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Resist the Bullies Occupying Your Communities (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

What does PlayStation 4 have to do with this? Am I getting old?

Is this BoneAppleTea?

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only reading that is making sense to me is shorthand for "pays for", but I've never seen that slang in the wild so I have no idea

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Speech to text system is my guess. I don't know if more people are using it or what but it never used to be this common.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I assume it's shorthand for "pays for"

My understanding is most shorthand/euphemisms nowadays seem to originate from tiktok's strict and sometimes inscrutable censorship rules. Maybe this is one of them?

Edit: apparently this was a case of text-to-speech gone away. I prefer my head cannon of tiktok trying to censor conversations about anyone who "pays for" an elicit service.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I figured it was just bad text to speech, and OP just didn't go back to proofread.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

frfr its kind of staying in because it quadruples engagement. i like that tiktok headcannon