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Learning that "goofy ahh" is a lameass self-censorship of goofy-ass is so fucking disappointing. I just learned this a couple days ago, I didn't know what it meant but I figured it had some different meaning. Instead it's goddamn self-censorship just like "unalive".

The other side to this is that ahh for ass is an eye dialect for certain AAVE lects (e.g. in this version of "Crank That" by Soulja Boy, "I'm jockin' on yo b#### ahh")

Incidentally, I saw a short by Unsightly Opinions today where she was talking about cutting food as a blind person, but she couldn't say either "cut" or "knife", and thus circumlocuted them as "make food smaller" and "implement". I'm reminded of Oceanian name taboos, except instead being a product of worshiping ancestors it's a product of worshiping The Algorithm.

I thought it was appropriated AAVE? Most of the "youth" language is.

It really grates me how corporate censorship is making people talk some weird sort of baby language. You can't talk about how Israel is following in the footsteps of the Nazis led by Adolf Hitler in killing the innocent, you have to say that the blue state is following in the footsteps of the the yatzees led by Moustache Man in unaliving the innocent which kind of removes the gravity of the message. It is ridiculous.

This is different from slang, AAVE and other kinds of -lect. Those are cool and awesome. If people would say it if the algorithm wasn't listening in on them it is fine.

I don't even know how much of this self-censorship is really substantiated. On one hand you have creators who seems to be afraid that bad things will happen if they talk about cutting up a carrot, on the other hand you have creators who say shit and fuck and c*nt in every sentence and they're doing fine.

Yeah I've noticed this too, the universal acceptance for the most asinine form of self-censorship is utterly baffling considering the pseudo-libertarian meta of internet youth culture since the internet went public thirty years ago

I watched a youtube video recently about the GTA games and the dude was self censoring so hard. Wouldn't say things like "suicide" or "killing yourself" in reference to jumping off a building in the game. Wouldn't say words like "sex", "boobs" and "prostitute" when talking about the strip clubs and street hookers.

It's fucking stupid

Boomer ahh post

skibidi

cuh crashing out over ahh

this is the only thing I will be an old man about. I don’t give a shit about “aura” in all honesty but “ahh” “pmo” and “sbyau” genuinely pisses me off

Also, I’ve seen “keys” used in lieu of kys. what the actual fuck man

Was this self-censorship? I thought it was just coopting AAVE again.

broke: asking kids to post less annoyingly

woke: putting up with how kids post because time inevitably marches on

toke: using the internet less

while we’re here, I wanna air my personal grievance with the use of “based” in internet culture. That term is reserved for our lord and savior, Lil B and I’m fairly certain it originated as a term for crackhead (i.e “basehead”). Possibly coming from the term “free basing” meaning to take drugs orally with no casing.

I have no sources so prove me wrong lol

🎶"I'm like a one eyed cat peepin in a seafood store"🎤

Nah, I love any n all subversion of authority. Tho it might alter the language it's not the kids fault it's the censors, and if the fallout is just me hittin up urban dictionary now and again ill do it with a gotdamn smile on my wrinkled-ahh face. Get em kids!

Stupid ahh post

ahh is literally its own expression ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This is no different from saying crap, dang, frick, shoot, etc and complaining about it is just what old people have done throughout history

we must wield prescriptivism against the prescriptions of the corporate censors