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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (10 children)

How do we put an end to this ridiculous "unalive" trend? It's oppressive and childish.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago

Kinda already doing it by being on the fediverse since this trend is a direct result of corporate induced censorship aimed at keeping platforms “advertiser friendly”.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I believe it’s mostly to bypass mainstream social media filters. Words like ”killing” tend to be blocked.

While we’re speaking of putting an end to things, it would be nice to put an end of this meme image. She made a slightly funny face for one frame in a video, and now that’s her legacy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Meme police showing up in force ITT

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago

They've got a point, if you've not seen the full in-context video then you should absolutely watch it. She's 100000% right to make the face at the shitheel

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The meme police, they live inside of your head

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

It’s partially a cargo cult at the moment.

It used to be like that, people did their own captions for TikTok using capcut and corp-censored bad words in the text but still said them aloud.

But now TikTok can caption videos automatically and it WILL show “killed” and “murdered” if the word is said.

So if they wanted to censor something, it’s just a matter of a word filter from the captions

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Stop YouTube demonitizing content creators for using anything but euphemisms for death, even outside the context of actually telling people to kill others or themselves. It literally started because of YT policies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

they started to change, when youtube is switching to a more targeted audience of young children. thats why they have been heavy handing in moderating violence, sex on videos, or curse words. thats why MR beast is still big there. right wing content gets a free pass though for youtube.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Just say kill instead of this dystopian Tik Tok bullshit. I refuse to use any service that won't let me talk about the real world without using insane workarounds. It serves nobody's best interests and is only an arms race of fear because people think McDonald's would prefer to sell hamburgers next to the word unalive rather than dead or kill.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

I refuse to use newspeak

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Simple, just destroy all for profit social media. So easy. /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I don't even understand the point. I know americans love to censor stuff, but you just replace killing or death with unalive. Instead of pedophile you say pdf file and so on. Soon you'll be to sensitive to hear ualive, then some influencer make up a new word, until the english language just consists of the 9 least offensive emojis. And all for what? Because parents who are scared of bad words on the internet. And by bad words i mean words children learn by the age of 6

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I got banned from hexbear for asking the exact same question. Censoring the word doesn't eliminate the concept, or the act.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had this feeling as well but then I saw that one etymology guy on a podcast. He said using "unalive" has helped a lot of young people be able talk about suicide and death more openly and easily. I'm not going to grammar police then if it leads to growth and open discussion. Even if it sounds silly to me.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

The problem with treating certain words as taboo and then using euphemism around them is that it works for a few years tops before you need a new euphemism.

It's better to promote a society where things like death and suicide are not taboo.

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[–] [email protected] 112 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I feel bad for this lady. She was calm and talking in public with two other people and she gets meme'd like she was being unreasonable. She wasn't, but even if she was she wouldn't deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago

She was just mentioning US statistics of women victims of rape, like you said she wasn't doing anything to deserve ridicule and yet became the face of it

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I often think about this when I see people used in meme templates like this. Do they know?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Easy fix.

p1: 8647? HOW DARE YOU TALK ABOUT UNALIVING THE PRESIDENT! p2: AWESOME! BIDEN‘S GOT CANCER!

@[email protected] please edit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What was the context? This is the first time I've ever seen this person.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here it is: https://youtu.be/byOlBCpNKeM

Rewatching it, I used the word "calm" and I still think that but she was "yelling" but not due to the subject matter. It was more due to the number of people outside and the ambient sound.

Like, she's just on the side and talking to the guy to me. Not unreasonably.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm here for the observation but don't do my girl dirty like that. She's been through enough.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dunno but commenter above you probably means the fact her image was used for rabid feminists for hella long time, mostly in memes but not only.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And if you watch the original video she isn't rabid at all. They just took some unfortunate stills

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Story of 90% of internet memes, ain't it xD

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

This and all of the above, exactly. She did nothing wrong but some frustrated idiot managed to find one frame, and from then on that frame was plastered all over the internet to mean "insane triggered feminist" or whatever. I'm sure this person is sick and tired of seeing her face be used for "triggered feminist", not sure she'd like it to be used for "triggered MAGA" too. I'm sure we can find an actual triggered MAGA since persecution fetish is their favorite thing.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

typical trump, after that fake codolence message, he went on a rant said biden was hiding his cancer diagnosis for months.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (4 children)

…written by an intern or a PR specialist.

Donald could NEVER write that, now would he mention Melania

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago

8646: 😴 8647: 😡

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Pretty disturbing the number of lemmies who show up in that second panel, too.

If the hat fits...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Not sure if the comparison is apt: I think the lemmies in that second panel have a celebration party planned in the case a Trump assassination succeeds.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I won't party. you think I want this to be president?

1000001531

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What in the haunted Victorian porcelain doll is that and how was it allowed to claw its way out of the ninth circle of hell

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What does 8647 refer to? I feel like I'm missing something obvious.

Also not sure about using the picture of the manic looking liberal lady as a template for this. She probably hates Trump as much - if not more - than you. Plus she's had alt-right people posting these unflattering pictures of her online for years.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I did some thinking and I think it is a reference to '86ing' someone which is slang for kicking someone out. I only heard it used in the 2004 Leisure Suit Larry reboot (probably because I have never been kicked out of a bar). 47 is Trump since he is (unfortunately) the 47th president. So basically saying to kick him out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Thanks for explaining. Using numbers as political messaging is a bit weird. I'd only ever seen alt-right/crazy people do it before with 1488.

Edit: I believe you'd call it a shibboleth

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

1+4=5

2(8-5)=6

Trump will have three terms so 666 mark of the beast.

Trump is the Antichrist!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Why maga a her instead of literally any of the magas available?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Huh, the guy crying about 8647 posted 8646 s few years ago so zero self-reflection.

[–] andybytes 9 points 1 week ago

I wish both of these boomers would just fucking die already. And take Nancy Pelosi with you too and Chuck Schumer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (7 children)

MAGA and...certain... .ml users apparently

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I do not shed any tears for the politicians and leaders that croak. Perhaps, I will when for the one who builds a socialized healthcare system for every single legal US resident based on the same healthcare former President Biden is receiving.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I actually had a look in on /r/conservative today expecting glee but honestly it was full of good words (at least the most upvoted comments).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So only approved redditors can post or comment in r/conservative, but anyone with a reddit account can upvote. The upvote count and ratio has nothing to do with its approved posters view most of the time. The sub is mostly bots anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In a just world both would have been executed

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