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The trend of self-censoring words like 'dead' and 'kill' appears to be relatively new, motivated by TikTok and YouTube algorithms, but spilling over into the ge
by rjh29 10mo ago
The trend of self-censoring words like 'dead' and 'kill' appears to be relatively new, motivated by TikTok and YouTube algorithms, but spilling over into the general internet.
- martin-t 10mo agoCorrelation is not causation but I challenge anyone to come up with a different cause: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tiktok,unalive&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=tiktok,u... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=unalive&hl=en https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=unalive&...
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- rjh29 10mo agoI agree, although I was referring to asterisks like de*d and k*ll (or censoring with black bars, or using emojis) - euphemisms of course have always been part of language evolution.
- martin-t 10mo agoI chose unalive because i didn't know google trends allowed searching for asterisks. Appears it does. k*ll was apparently used even before tiktok but usage increased markedly around the same time as unalive appeared. Interestingly d*ad and r*pe don't follow this pattern. I am not sure it treats asterisks correctly, nor that google trends is the right tool to research this, given people searching for the word is only a poor indicator of its usage. Sidenote, I wish all websites supported markdown properly and not a custom weird subset they found convenient.
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- hdgvhicv 10mo agoThe sewer section of sites like the daily mail has been needlessly censoring words for well over a decade
- DonHopkins 10mo ago[dead]
- hdgvhicv 10mo agoIn the U.K. “Trump” is a synonym for “Fart”