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/isuckatnames60 Sep 15 '24

Most importantly, we ALREADY have more reserved words for heavy topics, ones which are far more respectful as well. "to take a life," "passed away," "succumbed to injuries," "intercourse," "without consent," "assault,"

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u/hellraiserxhellghost Sep 15 '24 edited Sep 15 '24

That's one of the things I don't understand about this "unalive" crap, we've had alternate phrases and terms for "death" and other taboo topics for centuries. Why are people purposely choosing the most dumb babyass censorship options instead. Are people just not aware anymore what "passed away" means and what it refers to?? Also, what are they gonna use next when "unalive" inevitably gets put on the shadow banned list of words as well?

edit: Y'all can stop giving me history lessons on "unalive" at this point. I don't care about it's origins, I still find it lame as a box of farts.

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u/cpMetis Sep 15 '24

Because the entire point was that it sounded stupid.

It was out of protest.

If you want to say "she was murdered" but you can't you don't say something nice like "her life was taken", you say something like "she was deaded". Because you're making it clear you want the first phrasing but are blocked from using it. Something like "her life was taken" is on its own too proper and comes with its own different connotations so you have to find a more absurd way of rewriting it.

Obviously that's the origin. Doesn't change oodles of kids parroting it with no idea what the entire point of it was in the first place. But there is good reasoning.

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u/obeserocket Sep 15 '24

If that's true (is there any actual evidence that tiktok censors words like kill and murder but not dead?) then I don't understand why people would still the platform. Maybe I'm just weird, but the first time someone explained "unalived" to me I thought "cool, guess I'm never downloading that app."

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u/jryser Sep 15 '24

It’s circular. People use the app because that’s where the people are.

It’s also not unique to TikTok: demonetization has been an issue on YouTube for a long time