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Original poster

Unalive...!

60 replies

sparkleice · 16/06/2023 14:29

Dead!

OP posts:
cannaecookrisotto · 16/06/2023 20:08

It's to get round flagging and filtering.

GottaGirlcrush · 16/06/2023 20:07

afaloren · 16/06/2023 14:33

You’re not allowed to say dead or kill myself or various other things on tiktok so it comes from that.

Says who?

Original poster
sparkleice · 16/06/2023 17:48

Theunamedcat · 16/06/2023 15:36

You should try explaining how to do DIY on Facebook or talk about weeds on my animal crossing group you cannot nail ANYTHING to a wall screw anything etc etc and weeds? Have to be spelt w33ds

I posted about my weeds are dead
Dead dead dead

Not blocked, or removed on facebook

OP posts:
Soubriquet · 16/06/2023 16:14

Fb is horrible for this. I hate seeing it. Dead is a normal word. It shouldn’t be corrected

Original poster
sparkleice · 16/06/2023 16:12

Well it's stupid, because the apps can just add to the filters, its no hard to do

But I guess the apps like it as they can pretend they are being careful

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Gingernaut · 16/06/2023 16:08

I've seen this on TikTok, Instagram and Facebook

Murder, death suicide and a whole host of other words are caught by antisocial usage filters, so in order to get around the filters, killers "merc" their victims, suicides "unalive" themselves or "check out"

EyelessArseFace · 16/06/2023 16:04

TheCatterall · 16/06/2023 15:51

@EyelessArseFace generally not the case - you can get social media bans and timeouts for using dead and sex etc. This brought about unalive and ‘seggs’.

Groups that commonly have those words used in posts face being marked down by fb and can have restrictions placed on them.

How stupid.

Cas112 · 16/06/2023 15:54

MyFaceIsAnAONB · 16/06/2023 14:57

It’s because the apps detect talk of suicide etc and take your post down. So it’s a way to get around that. I mean it’s pretty obvious really.

I thought it was obvious too

Cas112 · 16/06/2023 15:53

I think it's more to do with the apps.. certain words flag up and they delete the posts etc

TheCatterall · 16/06/2023 15:51

@EyelessArseFace generally not the case - you can get social media bans and timeouts for using dead and sex etc. This brought about unalive and ‘seggs’.

Groups that commonly have those words used in posts face being marked down by fb and can have restrictions placed on them.

TheMurderousGoose · 16/06/2023 15:49

StrawberryWater · 16/06/2023 14:59

I see this all the time and it bugs the shot out of me, it’s stupid. Just say dead already.

Just say 'shit' already.

EyelessArseFace · 16/06/2023 15:44

Whenever I've seen this, I just assume that the person who wrote it is... erm... unintelligent.
😂

Theunamedcat · 16/06/2023 15:36

You should try explaining how to do DIY on Facebook or talk about weeds on my animal crossing group you cannot nail ANYTHING to a wall screw anything etc etc and weeds? Have to be spelt w33ds

Dangeliss · 16/06/2023 15:32

It's annoying, but not nearly as annoying as luddites making knee-jerk assumptions that The Youth deliberately chose to say "unalive" purely to be snowflakes, which honestly I see more of here.

SirenSays · 16/06/2023 15:06

It seems to only detect the words not the context so even mentioning games or movies with die or dead in the title get flagged. It's also why so many use the emoji now. S🥚S - sex, 🌽/🌟 porn/porn star, 🍒-boobs....

StrawberryWater · 16/06/2023 14:59

I see this all the time and it bugs the shot out of me, it’s stupid. Just say dead already.

MyFaceIsAnAONB · 16/06/2023 14:57

It’s because the apps detect talk of suicide etc and take your post down. So it’s a way to get around that. I mean it’s pretty obvious really.

cocksstrideintheevening · 16/06/2023 14:56

Tiktok

TheMurderousGoose · 16/06/2023 14:55

Yeah, it's not a cutsie way of saying 'dead', it's a way to say something without getting banned on certain social media platforms.

Seasonofthewitch83 · 16/06/2023 14:51

Words like suicide and dead are censored on many social media apps, and I think its then just translated into every day speech, especially for teens.

Sd352 · 16/06/2023 14:46

I was listening to a Gardener's World podcast and the guest presenter kept using the term "unalive" -- it was my first time hearing it and it was horrid! I thought your post was referring to that, I didn't realise it was more widespread.

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 16/06/2023 14:37

Yeah this is all thanks to tiktok filters

Dominoeffecter · 16/06/2023 14:36

Sewer slide is another

Rewis · 16/06/2023 14:35

CaloundraBlues · 16/06/2023 14:34

What's Seggs?

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Rewis · 16/06/2023 14:35

To my understanding it's to avoid the automatic censorship that has dead/murder/suicide added as trigger words. It's all over reddit and tiktok.