I concede this isn’t “news,” but it’s too good not to share!

  • @Pixelguin
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    6 months ago

    TikTok and Instagram are very picky about language and will algorithmically suppress you if you use words they deem to be “brand-risky.” As a response we now have people on social media training themselves to cover up letters in perfectly normal words, say “unalive” instead of “die/kill,” etc.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      don’t forget the creativity like “deleted from the census” or “bought the farm” or “bit the dust”, etc. There is a poetry to avoiding a filter.