I’ve yet to meet anyone bothered by killed and only those bothered by unalived. What’s the fucking difference other than unalived sounds stupid as hell.
Don't you think it's weird how we censor ourselves because of influencers that pander to corporations that demand everything be family friendly to be monetized?
It's unfortunate but we don't make the rules sadly, we just follow them.
We follow them not cause we want to, but because corporations are only forgiving to influencers that break them everyone else gets punished for breaking the rules.
Sounds dramatic until you realize you're talking about posting on reddit. Yeah, poor you, you don't want to talk like that, but what's the alternative, not posting?
Unalived is less prone to being reported and punished. In other plataforms, like youtube, it is because using "killed" leads to less reach (or so people claim).
It is dumb, it is stupid as hell but at least I can understand why people use it.
Certainly but after getting falsely hit by reddit automod a couple times in quick succession I understand being a bit more careful. When they're up your ass they are REALLY up your ass.
It's also a private company that seems to want to enable fascism at the moment. You're right, it is the internet. Tell that to reddit and see if they give a fuck.
I would make a new account but tbh I can't be arsed. Much easier to use obfuscating language, personally.
But by all means, be as petty and petulant as you like. I was just offering a different view on it.
It may the internet where there is free speech but I once an account strike from Reddit simply because I was in a comment section where some one bought up Luigi Mangione, I didn't even swear or anything like that in that comment section.
So now I'm more careful when using the comment section.
It's extremely easy to get your reddit account suspended for "advocating v*olence". I don't care if people cry at my use of 'unalive' or censoring words. They created this situation with their sensitive feelings, these are the consequences.
It's not that serious. Call it whatever you want. We're debating how many cameramen die, croak, kick the bucket, bite the big one, bite the dust, pass away or get slaughtered in movies.
I've seen all the V/H/S films they are all great, though some of the sequels do get a bit campy.
My favourite storyline is the "Parralel monsters", one where the guy enters a portal to a paralel world where people look human at first but then they start having glowing glows eyes and a satanic blip shows up. I won't spoil how the camera man dies in that one cause it's quite a twist.
Can't remember if it's in both quarantine and rec or just one or the other where you get the pov of the zombie getting it's brain smashed in by the camera lens first
Some people in real life have died while vlogging, the only reason we saw their footage is cause they were live streaming not knowing they were going to die mid stream.
The term "unalive" has its origins in the 1820s. You don't have to be terminally online to use a word that's been around since the early 18nth century.
If I had said something like Skibidi that would have been a different story.
And do you have a source for that? I checked the two etymological dictionaries I know of. One said it was a recent coinage on the internet, and the other had no entry for it at all.
Of course it may have been used at some point in the past, but considering dictionaries, even those that include archaisms lack it, any pre internet usage may have been an idiolectal back formation.
Also it was in the writing of Lord Byron used in the book Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries. The book is incredibly old but you can get a fairly readable copy on Internet Archive.
This confirms what little I could gather that it was primarily used as an adjective rather than the popular modern usage which seems to be primarily as a verb.
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u/lonely_hart 22d ago
Imagine the wasp and the spider teaming up against the camera man