Unalive...!

It's only obvious if you use those apps, you may be shocked to find out not everyone is on tiktok!

I got deleted from a wildlife identification group on Facebook recently for saying wasps were arseholes! Apparently they don't allow swearing (since when is arse a swear word?!), needless to say I left the group.

It's just to get around bots flagging and removing their content. Which has financial implications for some of the content creators.
Tbh I find it no more annoying than the abbreviations used on MN. Like DD, D's MIL. Etc

I thought it was an incel thing.

God you're miserable.

Wherever it’s come from it does seem to be conditioning a generation to be triggered by certain words and concepts. Language evolves, certainly, but I’m not sure these changes, with their perceived protection of the vulnerable, are going to produce resilient adults.

I fully understand why it’s happened, filters - I used to be on a poultry forum that filtered out the word cock, which was fun.

Never seen "unalive". I prefer my grandsons explanation (age three) about an unalive rabbit we saw on the road side.

" Its dead. That means it's not working any more".

I do get why you think its awful.

When emojis became popular and everyone starting littering thier messages with stupid smiley faces, I thought it was bloody stupid.
I hated it.

Surely you can message me and not add a ridiculous 😂- urgh

But then a friend was describing an ex boyfriend and messaged "what a 🔔🔚". And I loved it.

Now I use emoji with the best of them

"this is not shorter or text speak, its wank speeck of people thinking they are so clever to come up with words that get through filters"

Yeah OP, you're cleverer

It's still language that's evolved because of technology

Text speak or gamer speak evolved because it was quicker than typing out the words
Using alternatives to "dead" or " sex" has evolved to get around filters on social media.

Either way, they both came about because of technology.

You think it's wank speak, thats OK.
in the 90s, my parents thought text speak/gamer speak was wank speak for lazy uneducated people.

In 20/30 years time we will have new technology and there will be new slang and lanuage will evolve because of that technology.
If Mumsnet is still around, no doubt there will be a whole new generation complaining on MN about the "wank speak" people are using.

Might seem daft but if you run a group on FB and get too many dings for breaking various word filters or 'community standards' which is easy to do...

For example, mistyping 'you dog' instead of 'your dog'...

Then you can get temporarily suspended, unable to post in groups or do admin tasks etc etc, or worse!

I run or admin around 30 groups, some of which are income generating. I cannot risk losing functionality on FB because I wrote 'your bitch is dead pretty' or 'I have died of cuteness overload you twat, stop sending me puppy porn'...

Even video sound content can be monitored, I have had friends have accounts suspended, videos removed, for totally innocent commentary, that is flagged because the bots do not grasp context at all.

FB is rolling out the ability for admins to say 'no FB, this is actually ok in the context of our group' but it is slow (not in any of the groups I currently manage!)

It's just modern slang as a result of new technology.

To me, it's no different then how "text speak" slang came about.

I remember my parents being cross about the destruction of language because of "r u ok", "omg" and "lol" or "I h8 u" 😁

But now it's part and parcel of everyday language. Some people still use it, some don't. I've caught my parents sending an occasional OMG.
We've just become our parents and now we are the ones complaining about this new slang.

For anyone who is under the age of 20 and doesnt know what im talking about, back in the old days when mobile phones became affordable, they were very basic. We didn't have cool mini keyboards like we do on our smart phones.
Instead only had the number key pads and each number was allocated 3 letters.
To type a SMS message, you had to keep pressing the right number until you got the letter you wanted.
It took bloody ages to write a text message.
So, text speak evolved so it would be quicker.

As others have said, it’s due to censorship on a lot of sites although I have noticed it spill over into real life on our CAMHS unit.
If teens find it easier to say that they want to in alive themselves rather than that they want to kill themselves that’s fine, I just want them to be able to express that.

I love this.

I've not seen it as a euphemism for death in general, just 'unalived himself' etc

It started as a euphemism for s***e because some platforms like YouTube demonetize or hide videos that mention that.

I think it's quite clever.

It's to avoid being censored.

I am a member of a couple of FB groups and they keep getting flagged for use of the word "men" so it has to be written "m3n" instead.

Argh yes! Unalive I can just about understand (though it grates on me) but seggs just yeauch.
Even secs I could just about see but seggs just sounds sludgy and horrible.

When a mummy and a daddy love each other very much…

Yeah and seggs for sex.

This. I'm seeing a fair bit of nem rather than men when saying something negative. As well as other words being jumbled up a bit to escape the filters.

The flagging is random as well which doesn't help.

Soon words won't make much sense at all.