When did saying "delete" (as in murder) become popular?

[valet]

Please use common sense before posting. Obviously I know delete has been around for years. I seeing alot people use it in replacing the word murder. "Imma delete (as in kill) this ____". I'm hearing it alot now on slang. Did that become popular this year?

 

[Laidbackman]

Because words like kill and murder are banned on you-tube, and you might get a strike.

 

[hood b. goode]

On social media certain usages of words can flag your videos, content, and comments. and you dont want to get flagged / banned

Its not slang, exactly. Its a euphemism

- unalived
- seggs
- etc

 

[Ty Daniels]

My opinion, it is due to the Internet, YouTube in particular.

People were getting demonitized on YouTube for certain words.

Internet "Culture" is starting to "Bleed" into real life.

 

[Marks]

Yeah un-alive is another one that you see a lot thanks to social media/yt flagging shyt if you use words like kill, murder, suicide etc.

 

[Womb Raider]

I believe it got popular at the same time the term “unalive” did.

Didn’t know ppl were using those terms to avoid flags, lol

 

[Kingshango]

Moderation is poor on social media that saying “Murder”, “Death” “Kill” “Rape” etc is potentially bannable.

 

[valet]

What are their companies fearing by saying these words?

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

 

[Theolodius_Black]

Beat me to it

 

[KBtheKey]

Forgot about social media content filters. I thought it was from death note

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Because of filters language has devolved. You've seen how uncreative people are now. In the past people would just use abbreviations or acronyms. Like that's how you get lol or rofl or wtf thats shyt that millennial and Gen X made.

We would write KYS to an obnoxious poster or '/ self' it felt like you figured out a secret language/jargon. If anyone tried to guess what you were saying you'd just say it meant something else.

Unalive, seggs, grape, M*urder etc. Sounds childish and stupid. It's representative of the declining attention span of people and the way social media has annihilated true online communities

 

[Mandarin Duck]

What are their companies fearing by saying these words?

I remember Google getting into some trouble over teens searching "How to commit suicide" and they've made some changes.

Now if you Google search "suicide" the first thing that comes up is the suicide hotline.

I think shyt is designed to find certain keywords because the content that uses those keywords has the potential to tie those companies to the responsibility of promoting those thoughts and ideas(suicide, murder, etc).

But I think it's led to problems because they aren't ran by humans.

If a content creator makes videos about suicide prevention, or wants to talk about suicide in general, I'm not sure what measure are done to separate them from another creator making videos that promotes suicide or violence.

It seems like the result of flagging all content using certain words has inadvertently created internet slang terms.

 

[Problematic Pat]

White liberal woman in charge of YouTube

 

[Sad Bunny]

Kids have iPads at two years old now.

They gotta protect the kids.