Something dystopian about being trapped in a system that runs on mass death but expects you to talk about death like you're a character in a children's cartoon

Tiktok isn't an app for kids, i don't want to be ageist - it's for all ages and everyone can have fun on there. But the way tiktoker's talk on tiktok and other platforms with their cutesy little euphemisms for violence and sex does make me think every time "Ah, they're used to the kiddie app", because it's making grown adults be afraid to talk about adult topics.

This is just the fault of censorship and not the app or the users, but it is literally sanitized kiddie language and feels very out of place and hard to take seriously on websites that don't have that censorship.

Apparently kids have been saying “unalive” in way more normal contexts too, not just places where you’re trying to avoid bot censors. Like, using it in essays because they think it’s a more formal way of saying it kill, like “dead” vs “deceased”

(There’s certainly a chance this is made up and I’m sounding like the weird chuds who think there are litterboxes in classrooms and if that’s the case whoops)

I genuinely wish there was a way to pressure advertisers to knock that shit off. God I hate that word so much. Please just let people say kill I don’t want to hear unalive anymore it sounds so stupid.

I learned "sewer slide" is a thing recently

Bringing back "he got sent to another dimension" from the Dragon Ball Z Ocean Dub.

You trying to tell me all the hot singles in my area aren't actually interested in making a corn video with me?

algospeak can be useful doe. see 🍉

Like the good old "an hero" from before zoomers did their first fortnite dance.

It shows just how influential social media is in shaping culture outside of the ordinary internet niches.

Go commit die

I'm still partial to the classic "minecrafted".

yes it is the hallmark of a healthy society

If I hear "unalive" as a verb one more time

So glad I am not the only one that finds that stuff unseemingly.

The WWE used their euphemism when John Cena said "we have caught and compromised, to a parmenent end, Osama Bin Laden."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMlFYl6u1H4

So it aint just the zoomers! WWE wanted to get everyone hyped about an assassination, but even they were like "ooo, that is kinda gruesome."

In bad country, people have to alter their speech to appease those with power

I unironically like the term "unalive". I use it when I wanna be casual and whimsical in my misery. My language is a tad different when I'm holed up in my job's bathroom looking up that ol' hotline.

unalive is the new frick/dang/heck