If you’re an adult, then talk like one.

    by imallelite

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    1. thatonedude921 on

      Sometimes I use them because I think they are funny but I won’t censor myself when I’m being serious

    2. ChaoticTerpenes on

      If I was to guess it’s to bypass the AI filters for flagging and/or banning people.

    3. I was banned for 3 days because I said black bears can m(u)rder you

      I aint taking risks anymore, in Minecraft

    4. thecrazedsidee on

      i blame tik tok. so many people are being afraid of being shadow banned or whatever that they use bs terms like that.

    5. Mammon-The-Jester on

      I agree on “unhoused”. And honestly, in my personal experience: I think “grape” or “🍇” undermines it—trying to hide the seriousness of it. And I only use it because I know people will flip, and never believe that.
      However, “Ahh” is great for shitposting and you will never convince me otherwise.

    6. I agree with you but just to play devil’s advocate, most of the time people use these terms to bypass systems that will automatically remove posts with certain key words in it.

      But to the people that say it just to say it, grow up

    7. What do you expect when platforms have all these ridiculous rules for what you can and can’t say

    8. Unhoused isn’t necessarily the same tiktok speak as the rest of it. It’s just a different word for homeless. Not that homeless is necessarily a bad word, some people just prefer to say unhoused as it doesn’t have the negative conotation homeless has. But yeah the rest of it sucks. People afraid of getting shadow banned by for saying killed, dead, or cussing. More like it’s something the algorithem heavily disincentivizes and so people find a way around it. Anyone that says it irl is a clown tho.

    9. The whole point of words like “suicide” and “murder” is to convey the act as well as the *seriousness.*

      Like, I’ve suffered from suicidal thoughts and depression. And my dad tried twice to kill himself. To call his acts “an attempt to unalive himself” is, and this may be a hot take, downplaying the severity of his suicide attempts.

    10. PuertoricanDude88 on

      A lot of them were made to censor words that people couldn’t put in their video. Unfortunately, it stick around that now it is part of people’s vocabulary.

    11. Ok_Difference345 on

      People talk like this when they’re influencers because if they say the actual words, they’re considered not useful to advertisers and the video gets demonetized so they use ridiculous terms so they can make videos but still get paid

    12. I think “unhoused” is sort of the odd one out here. The rest of those terms stem from stuff like avoiding tik tok bans. The term “unhoused,” comes from trying to find a more “humanizing” term for the homeless (whether you like the term or not I think is irrelevant to my point).

    13. I think ahh is fine, at least as a workaround, for things that don’t let you cuss or you’re unsure. Kind of the same as the rest, but they’re just alternative wording that’s pretty obvious.

    14. Unhoused isn’t a Gen Z or below term. They use this verbiage in DC in general regardless of age, in my experience

      Unalive stemmed from social media censorship, no? Wouldn’t surprise me if people were using that outside of this

    15. What happens when these become so common in place of the actual words that they themselves become censored…

    16. It all originates from trying to get around auto censorship. Personally, I feel like any attempt to circumvent censorship on platforms which censor these words should be punished much more harshly than simply using the word correctly.

    17. TXGunslinger419 on

      add calling a monster who likes children a pdf file to the list. let’s not make cutesy names for the worst of society

    18. Ill_Pollution5633 on

      if someone unironically uses “ahh” instead of “ass” then i’ve go no words for them, but if someone wrote a joke saying “ass video” instead of “ahh video” for example, i don’t think i’d find it as funny

    19. Genuinely didn’t get what “Forever Sleep” meant initally with how dumb it sounded until i saw “Unalive”

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