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It's a humorous intentional mistake that is popular in some parts of the internet.

Interestingly, It's becoming much more common for young people to use obscured phrases for advertiser-unfriendly but non-profane terms. For example, using un-aliving instead of commit suicide. It's not an ironic usage, but an actual usage to avoid getting agorithim'd on social media websites, but it leaks out into domains where advertiser unfriendliness isn't actually a problem (like HN for example) and gets used in the same way. It's a real time example of the intersection of marketing and technology shaping language and it's kind of fascinating.

I have personally heard "unalived" spoken aloud by teenagers on multiple occasions. One of the many positive effects tiktok has had on the United States.

Reminds me of a now-old Doctor Who story (Paradise Towers) where the girl k^Hgangs used "unalive" the same way (although usually they were murder victims)

Why would young people care if their tweet/tik is advertiser friendly? It seems like it would be the platforms, not the users, that encourage this behaviour?

They care because your content gets scrubbed without warning by the algorithm, and there is no way to appeal.

The problem is particularly acute on YouTube.

> The problem is particularly acute on YouTube.

And tiktok.

And Twitch which is also trigger happy with the TOS violations.

So the users don't care, but are forced to care by their platforms arbitrary rules?

If it were actual rules, it would be a lot simpler even if it were arbitrary. But usually it's AI blackbox decisions with very few humans you can ever talk to afterwards, even if the person in question makes a living from their account.

From what I gathered on HN, there are known but undocumented cases of FAANG employees extracting sexual or other favors for account unlocks or arbitrarily seizing accounts with noteworthy usernames.

Kids invented slang since long before Internet.

Being humorous about someone's suicide is kind of fucked up IMO

Edit am illiterate, finna an heroize

Welcome to the Internet.

As someone who barely survived attempted suicide 10 years ago, I completely disagree.

Your past doesn't qualify you more than other people to talk about suicide. We can play the "who's had more experience" game to prove my point but I'm just going to leave it at if someone made fun of my brother's suicide with "he committed sudoku (laughing crying emoji)" then I would be pretty sad. And that I misread OP anyway

I had no intention to portray myself as more qualified to talk about it. I should have made myself more clear, I'm sorry about that. I was offering my point of view on it. It's of course completely subjective, so your perspective is no less valid than mine. I should have been more explicit about that.

And the example you cited wouldn't be okay with me at all. I was thinking more about suicide related humour in general, I guess.

To me personally it's always been important to be open about it and to have some irony to get past the shame I had to work through.

I get why you feel that way, having lost your brother. Just last month my brother died at 39 from complication after a long life of drug addiction. If someone tried to joke about him I would probably lose it and just start shouting at them.

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