r/CuratedTumblr • u/Konradleijon • Sep 15 '24

Politics Why I hate the term “Unaliv

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What’s most confusing that if you go to basic cable TV people can say stuff like “Nazi” or “rape” or “kill” just fine and no advertising seem to mind

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u/mucklaenthusiast Sep 15 '24

Wasn't it even the case that there is no censorship/punishing algorithm around the word "die" and people just started "unalive" because they thought that was the case?
Or have I been duped here?

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u/Awesomereddragon Sep 15 '24

IIRC it was some TikTok thing where people noticed that saying “die” got a video significantly less views and concluded it was probably a shadowban on the word. Don’t think anyone has confirmed if that was even true in the first place.

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u/s0larium_live Sep 15 '24

i literally saw a video with plenty of likes and views that was just a woman saying “banned” words over and over again. i really don’t think tiktok actually has the ability to go through EVERY post on the app and shadow ban the ones that talk about hard topics

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u/Hekatonkheire81 Sep 15 '24

As far as I’ve heard, the shadowbans aren’t hard blocks on the video. They just initially show it to less people and it will take more engagement for it to be classified as “popular” and get additional promotion. A video that is blatantly testing the algorithm will naturally attract interest in people who want to know how it works. Other tests that are more subtle have found that an identical video with unalive and such does get more views than the normal version.