This shit drives me up the wall even more than “unalive”
You can’t stop people saying slurs but an entire generation will subconsciously alter their entire vocabulary because they grew up on corporate platforms with very heavily moderated text chats and comment sections and they ended up internalising the filters
Edit: I was not aware of the AAVE origins of “ahh” which pushes it more towards the territory of legit slang. Still, I stand by my general point about automated moderation influencing language being bad
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 was confused for a moment then realised those words are probably on a no-no list because of violence or self-harm associations
This shit is grim
It’s fucking hilarious how there legit is a fuckton of censorship everywhere but chuds yelling slurs is mysteriously exempt.
They can post swastikas but the guy who calls them a “stupid jerk” gets banned for using what are now considered swear words.
Calling someone a jerk is mean and disruptive
Promoting national socialism is just expressing a political opinion
Literally 1984, but people still think its eevul cpu and tankies that are doing it.
I don’t get this. I was searching YouTube to find a video of a feral hog one time and all the videos were like, “Killing feral hogs with (model of gun)” and “Watch Jane kill 40 feral hogs in 30 minutes”. Presumably these are monetized videos because they had professional looking thumbnails and clickbaity titles.
How is it that you can’t say knife and be monetized but you can do an animal genocide on film? Is this overzealous self censorship or preferential treatment of gun channels?
The interesting thing is that “cut” was in the short’s title — so I think it was maybe originally posted to TikTok and was later posted to YouTube.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: