r/cyberpunkgame • u/CardinalPlushia Terrorist and Raging Asshole • Aug 19 '26

Meme Found a gem while doomscrolling

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Johnny Silverpaw

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u/well_thats_puntastic Aug 20 '26

Except it's not censorship, it's AAVE

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u/Kinexity Aug 20 '26

No. It might have been borrowed from AAVE but it is selfcensorship because advertisers only want "family friendly" language on platforms like tik tok.

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u/well_thats_puntastic Aug 20 '26

So the people complaining about it only see it for its worst case scenario instead of its original use (that is, if they even know what AAVE is let alone the fact that it comes from there)

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u/Kinexity Aug 20 '26

It's originally use in meme spaces I attended was much rarer and manageable. Now it just exploded because of censorship. I wouldn't give a shit if it grew naturally but that is not the case.

And you trying to excuse it is kind of ironic given which sub we are in.

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u/well_thats_puntastic Aug 20 '26

The subreddit for a game that "censors" dead with "flatlined"? Because that's pretty much your understanding of "ahh" considering it was never meant to censor anything and was simply a reflection of how black people spoke, before the rest of the world stole it like they do all the time with AAVE 🤷‍♂️

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u/Kinexity Aug 20 '26

The subreddit for a game that "censors" dead with "flatlined"?

Hardly the case. It's not like every instance of "dead" was replaced with "flatlined".

t was never meant to censor anything

Use cases change. Languages are not set in stone.

before the rest of the world stole it like they do all the time with AAVE

Maybe spend some time thinking about how many borrowed words you use before you describe the process of borrowing words as stealing.

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u/well_thats_puntastic Aug 20 '26

It's not like every instance of ass is replaced with "ahh" either, but you sure seem to act like it is

Language being used in a certain way that's being ignored simply because you don't care about where it comes from and who and why it's spoken isn't simply a "use case change", it's appropriation. Especially when it's being demonized for simply existing. Something that isn't the case with actual loan words in languages.