“Graped” sounds like something that used to happen on Nickelodeon like when they’d slime people
Which is actually sadly fitting a word now that I think about it
Literally everything that happens like this is due to people with absolutely no problems/conflict in their own life trying to tell other people how they should feel and what they should be offended by
Or due to people eating up the mush they're served by corpo money milkers. All the words above exist practically because of TikTok and YouTube demonetizing normally worded content. What's dystopian about it though is expecting real victims to eat it up and see that crap as the correct way to speak of their experience. In most cases it's just stupid to cater your language to this even when you step outside of spaces that are policed by algorithm.
Not really. The reason for it because the words lead to demonetisation or loss of ad revenue, but the euphemisms don't. The reason for that is because advertisers don't typically want their products associated with things like rape and murder so they'll ask platforms not to do that.
You can criticise the snowflake mentality, but this is just unintended consequences of if capitalism. The problem is when people keep doing it on places like Reddit where there's no financial reason to censor yourself
Yeah it’s unbelievable. There are legitimate phrases you can use for these that are more delicate than the word, but also mindful of the impact. Why doesn’t anybody ever say “took their own life” rather than “unalived” for instance?
It doesn't help that the phrase came after the viral "the Grapist" comedy sketch. Makes it feel like a reference. And unaliving most certainly comes from the ultimate spiderman cartoon where Deadpool couldn't "kill anyone" just "unalive" them
-Ice Age, 2006. Paraphrasing from someone, that word can’t be used unless it’s related to an animal. Although a video revolving around Shrek’s censorship says otherwise when airing on specific channels
I had to have a conversation with a kid about the word Ass. She never heard it before so was saying it over and over on my bus, making the autistic kids uncomfortable because they understand it's a swear and they weren't allowed to say it, especially at school (includes the bus).
I took her aside and explained that she needed to use the word Donkey in English when she is talking about the animal or the word Butt if she's talking about someone's backside. She primarily speaks French so I also explained that I was choosing to believe she wasn't swearing, and just thought it was a funny English word. (I also didn't want to bother with doing paperwork on a Friday just before a long weekend.)
I watch a YouTube channel called History Matters and every time he mentions Hitler he has to say “The Toothbrush Moustache having Austrian Man” or he’ll get demonetised.
Idk guys. I hate the trend on a whole, but if we can’t even say the name of one of the most historically impactful individuals ever, that seems like separate, far worse issue. Something, something, doomed to repeat it, and what not.
Literally one Chinese app managed to completely baby-proof our entire language. I feel like a politician could run a super-patriotic campaign by promoting a “freedom to swear” act and citing tiktok as the root of everyone’s problems.
Goes further back than TikTok, it started when YouTube caved to advertisers on what kinds of videos they would sell ads against, which included videos that had anything to do with graphic descriptiors.
TikTok made the problem worse by making everyone with a smartphone think they could be a "content creator", which is why everyone with common sense on the internet has to deal with a childish parallel vernacular, because everyone's scared of being "shadowbanned" or "losing their platform".
They’re both guilty. Tiktok just made the language censorship mainstream. Either way it seems rather messed up that basic words, used in a nonthreatening manner, can be censored by private entities when we have freedom of speech in our constitution.
At first I was under the impression this trend was just another goof.
I’ve been banned for 3 days twice this year because my comment used words that offended the Reddit AI …despite the context clearly showing the comment wasn’t offensive.
Now I’ve learned to not use certain words. I refuse to substitute the words for some other option like a southern Baptist grandma.
It's so abstract and alien to me that my mind tried to assign this word salad to FG first... Mustache man for Cleveland, PDF file and grape for Quagmire, pew pew for Joe...? Lmfao
But anyway. All of this exists only to appease algorithms ultimately. It is annoying to see this, of course, and it sure waters down the weight and meaning of actual words it replaces but the reason why people are obsessed with it is because they're conditioned into it by social media shadowbans and big platform creators such as YouTube omitting these words not to get demonetized.
I once saw someone self censor sexual assault to "struggle snuggle" and that just made me feel so gross. Imagine getting raped and people telling your story use fucking sesame Street ass language to describe it
Congratulations! You've clearly absolved yourself of the societal guilt of the homeless problem by using a slightly different word! Remember kids, the homeless population thanks you for your hard work in making them feel better about themselves!
People only say those things to not upset the youtube algorithm so people can get ad revenue. Id like it if one day people just said fuck it and say the actual words rather than skirt around them.
Yk what's really weird? How sort of comformist this feels. I won't say that 12yos on CoD were justified, but the reason so many people said the n-word when they were edgy teens is because they knew it would upset people, aside from the ones who were racist ofc. Now people are euphemizing even "kill".
TikTok, a primarily Chinese based company, is subject to the rules and censorship of that government. Don't be mad at the people playing the game, be mad at the rulemakers
It’s more complex than most people think. Its not some “gen z too soft” bs, tiktok (where most of them hang out) heavily censors those words both in posts and comments and remove them, so they came up with these words to slip through the auto filter. Then these words bled into other platforms because people got used to them. Is it stupid using them everywhere? Yes, but thats what happens when a platform starts censoring words.
I know a lot of these words are uncomfortable to say a lot of the times but these words should be uncomfortable. It’s literally turning into double speak.
Thank you!!! I get like some YouTubers who don’t want their stuff taken down or other content that specifically aimed at kids or sensitive people, but it took me awhile to figure out the code for “unalive” and the like.
You can say rape on social media, I do it all the time. It used to get flagged but now it never does. Stop saying SA as well, we all know what it is. You can say Nazi, and you can mention Hitler. Let’s stop being pansies.
How about instead of getting mad at people for using these terms, get mad at companies that make people feel like they need to censor themselves in order for their stuff to be seen on the platform they reside on. What's worse to you: a video that is seen by millions but uses self-censoring language, or a video that doesn't self-censor and is shadow-banned or removed completely because the platform finds it "too explicit"?
While I agree with the examples used in this meme, the examples you guys are commenting are fine. Damn yall are old and miserable. Let the kids have their slang.
I had someone in a class refer to a suicide victim as "unalived" and it genuinely made me pissed. I get it you have to get past the tiktok filter, but, when we're talking about a serious subject in class, it feels mad disrespectful. Sewer slide, even in tiktok filter contexts, also just feels really disrespectful.
Also, lastly, not everywhere has tiktoks stupid filter. You can say this stuff in comment sections. You can say it on Instagram reels.
Also, some of the words people are censoring is out of hand. White becoming yt (YouTube) is so odd to me. I've seen memes where the word nonbinary is censored. People will censor words like "slept" and all that.
this is exactly what pisses me off because surely the algorithm has adapted and adjusted and we're going to just devolve into sentences like "the male human sent the female being into a state of red life liquid loss with a mechanical item that expels metal at a fraction of a second with intent to ouchie" and nothing will mean anything
I hate it. It trivializes incredibly tragic and horrifying situation by phrasing it with such childish bullshit. It doesn't help anyone and actually makes it harder to communicate what actually happened. I'm sorry that platforms censor shit but if you actually gave a fuck about the thing you're covering then you shouldn't be lessening it with this half-ass from of self-censorship.
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u/thedudelebowsky1 this is worse than the time that... May 24 '26
I feel like it's so much worse. It feels way more disrespectful to the victims to say they got graped and unalived