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Those only stand out because they're new. We've had polite ways of talking about death or suicide or whatever for centuries, and I'm sure we will forever, because the subject itself is harsh. Sometimes you need to use slightly distant language. Sometimes that's the right tool for the job.
The only difference now is that the expressions people are using were chosen involuntarily. But that doesn't tell us anything about the speakers. It only tells us something about the censors.
I thought they started using those euphemisms because of platform censorship?
They did, but then it has begun to become part of the collective consciousness over time in regular speech because of that.
Absolutely this. Seeing people say unalive because they learned to speak trying not to anger The Algorithm is a bit sad.
what ticks me off about it is the specific euphemisms chosen, they're so fucking soulless..
i've heard people say "slimed" instead of "shot" in reference to charlie kirk getting shot to death, and that feels like something that wasn't created just to circumvent tiktok censorship.
Agreed.
It's not disconnected from people typing sht or fck when on their own time and their parents aren't reading.
You're a grown adult, if you want to say fuck, say fuck. If you disapprove of swearing, don't use it. But don't pseudo-expunge your own language. Thomas Bowdler isn't watching.
There once was a fucking time kids could their own language to their peers and everyone knew what they meant by it. But now we have robloxs speak and all of YouTube to inject brainrot straight into you're brain. Hell my first boyfriend was raised an iPad kid and ultimately we couldn't have conversations that would go anywhere. I at least steered him away from Trump (he thought trump would legalize weed, which he found on tiktok 🥱)
I'm glad a third is keeping the millennial torch lit