• azulavoir@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      It’s literal newspeak, invented so that messages about people’s deaths (esp. suicides) can sneak through the censors of video social media (TikTok and YouTube mainly)

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      7 months ago

      No, it’s common parlance that attempts to avoid previous words associated with stigma.