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I love hearing increasingly tortured euphemisms for death, murder and suicide because people don't want to get flagged by bots looking for advertiser-unfriendly content (hexbear.net)

submitted 9 months ago by doublepepperoni@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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If I hear "unalive" as a verb one more time dean-frown

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[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm not saying using colourful euphemisms for death isn't funny, I love wordplay. It's just depressing when people start doing it subconsciously because of shitty algorithms that don't even work because people will indeed just sidestep them by being creative

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

He's a fun exception and shitty algorithm is probably a part of why but you could get there just by being funny too. I'm generally anti-euphemistic language as a common use, harsh terms are needed to describe harsh subjects.