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Original poster

Unalive...!

60 replies

sparkleice · 16/06/2023 14:29

Dead!

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Evieanne · 16/06/2023 14:35

It’s because there’s words you can’t use or it gets flagged, hence why they say unalive, grape etc

CaloundraBlues · 16/06/2023 14:34

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 16/06/2023 14:32

It's horrid isn't it. But I think it's to avoid the auto filter thing that gets triggered by the word dead / death.

See also: Seggs Envy

What's Seggs?

Colinthedaxi · 16/06/2023 14:33

It’s common on Bored Panda so possibly come from Reddit? Gives me the rage as well OP!!

PuffinsRocks · 16/06/2023 14:33

It's because social media censors the word "dead" because it was used for either suicide or threats of violence and they wanted to stamp out that content so people carefully skate around it by saying unalive so they don't fall foul of censorship rules (especially when it's just bots doing the censoring and banning people etc) in places like TikTok, Facebook etc.

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.

Soapboxqueen · 16/06/2023 14:33

I think it's because some social media platforms get upset at certain words so they have to use alternatives.

ChocHotolate · 16/06/2023 14:33

I've noticed this on ticktok and I assumed it was to get around some sort of filtering?

GrannyAchingsShepherdsHut · 16/06/2023 14:32

It's horrid isn't it. But I think it's to avoid the auto filter thing that gets triggered by the word dead / death.

See also: Seggs Envy

Maddy70 · 16/06/2023 14:32

I have honestly never seen anything with "unalive" in

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sparkleice · 16/06/2023 14:30

maybe i should have put more in to the OP - what I meant to say before hitting post, was is anyone else fed up with the "unalive" instead of dead texts you see on social media?

I saw it in a suggested group

"Eternal dandelion, with an unalive butterfly my husband found in the garden last week. I'll post an update when it opens!"

Seriously - the butterfly is DEAD

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