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This shit drives me up the wall even more than "unalive"

You can't stop people saying slurs but an entire generation will subconsciously alter their entire vocabulary because they grew up on corporate platforms with very heavily moderated text chats and comment sections and they ended up internalising the filters matt-joker

Edit: I was not aware of the AAVE origins of "ahh" which pushes it more towards the territory of legit slang. Still, I stand by my general point about automated moderation influencing language being bad

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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

time inevitably marches on

I'm completely fine with my inevitable obsolescence, I just think it's fucked up that language is changing to be more friendly to advertisers

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just think it's fucked up that language is changing to be more friendly to advertisers

Isn't the intent to be less friendly to advertisers? A brand doesn't want to be associated with suicide. So people say "unalive themself" instead, which carries the same meaning as "suicide", thus making a mockery of the attempt at censorship

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A brand doesn't want to be associated with suicide.

And this is achieved by implementing lazy automated word filters because actual content moderation would be too much work. The end result is that people internalise the presence of these filters and continue to speak like they're present even when they're not on TikTok, etc. It's just incredibly fucking bleak desolate