Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
Ben Percifield
@benpercifield
TikTok creators have gotten into the habit of coming up with substitutes for words that they worry might either affect how their videos get promoted on the site or run afoul of moderation rules.
TikTok’s guidelines
do not list prohibited words, but some things are consistent enough that creators know to avoid them, and many share lists of words that have triggered the system. So they refer to nipples as “nip nops” and sex workers as “accountants.” Sexual assault is simply “S.A.” And when Roe v. Wade was overturned, many started referring
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Mandarin speakers tend to draw vertical representations of time .
What you draw might be relative to your language
Cognitively speaking, sighted people can perceive all colors , regardless of language . It’s just that some languages make an association between a perception and a word.