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Algospeak (using coded expressions to avoid automated content moderation) (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Examples edit According to The New York Times:

  • (to) unalive, unalived – to kill; killed, dead
  • accountant– sex worker
  • cornucopia – homophobia
  • le dollar bean – lesbian, as derived from the written form Le$bian
  • leg booty – the LGBTQ+ community
  • nip nops – nipples
  • panini, panoramic – a pandemic, especially the COVID-19 pandemic
  • seggs – sex

Other examples:

  • acoustic – autistic
  • blink in lio – link in bio
  • camping – abortion
  • cheese pizza – child pornography
  • fork – fuck
  • grape – rape
  • Keep Yourself Safe – whose initials stand > * for 'kill yourself'
  • music festival – protest
  • opposite of love – hatred
  • ouid – weed
  • Panda Express – pandemic
  • PDF file, PDF – pedophile
  • pew pew – firearm
  • regarded – retarded
  • sewer slide – suicide
  • shmex – sex
  • tism – autism spectrum conditions
  • yt – White people, though yt is also a common abbreviation for YouTube

Have seen most of these, but that doesn't make it any better. The times we're living in are just swell, aren't they?

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Never seen yt before. That would be confusing af since both are noun

[–] maniel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

i've also noticed 'aura' as 'ass', like thicc aura, big aura etc