Algospeak

Author: Adam Aleksic

Currently reading Chapter 4: Why Everybody Sounds the Same Online

thoughts

• Overuse of algospeak in real life leads to desensitization on important topics
• Frictionless life leads to frictionless thoughts, which stands in the way of introspection and growth
  • Love is hard, which is what makes it worthwhile (Letters to a Young Poet)
• Over-corporatization of America bleeds into our daily lives
• Sanitized outlook of life to quell resistance to corporations and governments

notes

01 how to play linguistic whack-a-mole

• Censorship
  • Bowdlerization
  • Euphemism treadmill
  • Sociolects
  • Politics
• Algospeak

02 sticking out your gyat for the rizzler

• Trends
  • Adoption
• Social class
• Standardization
• Virus analogy
  • Infecting hosts to help trends survive
• Democratization of public access

03 no because what happened to your attention?

• Attention economy
• Hooks
• Algorithms
  • Push content predicted to be engaging
    • Exponential boost