I have most definitely heard people using those words in offline communications or other situations where censorship/algorithms aren't a thing.
Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
Is there actually any proof that people get banned over those words? I see / hear kill, killed, dead, etc all the time in forums and YouTube videos, and I've never once seen any of those taken down over it.
YouTube will demonetise the videos, effectively banning these words from channels which rely on YT for income, the rules are also weird and change constantly.
We all understand why these annoying terms are used
No we don't. All you are doing is validating the idiocy by moving it to platforms where it doesn't exist. Most of these claimed censorship rules don't even fucking exist at all. People don't get posts pulled just for saying "murder" anywhere on the Internet. They get content strikes and then think it's from a single word because they are fucking idiots. And now the lexicon has become a meme - a participation marker for "content creators."
No, it's not a linguistic implosion but it's still extremely fucking stupid brainrot.
Language changes and it doesn't matter if you like it or not. Complaining about it is just "old man yells at cloud".
Censorship can change the language though. Kids will grow up with these words in their vocabulary, and they will be added to the dictionary eventually, just because of censorship. Mark my mouthies.
Personally I loath the Anglo Saxon habit of making ever more words taboo. It just leads to people circumventing the taboo words with alternate phrases and once those get too popular, they risk becoming taboo as well. Another problem is that what should be normal innocent phrases have become innuendo. It's very easy for a foreigner to make a direct translation to English and what comes out is unintended sexual innuendo or something perceived as a veiled threat.
I'm not going to complain about the absurd censorship it in the youtube comments though, instead I simply don't comment.
I think you're spending way too much time on tumblr if you think this is an unpopular opinion
I don't think fretting over micro plastics does any kind of good whatsoever. Unless you're a university scientist facing a funding deadline for a micro plastic study. The average Joe doesn't have high powered micro scopes with a degree in biology
IMO micro plastics is the latest socieital "Boogie man".
IMO micro plastics is the latest socieital “Boogie man”.
Yeah just like global warming right?
The WEF abandoned that term because every time winter came around, people's fear of global warming dropped significantly.
That's exactly what someone composed of 10% plastic would say 🤔
Made of plastic, it's fantastic.