It’s not a witticism. Users of a lot of modern mass media platforms (TikTok is the one that comes to mind) need to use increasingly euphemistic language to speak about anything. Unalive a specific, famous one, you must have seen it before, even in deeply serious situations. Imagine someone sobbing while retelling a deeply personal experience only to say “I wanted to unalive myself 🥺” straight-faced between tears. That’s heartbreaking, disgusting stuff.
Someone sent me cool woodworking video from TikTok a few months ago and the carpenter man kept talking about dogs. I bought a dog of dogs here, I cut off a dog, make sure to check how many dogs your wood is. What the fuck? Checking the comments, they were all like “LMAO dog 💀💀💀💀💀💀” with zero explanation.
What are dogs? Dogs means feet now apparently. Fuck me if I know. If you say “feet” on TikTok, you get flagged as a fetish channel, so people say “dogs”. Why dogs? I don’t care. If you’re going to use stupid imperial measurements at least call them by a name I recognize.
“Corn” for porn is kind of funny because corn is a very unsexy word (and concept).
There is a lot of euphemistic algorithm evasion on TikTok, and this is not a phenomenon I’d want to see become endemic on the Fediverse. It’s also a thing on Instagram. And now it’s diffusing to unrelated places.
I’m usually not this petty on here but it really pisses me off. This is also becoming a problem on Tumblr apparently, as I mentioned, which is a platform with a rigorous tagging system which allows users to block what they won’t have to see, which has made it possible to write properly without self-censorship. Apparently new, younger users, coming from places like TikTok, will just write “CW:🍇🍇” in their post instead of using the word rape, for example. So people who would previously be safe, by filtering out “rape”, are now finding shit they don’t want to see in their feeds. People should have a place where they can write about their experiences, no matter how harrowing, but this cheapens it and makes it harder to properly organize.
The internet is for communication. Its usefulness as a means of effective communication is under attack from all sides. Let’s not just let that happen, yeah
You understood the meaning, that’s what communication is for. Let people use their prefered words, no need to let your blood presure rise because of people’s preferences. Use what ever you want to use and let others live rant-free.
It’s not a witticism. Users of a lot of modern mass media platforms (TikTok is the one that comes to mind) need to use increasingly euphemistic language to speak about anything. Unalive a specific, famous one, you must have seen it before, even in deeply serious situations. Imagine someone sobbing while retelling a deeply personal experience only to say “I wanted to unalive myself 🥺” straight-faced between tears. That’s heartbreaking, disgusting stuff.
Someone sent me cool woodworking video from TikTok a few months ago and the carpenter man kept talking about dogs. I bought a dog of dogs here, I cut off a dog, make sure to check how many dogs your wood is. What the fuck? Checking the comments, they were all like “LMAO dog 💀💀💀💀💀💀” with zero explanation.
What are dogs? Dogs means feet now apparently. Fuck me if I know. If you say “feet” on TikTok, you get flagged as a fetish channel, so people say “dogs”. Why dogs? I don’t care. If you’re going to use stupid imperial measurements at least call them by a name I recognize.
“Corn” for porn is kind of funny because corn is a very unsexy word (and concept).
There is a lot of euphemistic algorithm evasion on TikTok, and this is not a phenomenon I’d want to see become endemic on the Fediverse. It’s also a thing on Instagram. And now it’s diffusing to unrelated places.
I’m usually not this petty on here but it really pisses me off. This is also becoming a problem on Tumblr apparently, as I mentioned, which is a platform with a rigorous tagging system which allows users to block what they won’t have to see, which has made it possible to write properly without self-censorship. Apparently new, younger users, coming from places like TikTok, will just write “CW:🍇🍇” in their post instead of using the word rape, for example. So people who would previously be safe, by filtering out “rape”, are now finding shit they don’t want to see in their feeds. People should have a place where they can write about their experiences, no matter how harrowing, but this cheapens it and makes it harder to properly organize.
The internet is for communication. Its usefulness as a means of effective communication is under attack from all sides. Let’s not just let that happen, yeah
You understood the meaning, that’s what communication is for. Let people use their prefered words, no need to let your blood presure rise because of people’s preferences. Use what ever you want to use and let others live rant-free.
Old man, I’ll get off your lawn. Just let go of my arm first.