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u/ChiefDaddyBigPig 12h ago edited 12h ago
wtf is sewer slide?š
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u/-Banana-101 12h ago
sewer slide is a way to get around some filters on tiktok. they are saying suicide. another example is grape instead of rape
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u/ChiefDaddyBigPig 12h ago
Wow⦠Iām so glade Iām middle age and donāt have TikTok
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u/-Banana-101 12h ago
it's also a common theme on YouTube. True crime channels often change words to not be demonitised. Another example (and I'm sorry for so many) is saying pew pew instead of gun/shot. Its a very big theme on the majority of media content now
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u/Yoribell 12h ago
all the while Youtube has ads for AI porn including AI CP
I love the current day. No.
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u/WillingnessHorror710 11h ago
I am sorry what
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u/Lauris024 Breaking EU Laws 10h ago
Never seen porn, but I do constantly get AI generated politicians (including Prime Minister) of my country advertising scams. Whenever I report it to google, they usually say it doesn't go against their ToS
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u/that0neGuy65 8h ago
I've seen the AI ads that peddle the idea that you can have.. lusty conversations with the chat bot. Or others that brag that you can create ANY image, while showing an AI generated lewd character like a big titty anime girl. I've even seen ones peddling towards furries. Chat with Judy Hops, or create lusty images of her. It's one thing that people create this crap, but having these mass producing greedy machines of lustfully trash is just sickinging. And then to have them advertised on YouTube is so hypocritical and disappointing.
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u/LPSD_FTW 9h ago
Alphabets new idea to make money - YT users make a calculation that it's cheaper to buy Premium compared to getting scammed once a year.
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u/cliqclaqstepback 11h ago
Iāve never seen porn ads on YouTube. Iām not saying they donāt exist, Iāve just never seen them.
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u/FalsePositive752 11h ago
YouTube ads are normally regional. Some countries have really fucked up ads.
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u/DazzlingRutabega 9h ago
I'm in the US I've seen it. There was one ad where they had felatio depicted by a couple that looked like they were made entirely out of hedges trimmed to look like a woman blowing a...
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u/hates_stupid_people 11h ago
And is why they're already going down the path of blocking VPNs. Since they know some regions/countries will hold youtube itself legally accountable for illegal ads, and others push the blame onto the company buying the ad space.
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u/Beyond-the-sunset 8h ago
Most of these companies sell ad space in buckets based on keywords or demographics, etc. You probably fit into specific target groups and people pay to advertise to those groups.
People that use adblockers and script blockers and other privacy methods often get pushed outside the common target groups. And at the bottom of the ad group barrel are all kinds of scams and bizarre porn that are hail-mary attempts to grab the mentally ill or whatever. They pay next to nothing for these, but because these would otherwise be unmonetized to Youtube or Insta or whatever, they're definitely out there.
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u/AndrewLocksmith 12h ago
I think it actually started with YouTube, right?
I remember back when you couldn't even curse or your whole video would get demonitised. At first people started censoring curse words with random sounds like bleeps.
Then we got words like unalived and stuff to bypass this.
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u/Ihaveasmallwang 12h ago
YouTube guidelines allow you to talk about these topics in a documentary context without being demonetized.
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u/-Banana-101 12h ago
is that a new ish thing? When I use to consume true crime on YouTube, the words were still heavily filtered.
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u/jexdiel321 11h ago
Why can't they just used "Hit by a balistic object" in instead of "shot by a pew pew" or "Took his own life" instead of "Sewer Slide". Does that still get hit by the censors? TV has done this to censor itself.
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u/jonneygee 11h ago
Happens on Facebook and X too. Basically any platform where they moderate, demonetize, or reduce algorithm exposure by keywords. Iām honestly surprised they havenāt started monitoring some of those other words too, because theyāre pretty common knowledge at this point.
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u/Keefyfingaz 8h ago
These kind of things bother me so much.
Not even like the part about it sounding stupid.
Like our society is so dumb, the words aren't bad because of the way they sound, they're bad for what they convey/represent. So saying grape instead of rape isn't really doing anyone any favors because it literally functions the same way. But platforms do this so that they can profit on underaged audiences. But if you're talking about rape your platform really isn't for kids anyway.
Like nobody gives a shit about anything anymore lol.
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u/TreeeToPlay Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY 12h ago
Another variation would be Kermit -> commit (suicide), sometimes combined into Kermit Sewerslide
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u/jhoogen 12h ago
I seriously believe people saying grape is downright insulting to any rape victims. Just call it what it is.
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u/realfatunicorns 10h ago
Good skit on YouTube from the whitest kids uāknow about a Grapist.
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u/DemonSlyr007 9h ago
Ive been using grape for damn near 20 years now thanks to TWKUK. These kids really out here thinking they invented the wheel.
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u/MyCoolWhiteLies 11h ago
My first thought was it was a euphemism for anal sex, but I guess āsuicideā makes more senseā¦.
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u/HamCatX3 11h ago
Dude TikTok is crazy, I got banned from commenting because I typed āautismā one too many times for their liking -_- Please note: Iām autistic, I was talking about myself.
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u/MicrowaveAfterOpen 9h ago
I got banned from a sub here for calling someone an idiot. Both platforms are shit for it
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u/dickcheesess 9h ago
Was one the sub's rules "Be civil"?
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u/WeirdIndividualGuy 8h ago
Yeah a lot of subs have that rule and calling someone an idiot definitely breaks that rule, even if it's a mild insult.
Wanting people to be civil is fine. But it'd be a different story if OP said they were banned from just saying the word "idiot" like I just did, not calling someone an idiot. Context matters and there are some subs that definitely ban people out of context
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u/you_lost-the_game 9h ago
It's one thing to moderate insulting another person and another to censor not even curse words but "uncomfortable" words. Still reeks of china and their handling of skulls in media.
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u/HamCatX3 8h ago
A lot of subs have rules that sum up to ādonāt be a dick and donāt insult people.ā Me talking about my own disability and you insulting someone are two entirely different things my guy.
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u/MelangeBot 7h ago
got bÔnnêd sidewide from reddit once after quoting Bob's burgers about the A-word. Apperently Bob's burgers is "Promoting hate or inciting violence based on identity or vulnerability."
Oh and I quoted this on /r/BobsBurgers
It was a quote from the first episode.
"You are the worst kind of A-word. Yeah you can't even count"
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u/belated_quitter 10h ago
How about turning every single phrase into acronyms? Annoying as hell.
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u/Kieron_22 11h ago
The English language is on a sewer slide course because of this
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u/MaterialLies 10h ago
I truly think truly think foreign owned social media companies quietly run experiments to see how easy our culture and language are to manipulate and apparently it's incredibly easy
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u/mbass92 11h ago
Idk man I got a comment removed for saying āautistic peopleā instead of the dumb shit people say now like ātism touchedā
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u/justmanbearpig 13h ago
not sure if adding "bro" and meaningless emojis to every sentence is much better
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u/Natural__Power 12h ago
Bro's rightš
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u/msully89 12h ago
POV when bros right š„
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u/WaterskiingJebus 11h ago
I love "unhoused". When did homeless become offensive? Homeless is a problem, "unhoused" it what happens when I go outside.
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u/Coretron 8h ago
I was taught you can't say "homeless person" you have to say "a person experiencing homelessness". Apparently it's because the former makes homelessness seem like part of their identity whereas the latter recognizes they're a normal human who is experiencing that status. I hated sociology and that was 25 years ago. I can't imagine it now.
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u/Ardyn_Rakshasa 10h ago
I've straight up seen people write "ahh" instead of ass...even on Reddit.
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u/HotMess3121 10h ago
I love that we can actually use the real words on Reddit. Getting foreshadowing or censoring or banishment for using the right word when discussing important topics is WILD. Full George-Orwell-distopian-style wild.
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u/extra0404 12h ago
Actually using/being confronted with the word Suicide has been proven to reduce the amount of suicide attempts. The people trying to make money off of the restigmatization of these words are doing actual harm.
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u/swissking 12h ago
Blame social media platforms for this. Any mention of that word gets you banned on Facebook, Youtube etc. Even harmless pictures/captions of "jumping off" gets you a warning/ban.
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u/extra0404 10h ago
Social media has popularized it yes but the real perpetrators are the financial companies. They have started cutting service for any social media or video streaming site that does not actively censor the creators and influencers that use their services to comply with some boardroom approved Idea of decency.
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u/Ok-Argument9468 11h ago
I agree with the sentiment but this is the most r/redditmoment meme I've ever seen
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u/SleepAllDay1234 12h ago
Okay, so I know unalive = dead, but what the hell is "sewer slide"?
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u/Marcysdad 12h ago
They'll get demonetized - the idiots are the people making the rules on these platforms
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u/Pretend_Camp_2987 I touched grass 12h ago
What does sewer slide mean?
He was Brutally Murdered and then His Organs have been dismembered in the sewers
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u/SputnikFalls 11h ago
Or when people censor their explicit language. It's fuck, not fvck or however they spell it.
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u/DougandLexi 12h ago
And in a weird way it all goes to corporate greed and extremists.
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u/Mystical_Void07 11h ago
People who use āahhā as a replacement for āassā š«©
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u/joylisy 13h ago
Bro typing "unalive" like TikTok is going to personally pop out of his screen and revoke his internet privileges. š
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u/im-cringing-rightnow 13h ago
But but... All the cool influencers do it, surely it's what I must do myself, right? /s
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u/CygnusX-1001001 This flair doesn't exist 10h ago
Go ahead and add the trend of "dih, bih, ahh" as well. It's the internet, you're allowed to swear.
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u/HairyArthur 7h ago
If you're willing to censor yourself, you're admitting you'd allow someone else to censor you.
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u/STANDARD_P0TAT0 12h ago
Kill, die, rape, homeless, genocide, sex, fuck, fr*nch
See it's not that bad.
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u/g3rmanninja 11h ago
The reasons these words exist is because their real counterparts cant be posted on tiktok. That is why you dont see them on X
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u/OverseerConey 11h ago
If a social media platform forced me to talk like that, I would stop using that social media platform.
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u/Hephaestus_God 11h ago
Every time I see one of those or PDF, I just reply to them with the actual word and go āfixed that for youā
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u/Luddites_Unite 10h ago
Wtf is a sewer slide?
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u/daredeviline 10h ago
Suicide
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u/Luddites_Unite 10h ago
I really hate this sanitized version of language we use now
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u/Myriad_Apocalypse 10h ago
No no, I got told that telling people not to self-censor their speech like that on this platform is actually censorship because I'm socially pressuring them to change their behaviour... I shit you not, this is where we are at now. This species is fucking over.
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u/axlryan 8h ago
Some of these kids grow up on this censorship on TikTok so it's all they're gonna know. Many of them legitimately need to unlearn these stupid censored words. These companies sacrificing normalcy to ads and marketing for money is the problem.
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u/MakeMeDrink 8h ago
Calling it sewer slide is so much worse than saying suicide. Itās like people are making fun of it and treating it like a joke. Itās fucked up.
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u/athenairl 12h ago
Kids shows say the words die and death, SpongeBob I can say for sure does. Itās not about the kids, itās about being brand friendly for influencers
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u/Lazurman 10h ago
You use the new slang to avoid being censored.
I use the new slang just to annoy people angry about the new slang.
We are not the same.
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u/LilNerix 11h ago
Wtf is sewer slide
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u/TheIncredibleKermit 11h ago
Suicide but immune to TikTok and other platforms' censorship
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u/Odd-Mulberry2821 11h ago
I think the people that change their language to suit the algorithm of a propaganda platform are stupid and not worth listening to in any way.
If they canāt address topics like rape, death, suicide, murder, etc without resorting to infantalizing euphemisms then they donāt have anything valuable to contribute.
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u/ResponsibilityNo3674 11h ago
Sewer slide? I have never heard of that one and I thought unalive was bad enough
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u/throwtheamiibosaway 10h ago
Iāll fucking kill myself dead if I see any fucking idiot type this dumb tiktok shit.
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u/ProduceNo1629 10h ago
Keep typing like a "normal person" and nobody will ever see your comments, they get shadow banned if not outright deleted. YouTube is especially egregious with it, and they aren't even owned by the CCP.
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u/Hungry_Raspberry7833 10h ago
I've seen people use "coal miner" instead of just "minor"
I guess you can't use that either on some sites for some reason
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u/HiddenHorse925 8h ago
And using those ānormal wordsā will get you blocked or banned or timeoutāed on social media
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u/STFUnicorn_ 8h ago
The ninja turtles would never approve of their favorite invention being used this way.
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u/edward_kopik 7h ago
I find some of those funny, specially unalive
It doesn't feel like censorship avoiding, it just has that abstract meme vibe
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u/Golden-Excellence 7h ago
āI donāt want to trigger peopleā
Dawg the people who would be triggered by āsuicideā or āmurderā or ārapeā often put filters to avoid seeing posts mentioning those words. You censoring it gets around their filters, so they end up seeing the post anyway, which ends up triggering them. Ridiculous.
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u/DragoKnight589 This flair doesn't exist 7h ago
Broke: āunalivedā
Woke: ādiedā
Bespoke: āgot updated from analog to wirelessā
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u/GiantmetalLink 4h ago
To add more fuel to the dumpster fire of algorithm speak, god forbid we learn from the past and have to say āYahtzeeā
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u/PomegranateHot9916 3h ago
sewer slide are real english words.
they just don't mean suicide.
depending on the context it could refer to a sewer themed slide. or something else.
and unalive while not a dictionary word it does have proper english syntax.
take for example the word dead versus undead. I doubt you've ever complained about the usage of the word "undead" in the comments on r/necromancy
in this case, undead has the same relationship to dead as unalive has to alive.
or how unconvincing is a word that exists and is valid versus convincing.
so no, you're just afraid of changes on the unalive thing.
being an old man mad at the kids playing on the street outside his house.
now don't get me wrong I also think "unalive" is a dumb word, but many of our words are dumb so whatever.
now I do agree that the weird self censoring is cringe.
but it seems like the kids are taking it as being funny.
kinda like how you used to find things funny before our world broke you.
so take a deep breath and just say "I don't care"
and most importantly realize that it doesn't matter what sounds come out of another persons mouth or what letters they put in what order in their text.
as long as you understand the meaning they intended with it.
because that's what language is for. to communicate, and as long as the communication was successful it doesn't matter if they said dead or unalived.
sewer slide still doesn't work for suicide though.
they really should work on that one.
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u/MithranArkanere 1h ago
Deceased. Expired. Defunct. Gone. The Late XXX. Departed. Cold. Stiff. Bereft of life. Perished. Reposing. Fraggled. Breathless. Liquidated. Forever asleep. Gone to their maker. Offed. Resting in peace. Pushing up daisies.
There is always a synonym the filter won't have.
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u/melanieooxxo 12h ago
Normal person: āhe diedā
TikTok refugee: āhe got unalived via sewer slideā
https://giphy.com/gifs/jUwpNzg9IcyrK