Joe Biden unalived Tiktok, to use Tiktok slang.
A lot of the fake words influencers use to avoid getting "demonetized" are seeping into everyday language thanks to their mentally ill viewers. The amount of self-censorship these days is beyond anything I've ever witnessed.
I don't usually go in for conspiracies but I think it's actually a purposeful attempt by TikTok to
1) Dumb down American literacy / grasp of English. A dumber, and less well read enemy is an easier enemy to conquer (not by military force, but by outpacing in areas such as education and overall intelligence)
2) Subtly pump the ideas of self censorship (and thus, the idea that wider social censorship is a net positive) into the collective unconscious of Gen Z.
China is built around nothing else if censorship, why not import their way of thinking here by placing it in the subconscious of American youth? And it's had an effect that this social self censorship has escaped beyond the terminally online and has begun to enter the American dialog.
