cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23396300

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nickyflowers posts:

it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they’re in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like “unalive” and “seggs” because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they’re easier to market to

nickyflowers replies:
oh im sorry you’re a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa’s feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

  • MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1071·
    1 day ago

    The term “unalive” is so cringey yet dystopian that I don’t know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      19 hours ago

      It started out as a fun way to make light of Disney refusing to allow the word “Kill” to show up in the cartoon adaptation of Ultimate Spider-Man, now when I hear it in a youtube true crime video I want to game end myself.

      • baltakatei@sopuli.xyz
        18·
        1 day ago

        I’ve got a list of backups:

        • cooked
        • spaced (see The Expanse)
        • inhumed (as opposed to exhumed as one might do in removing a corpse from a grave; see Terry Pratchett’s Discworld’s Assassins Guild lingo)
        • processed (as one does to food using a food processor)
        • isekai’d (for the weaboos)
        • truck-kun’d
        • terminated (for when the Terminator movies become popular again)
        • old yeller’d
        • returned to sender (until the postal system collapses)
        • X trimester aborted
        • Peter Pan’d (as in, thrown off a cliff and expected to fly)
        • Mufasa’d (or any notable fictional character whose death was a major plot point)
    • wagesj45@fedia.io
      321·
      1 day ago

      I wouldn’t worry about that one too much. Death has a ton of euphemisms to soften the concept; “passing away”, “transitioning”, “going home”, etc and so on and whatnot.