I always hated it when people substituted suicide or killed with words like "unalived", "pew pew" (to describe being shot) or, (eugh) "sewer slide". I know most people did it cause they make money on Youtube and the almighty algorithm will demonetize their videos if they ever utter those naughty words, but even then I would see people say those words outside of Youtube or Tiktok and it just looked damn silly. Like, why do you need to self censor yourself when having a normal conversation? You're not being shadow banned on some random ass website.


After thinking on it some more, it then hit me on why these kinds of words annoy me; it sounds like how someone would talk to a child on a very sensitive subject that they don't fully grasp yet, which in turn kinda downplays the subject itself. The family dog that suddenly vanished one day? "Oh, Fido just went to live at a farm upstate!" You would speak like this to a child who is too young to understand the concept of death, not towards grown ass adults on the internet who fully know what dying means. I understand people have done that kind of talk before with euphemisms like "no longer with us", "they're gone now", or "they offed themselves", but in those cases, it's still clear what the speaker means without downplaying what the victim went through. The current trend of words like unalived (in combination with making money off the content on Youtube) downplays what happened and for some people, it can look quite disrespectful.


If something ever happened to me, I would want people to say it like it is rather than to dress it down with 1984 styled censorship. Let people understand the truth of what happened.


Then again, I'm just an old man yelling at the clouds at this point. lel.