The monetization of cowardice: why kids say "sewer slide" instead of "suicide"

Unalive is what I see all the time now.

Very Orwellian. We all serve at the arbitrary pleasure of the AI. IMO its a small taste of what's coming.

Also, I guess we're all cockneys now.

 

There are many slang terms for arse in England.

 

I've heard people say fredophile and grape instead pedophile and rape in youtube videos.

I've never heard it in person. I don't really connected it to cowardice or see it as a big issue. It's silly and I place the blame on Youtube, not the content creators.

Your concern with kids development and understanding of the words? That's a parenting problem. Youtube is not a place for kids to live in, no policy or guidelines will fix that.

 

“Unalive” drives me nuts. Especially when I hear people say it outside of content creators.

 

Getting old sucks…..but there are some benefits. I can say whatever the F I want, and I really don’t care what anyone thinks. I can also confidently make fun of the morons who change our language in order to not offend anyone (ironically, their efforts ARE offensive to certain people. This world is F’d up, but oh well…..

 

AKA Political Correctness with a new wrapper and manufacturer

I would also add that from the Content Creator's perspective . . .. its their job
How often do we curse and swear on your job?
Hopefully not often .. . same thing
There are restricted words in every work environment.

Rocket River

 

Everything you are discussing is incredibly situational. There can definitely be alternatives, what exactly depends on the age of the kids, and what you personally have access to with ones location and financial standing.

I'd argue it's the opposite. I'm far more concerned with the cost of opting children in to social media.

Who is we, and why do parents need a solution offered to them?

This is again incredibly situational, our last neighborhood we lived in a culdesac that had 10 kids on the street every afternoon. In our experience the kids overall had fun, and while there wasn't any major problems, some of the kids behavior wasn't an influence I wanted on our kids long term. We moved to an area that a bit more socially closed off, and while that sucks, the kids my kids do interact with now seem better adjusted which is really nice.

Our library is well funded, we have 3 within 10 minute drives, great playgrounds, bike and skateparks, publicly accessible rivers, lakes, trails.

On sports, my kids are in the YMCA and city rec leagues, I'd hardily call it industrialized or revenue focused, these programs are non profits with volunteers, the price comes out to like 10 bucks per hour of practice/games which isn't bad.

Kids still have to build social skills within school, they still have friends, not every rec league are children being socially micromanaged, most have too little time to focus on anything like that.

If parents are negatively influencing their kids social skills that's again a parent problem.

There are some things you brought up that I can understand, some I agree with, but by in large a lot of this seems overly dramatic, and just how your personally interpreting things instead of actualization of any reality I've personally faced with my kids, as for the nation as a whole, thats too big of a picture for me to cover.

 

Someone didn't grow up watching movies on BET and UPN.

This is the same thing. Someone is trying to show content laden with adult ideas on a platform trying to claim to ad purchasers that they are PG adjacent.

The kids understand the real words, just like when we were kids we knew what mother flippin' and mother lovin' meant. They might want to censor themselves around older family members though.

 

Suicide is such a terrible thing for kids to be contemplating. It makes me uncomfortable knowing that kids are even discussing it in jest.

 

It pisses me off. I will never use those words. Pew pew and unalive. Bunch of r****ds

 

Euphemisms are a way to make it seem like you care or you are addressing something
without actually caring or addressing

The Idea was we are talking over people or bypassing their sensabilities by using GRAPE instead of RAPE
Is IMO just dumb. It always has been. In these situations were everyone knows the Euphemism . . .what's the point of it?
(Frog legs taste just like chicken . . . .well why don't i just eat chicken?)
To an extent it encourages deception and language manipulation
(I never said I was going to do that . . .I said I can do it .. .never said I would!!!!)
Almost like everything becomes Legalese - The ability to shape and change language is POWERFUL
probably the biggest power the Elites exercise
DOUBLE PLUS GOOD

Modern Kids are a bit handicapped by the convenience of everything.
Gen X talks about making our own dinners and coming home to empty houses
Well now Those two things are not as hazardous and to some even encourages
Microwaves and Internal cameras that you can actually talk to the kids through
the Adult doesn't really NEED to be there for basic needs and observation to happen
BUT
The lack of true interaction will be a problem . . and soon

Rocket River

 

Reminds me how I'd cringe when my grandmother would refer to the coloreds and the latins. But now I'm the old person with language that makes teenagers cringe. And the stuff they say makes me want to wash their mouths out with soap.

I love the irony that your post got censored.

 

The reason your post got auto censored is the same reason people end up saying "pew pew" and "unalive". Eventually you get a group of Karens who throw a big enough temper tantrum and **** on the walls enough to get normal people to act to pacify them in the hopes those weirdos will just go away.

Pacification seems like the simplest solution, but unfortunately it is never long before the Karens are back hyperventilating about something else and demanding everyone do as they say because the whole shtick is really just a power play for pathetic people.

It is what it is.

 

Why do all the guys on clutchfans spell
mar1juana with a 1? … what weirdos