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Late GenZ and GenA censorship is to substitute the word entirely -- porn is "corn", dead is "unalive", ass becomes "ahh", sex worker is "accountant". Asteriski
by roncesvalles 1y ago
Late GenZ and GenA censorship is to substitute the word entirely -- porn is "corn", dead is "unalive", ass becomes "ahh", sex worker is "accountant".
Asterisking is old-fashioned.
- smcin 1y agoPunctuation, numbers-for-letters (L337) and strategic misspellings are also your friend.
- tbrownaw 1y ago> sex worker is "accountant" The others are understandable enough, but what's up with this one?
- dragonwriter 1y agoIts substituting a job you can't talk about without risking repercussions on some platforms with one you can. I don't think its a lot deeper than that, and that the substitution is essentially arbitrary (though I do think it was chosen because it has an extreme opposite social valence, with accountant being among the jobs with the most laced-up, boring, vanilla perception available.)
- dragonwriter 1y agoThose are, as I undersand, mostly TikTok-isms (designed around actual and perceived TikTok censorship) more than generational patterns that have escaped (but somewhat attenuated) to other contexts ("unalive" is particularly common in other social media, the rest not so much.)