going on, they just tolerate these "workarounds". Youtube and other social media also had their own censorship rules, but they were usually centered around swear words and blatant hate speech. Tiktok is taking this to a whole new level and nobody seems to care.
- GloomyBoots 3y ago
  > Shitty English like "to unalive someone" isn't particularly disturbing I find it disturbing that certain words become verboten, so people swap them out with sarcastically infantile euphemisms, then that language becomes increasingly normalized outside of those platforms. I was looking up a local court case and found some true crime video covering it using this language. Hearing a detailed, lurid account of a horrific crime presented in a professional tone but peppered with infantile euphemisms was extremely unsettling. We’ve always had this to some extent, with reporters using language like “he called them the n-word” but it just keeps getting ramped up. I preferred when they would just say that the details were too sensitive to discuss or something similar.
tamarlikesdata 3y ago
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perhaps, but th3y n0t l33t l1k3 w3 w4z

The Chinese have been doing this for decades. They'll do the equivalent of Cockney rhyming slang with Chinese characters so it will be like "fuck your mother" can be written like "grass mud horse" which can be interpreted as an Alpaca and then it gets weirder from there… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_Mud_Horse Xi Jinping looks like Winnie the Pooh, so you can talk about bears, honey, etc. The thing with the COVID riots that was shocking was that people were so fed up with the lockdowns that they just straight up said so without using any indecipherable codes.

janisz 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koalang

helsinkiandrew 3y ago

https://archive.ph/ZDSPf https://archive.ph/ZDSPf

jeroenhd 3y ago

This has been a thing even among generic memes for a while now. You can't say kill or suicide on Tiktok, so you say "unalive". What's more worrying is that the Tiktok speak is leaking into normal conversations. The platform has such influence that its censorship is shaping language for an entire generation. Shitty English like "to unalive someone" isn't particularly disturbing, but it shows the power the platform has. They could easily take out the doublespeak, they know damn well what's going on, they just tolerate these "workarounds". Youtube and other social media also had their own censorship rules, but they were usually centered around swear words and blatant hate speech. Tiktok is taking this to a whole new level and nobody seems to care.

GloomyBoots 3y ago
> Shitty English like "to unalive someone" isn't particularly disturbing I find it disturbing that certain words become verboten, so people swap them out with sarcastically infantile euphemisms, then that language becomes increasingly normalized outside of those platforms. I was looking up a local court case and found some true crime video covering it using this language. Hearing a detailed, lurid account of a horrific crime presented in a professional tone but peppered with infantile euphemisms was extremely unsettling. We’ve always had this to some extent, with reporters using language like “he called them the n-word” but it just keeps getting ramped up. I preferred when they would just say that the details were too sensitive to discuss or something similar.

tamarlikesdata 3y ago

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