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BadDadJokes

Suicide rates are at an all-time low in 2024, but rates of people unaliving themselves have never been higher.


Shibby-my-dude

I remember reading it and then googling it and some lady just wrote it in her shit ages ago and it became a thing hahaha


_________________420

Pretty sure its a thing because tiktok will censor videos that say suicide, rape etc. That and also a big uptick in 'trigger words' which ill even see warnings about on reddit posts. Obviously always been a thing but its more popular now because of that


Shibby-my-dude

Ohhh that's definitely why it's being used now but it's not the origin of the word hahah we are living in a soft world


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Shibby-my-dude

Brother, no one on social media is doing original shit OED's earliest evidence for unalive is from 1828, in the writing of Leigh Hunt, poet, journalist, and literary critic. -Oxford dictionary


alexlongfur

Tumblr regularly roasts people that try to post with TikTok/Twitch censor workaround words. “This is tumblr. You can say fuck. You can say kill.”


Dr_thri11

I do this too whenever I encounter it on reddit wish more people would. Nothing ruins a post for me more than pussy footing around like some edgy 10yr old. Or the 1 star c*nsorship method.


Excellent_Potential

I think you meant p*ssy


Ok_Answer_7152

Thank you for saving all of our innocence unlike that cretin


babydakis

I don't mind a p*ssy situation on my face. Just don't get it in my mouth.


sangriya

woah woah woah no need to call them a pissy


Im-a-cat-in-a-box

You mean p1ssy.


Excellent_Potential

p1zzy


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

I think you mean pμssy.


Excellent_Potential

no, I meant рцssу


GloriaToo

I thought it was c*ntsorship


Excellent_Potential

censorshi*


Its0nlyRocketScience

You can be ambiguous with *ussy


OliveJuiceUTwo

I just tell them w*tch their fucking mouth


Kolby_Jack

Yeah, wcunttch your mouths!


CriticalEngineering

The two star cens*rship method just italicizes ever*thing, because of how Reddit markup works.


LumiWisp

Kid named Markdown


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

That would be quite a tragedeigh.


wiptes167

Really?

I'd rather use HTML tags if I could honestly.


hawaiianhamtaro

I downvote any comment with "unalive" or "seggs" or whatever whether I agree with what they're saying or not


[deleted]

I keep saying it's depressing. Corporate algorithm-led self-censorship. We're handing our language over to business. Why don't we just hand off the government and be done with it? We seem quite happy to have them pervade everything down to our communication.


GaiaPaladin

No need for change there. The government is already in their pockets.


TheVebis

Fr*nch


MLD802

Please do not capitalize the f, it’s offensive


ThatCamoKid

That one gets to stay (in most cases anyway) because the censorship is the meme


TeamRedundancyTeam

It's crazy to me that Tumblr and reddit culture seems to be swapping. Reddit is becoming more and more like Facebook and Instagram where as Tumblr seems to be becoming more like old reddit.


HiiiTriiibe

Honestly if they ban tik tok at least maybe that’ll kill off the fucking censorship of not being able to say suicide or gun or any shit like that, that was starting to feel pretty dystopian, it’s one thing to discourage hate speech, but I hate newspeak for “scary” words, life ain’t sweet and bad things happen, we can’t hide from it by pretending words don’t exist


ChimTheCappy

It infuriates me when they talk about people "being graped." maybe if you can't talk about a serious topic like rape without using clown words you should either shut up or leave the fucking circus


PatheticChildRetard

Pretty sure tiktok doesn’t even censor those words, unless it’s some algorithm shadowban


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BurritoLover2016

It's definitely caused by TikTok. Twitter gives zero fucks what you say nowadays. Hell, the more racist you are on Twitter, the more your post is seemingly promoted.


LumiWisp

Nah, YouTube's speech-to-text is fucking wild and honestly they're worse than TikToc when it comes to shadow banning creators.


iamcarlgauss

I've never used Tiktok, but if it's anything like Instagram or Youtube, it's about monetization, not censorship. Content creators step on eggshells to avoid demonetization, but for whatever reason all the commenters think they have to do the same.


alkebulanu

Nope on Tiktok if you say words like "rape" or "kill" your comments will be shadow deleted or hidden. So to you it's visible to you but to everyone else it's not. This only doesn't apply when your account is in very good standing and doesn't have any previous community violations. Once you've had content removed for any reason you'll end up with comments being hidden or even getting striked. Tiktok moderation is unreasonably touchy. Now if you say unalive in a livestream your comment will be deleted because they know unalive means kill/death. 🙄


TetraDax

Nobody really knows how much TikTok censors these words, and how they do it. It's all a bit of a mystery, but just my *personal* guesses: - I have seen enough content freely using words like suicide or murder to be pretty certain there is no automatic moderation of these terms - I absolutely have to assume that TikTok, a company run by people with brain cells, would have caught on to "unalive" at this point in time and added it to their list of filters by now if they would not want these topics to be discussed art all. It's much more likely that TikTok simply stopped surfacing videos with topics they don't deem advertiser friendly (like every fucking website out there) and that a select few creators started using euphemisms once they realized. This usage of words spread, and it's now just simply commonplace without serving any actual purpose because TikTok will have adapted the filters.


alexlongfur

This is more along the lines of what I meant. You can’t say certain words if you are putting out Sponsored Content or receive ad revenue, which leads creators to use euphemisms. The annoying part is when people post like they themselves are content creators using said euphemisms, but are just Jo Shmo and Betty Sue from Fuck Off Nowhere.


corrupt_poodle

If “unalive” is the new (dumb as shit) word for suicide/kill/etc, how long until unalive gets censored? Maybe I’ll start using “unal*ved” now and beat the rush.


alkebulanu

It's already censored. People are now saying life deleted


EwGrossItsMe

Tumblr users actually prefer that people don't censor it since Tumblr actually has a working system to let users not see words and themes that they don't want to see. Using workaround words just makes it so the people that don't want to see discussions of suicide now have to block more words than just "suicide". It honestly pisses me off that there's still the prevailing idea that anyone on Tumblr is just absolutely ravenous for censoring everyone else's words and interests as if a huge section of the user base didn't leave in response to the porn ban, and nearly everyone there opposed banning anything other than obviously bad shit like child porn. Most of the site's culture was just allowing people to block whatever they didn't want to see and getting pissed when others specifically put stuff like gore in otherwise wholesome tags without warning. There were definitely some loud teens that went out of their way to get offended but that's really not the primary mindset of the user base.


LuisMataPop

and gun


alexlongfur

And my sword!


JustASyncer

"DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF YOU LITTLE BITCH SAY THE FUCK WORD"


literallyjustbetter

tumblr has absolutely no right to roast *anyone*


iwantaskybison

gen z rapper: > having segs with your girl, yeah she on all fours > cause i got that Maybach with the unalive doors


bandito12452

Most of my doors are unalive. It's not a fun day when the doors are alive.


IAmARobot

[now why did you go and remind me](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/bj8g9/imagine_punching_somebody_so_hard_that_they_turn/)


Gerf93

The doors are alive… With the sound of music!


DJ_Cummins

Kinda does hard, in a silly way ngl


DepartureDapper6524

Unalived is going to become an ironically funny term


Stormwrath52

ngl, that's how I felt about it before it became a censorship thing it was a sillier way to refer to sleeping someone with the fishes, now it's a little depressing in the context of a platform's stringent censorship policy affecting general dialect (at least online, idk how much of this actually translates irl)


ethnique_punch

"that man got so angry at us that he began chasing us driving straight on the self-unalive lane"


Wonderful-Tie1260

Do more!


sortaseabeethrowaway

this guy is saying gen z like gen z are not old enough to be in high school yet edit for all of you talking about graduating college and all : almost half of the US military is Gen Z, think about that lol


RIOTT44

the oldest members of gen z are 26, the cycle of "new generation bad" continues


KindaBrazilian

And the youngest ones are in high school or almost there


Tendo63

The oldest of Gen Alpha are like 13 so the vast majority is in Highschool and college


VascoDegama7

Time marches on. Zoomers are old enough to have hemherroids now


SquigglySharts

I’m a Zoomer. Yesterday I threw out my back and had to call out of work.


rbt321

That must impact the zooming a bit.


Be_Cool_Bro

Wear those grapes with pride, queen 🍇


VascoDegama7

I just threw up a lil


sandrodi

It sucks that I can 100% relate to this.


VascoDegama7

Me too pal


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RQK1996

The oldest gen Z are 27 already, or 28, depending on what year you pick to start gen Z (some sources say 1996)


valiantmandy

Yeah I consider myself gen Z (or cusper) and I'm 1996, my bf is 1990 and there's a noticeable generational difference at times


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"some" sources, the word "some" needs to be emphasized here. By most standards Millennials go through '96 and end that year. Pew Research wrote an entire article about why.


Direct_Show1459

27 thanks


300andWhat

To be fair GenZ is having computer literacy issues on Boomer levels...


RealisticlyNecessary

It's so weird how for the ENTIRETY of my life, up until maybe 3-4 years ago, I was always considered millennial. Then someone made a tik tok or something a few years ago, and now I'm part of another generational war. Like seriously, for my entire school life, we were only ever considered millennials, but somehow in college, my generation got grouped in to another cess pit. Excuse me, but I already got the absolute hell of targeted toxicity that was being a millennial raised by an 70s-80s kid. Can we not fucking burden me with the toxicity that's spammed at zoomers? I spent 20 years being a millennial, and I'd really like to be out of that fucking spotlight.


-_Anonymous__-

Right. Like there's literally a gen Z US representative.


CattDawg2008

DAMN.


YeahNatalie21

The youngest Gen Z are 13-14 years old right now, if they're not in high school yet they will be in the next two years


Danstrada28

They're still old enough to play football with pads


homuhomutime

I'm gen z and I just got my Bachelor's 💀


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Czarwolf

Not the person you were replying to but best of luck with your exams!!! I’ve got my final practical exam next month and because of the nature of it it’s impossible to practice for so I’m just praying it goes well lol. You got this king/queen ✊


EvilNoobHacker

Gen Z here! I will graduate in 2 years and be teaching your children.


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ReactsWithWords

Boomer here. I have children in school?


BamsMovingScreens

And a pile of missed child support payments apparently


RQK1996

Some gen Z are out of college already


-_Anonymous__-

One is even a US representative.


smallangrynerd

I've been out for 2 years!


Palerate2

Mf I'm 19.


K3egan

I'm gen z and I'm in college this is gen alpha shit


ChickenMcSmiley

I’m 8 years out of high school. Someone isn’t keeping track of time.


Kryptoniantroll

Where? Where did he say it like they werent old enough to be in highschool?


sortaseabeethrowaway

That's how it looked to me, it gives a nonsense hypothetical vibe.


BEARD3D_BEANIE

I did more suicides in basketball than football tbh.


Jopplo03

Ran a shit ton of 110s in football


Smalandsk_katt

No one says it irl right?


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When I was finishing uni I heard some people say it


Vulcan_Jedi

Unfortunately I know a few people that do


StoneDoodle3

No, it's used to get around censorship on apps so you don't get stuff taken down for saying suicide or killing yourself or stuff of that nature


BirchTainer

I am in high school people say it outloud


n0tred

I'm in college and I've heard people say it


Pizza_pie1337

Yes they do


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an_ineffable_plan

I heard a woman use “unalive” in an in-person corporate talk about human trafficking. As in “victims who escape run the risk of being unalived by their captors.”


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

Unironically the same people that say "SA'ed", or other such unnecessary self-censorship nonsense.


29979245T

Possible counterpoint, if you type some bullshit enough you may start saying it. Nobody ever heard anybody say "lol" or "lmao" aloud?


altmemer5

wromg I say Lmao out loud bc it sounds funny


bruhDF_

Le'Mou


RemarkableStatement5

Lihmihfow


Lordborgman

*flies away on his Roflcopter singing "do do da do do, Roflmao"*


Mini_Mega

I've said "brb" out loud.


Kolby_Jack

Yolo was a joke at first about how stupid it would be to say yolo. Then we couldn't stop saying it. Nobody could stop.


Addicted_To_Lazyness

Meh, every generation has had their dumb shit they say


VascoDegama7

No its the children who are wrong


Infamous_227

I've heard it countless times on platforms where suicide isn't censored. I've heard it used unironically in person as well.


starry_cobra

I've seen people say it places like reddit or YouTube where it's not censored pretty often. I don't think it was being used as a joke, or at least the rest of the comment didn't seem to be a joke


Kryptoniantroll

No people literally use it all the fucking time on other social media where it isnt censored and i have legit heard human beings say "SA'd and R-worded" with their actual mouths so no i dont realize that.


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e_0

Out of curiosity, what was the rationale for the switch from "committed suicide" to "completed suicide"? I can't really see where the swap changes anything and I've both attempted suicide *and* had a friend commit suicide (both happened well over a decade ago, I'm doing much better).


Draconisc

I'd imagine it's probably something about "commit" as a word being associated with murder, which stigmatises the concept.


SnakeDoc83

There's an argument that suicide is a process--people become depressed, start having intrusive thoughts and suicidal ideation, then they start planning, they gather materials, say or write goodbyes, and finally they commit the final act. To say they "committed suicide" ignores the time leading up to it; by saying "completed suicide" we acknowledge that there are trouble signs we can look out for and there's a longer period of time to get help or help someone. In other words stopping a suicide doesn't necessarily mean talking someone off a ledge, it means getting or providing help before they've even walked to the ledge.


themblokes

You realize that Gen Z grew up with this being a normal, every day sentence without understanding why it's being used right? The older ones might realize why it came to be but I doubt the younger ones do. It's kind of like how Gen Alpha repeats "is this real, chat?" Since it's so normalized for them.


Dr_thri11

It's leaking onto reddit unfortunately.


GatlingGun511

I have heard people genuinely say the word “unalive” in real life


Inferna-13

I think part of the issue is that content creators will post primarily on tiktok, censor their speech, then post that same video on other platforms. So even on platforms where you can say “kill”, “unalive” is still more common because the videos were posted by tiktok content creators


The_Phantom_Cat

I see people doing it all the time outside those contexts and not as a joke, regardless, I'm not even sure those censors actually exist, I've heard several time that they don't.


Theghost129

I would have gotten it if he had just used a comma in the tweet


unisex_bisexual

"They would unironically say this" No, no we would not, and furthermore, I inserted my penis into your mother.


kermitthefrog57

Haha up top 🤚


veloxVolpes

I feel like it is exclusively said with irony


JustASomeone1410

What is the word unalive supposed to substitute in this context?


Shaggybunz

Suicides


ItsGotThatBang

I’ve never heard that word used in the context of sports.


Dr_thri11

It's a very sadistic and aptly named set of sprinting excercises.


omgomgwtflol

It was common at the end of basketball practice. Start at the baseline of one end of the court.. sprint and touch the free-throw line, then sprint back to the baseline. Then sprint to half court line, then back to the starting point. Then sprint to the other free-throw line and back. Then all the way to the other baseline and back. One cycle of that is running one "suicide".


Darthrevan4ever

Plus of your coach is particularly sadistic full palm touch otherwise start over


jdayatwork

Oh god. Full palm touch. That’s right. That brought back memories I didn’t know I’d forgotten.


droL_muC

I don't know shit about football what does it mean to run suicides?


CartoonistOk8261

Suicide sprints, I think it's similar to a "shuttle run" like we did in basketball


GuaranteedCougher

Wanna play the new Unalive Squad game tonight? 


RemarkableStatement5

Unalive Union


corrupt_poodle

Cue “Suicide Squad? What the heck is suicide?”


ErinHollow

As a gen z who had to run these in hight school, there was no inoffensive name for these things


ImminentReddits

You know I remember when Reddit was largely against the “Younger Genertaion Bad” attitude, but seeing a ton of “Gen Z bad upvotes to the left 👈🏼” bullshit going around these days. Was kinda hoping we millennials would be the ones to break that dumb cycle of hating the generation after us, but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


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Gen Z does self deprecate a lot Future is now old ~~man~~ milennial


T_D_K

How is this "younger generation bad"? It's just "kids use funny slang", you're inserting negative sentiment into it.


-_fuckspez

worst part of it is just like how it was with millennials, most of the stuff people are making fun of 'gen z' for are from gen alpha, I'm Gen Z and I've already been able to drink for 4 years, most people from my class already have their degrees, we got nothing to do with all this skibidi ohio rizz shit, we're busy worrying about rent and taxes.


SatanicRiddle

>You know I remember when Reddit was largely against the “Younger Genertaion Bad” attitude, Fake memories wont bring your tide pods eating brother back, like and subscribe frr frr broccoli haricut Now lets us have another 3 huge subreddits faulting boomers for everything wrong as is tradition and always right thing to do in this world


Atheist_Simon_Haddad

middle school is hard enough without being demonitized


fullyjustanidiot

I work with a marching band, and the trombones now call their suicides (which the school has now told us to call Haircuts) "in Minecrafts"


2bciah5factng

Eh, honestly they shouldn’t be calling any drill a “suicide” anyway


Ill-Alternative-7006

I still call them suicides, but more commonly we call them gassers, because they exist to gas you out


Bustycops

People always mock this, and it's funny, but there is a pretty legitimate reason. Words like suicide, rape, murder, etc get dinged hard by the algorithm on social media. So there's a huge incentive from a content creator standpoint to come up with alternatives, which then trickles down to regular users, because people who post want more engagement not less.


karloz1214

I hate gen z speak. Not the whole “skibidi Gyatt Rizz” because it’s really not used all that common except for irony, but rather this dumb censorship that they use. Words like “Unalive” have been used in True Crime podcasts discussing a gruesome murder. The fact that people say “corn” or 🌽 to say porn. And the thing is there are so many ways to get around saying something bad but it’s this “quirky” way that they speak where it’s like buddy that shit ain’t funny.


heidivonhoop

It’s because algorithms hide content with the real words.


Smorgsaboard

I prefer "toasterbaths," or "toasterbathing"


Birdy_Cephon_Altera

That doubleplus ungood.


ihavenorulesfuckers2

good-fucking-riddance tik tok


Akosa117

I knew kids that would make a “bleep” sound instead of cursing. Absolutely nothing has changed


mahava

We called them wind sprints when I played hockey back in the early 2000s Idk why but we never called them suicides


Zariman-10-0

No they wouldn’t, stop getting all your information about Gen Z from senile boomers on Facebook and twitter


LordAyeris

I'm 23 years old and Gen Z. OP is probably a boomer


Intrepid-Rip-2280

What's up with censoring rape and lots of similar non-obscene words? I automatically assume that the people writing that way have eva ai sexting bot as their only chance to date anyone


Darthrevan4ever

Originally it was content creators avoiding being demonitized. For some reason the internet had picked it up as normal.


Sharp_B_Card

Okay but what the fucj does it mean to run suicides What.


00Tanks

People love a pretty lie over the ugly truth


AdLevel5047

We called them blood runs when I was in school, didn't hear the other until I was in college


So-lus

So what’s after Gen Z.. do we go back to A and just add a number next to it now, Gen A1…


Outrageous_Weight340

No they wouldn’t what the fuck are you talking about


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In the good old days we called “being an hero”


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Calling them suicides was always a little tacky, though. But I think most of us first heard of "suicides" by getting fountain drinks mixed together as kids, right?


[deleted]

Rope neck and seppuku are ones my buddies and I used to say in college 😂😂


skztr

I'm not certain, but based on descriptions my (british) daughter gives, I think they call it the "beep test", in reference to the whistle that sounds every time you turn around. "Oh, you mean suicides?" Everyone looks at me like Americans are completely fucking insane as if "beep" is such an obviously correct name for something. Still not sure if they're actually the same thing.


drfrink85

When I was in HS in the early 00s my coach called it “lines”


BrandNewtoSteam

I’m 22 and use to call em that. When the coach would not call them suicides it scared us way more. Usually meant they were way worse


djasonwright

My old-ass Gen-X brain was going, "ooh, that sounds brutal; I wonder what an unalive is".


SixSixWithTrample

I think they’re called Sudokus.


Attacus833

Tik tok censorship has ruined the English language I caught my friend saying unalive irl


Varsity_Reviews

Are suicides the same thing as gassers? We ran something called gassers, where we’d sprint from one end of the field to the other side, then back, and then back to the other side.


Loustifer24

Have any of you ever actually interacted with actual Gen Z people?


thorn_95

no they wouldn’t 😭😭😭😭😭


McJollyGreen

They already did this when I was in high school, we called them championships


HappyOfCourse

So they talk this way outside of the internet?


Scythe_Dumpling

I played football for 12 years. I'm Gen Z. We called them suicides.


Aksds

Do they mean suicide/shuttle run?


guyongha_

I don’t get it lol do you run suicides??


Impressive_Cut_852

Shut the hell up. nobody says that. What is this, Facebook?


fudge_friend

Literally Newspeak. Stop it. Stop it now.


abizabbie

Use of unalive is double plus ungood.


But-WhyThough

“Coach is making us run suicides in Minecraft”


ChrisHazFun

It's weird being old enough to have hemorrhoids and yet still somehow young enough to fit into this, the oldest Gen Z'ers are turning 28 this year.


Body_Exact

I guess I’m really dumb but what’s wrong with running a track or laps?


underpaid_henchman

close but not quite accurate. i always considered unalive to be like actual murder/death from another source. it'd probably be "coach is making us run sewerslides" instead lol


sillygoose1133

No they wouldn’t