Boomer Vic Vople kept getting kicked off social media for sharing his self-described ‘based’ political/fitness views. TikTok, Instagram and even Facebook were all digital dead zones for the 48-year-old retail worker and avowed social media influencer.”
All that changed when Volpe learned about ‘Algospeak’ from an expert on social media— his 14-year-old niece.
She explained to the opinionated but voiceless boomer that Algospeak is an Internet sublanguage that games social media censorship algorithms.
“She told me it’s a term for words or phrases that stop your content from being censored by the bots and content moderation systems the man has set up to quell dissent,” he tells GWU! from his viral video production studio/laundry room. “It was created over time by social media users as a kind of code.”
Vople points to his pervious Facebook posts decrying MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying) as state sanctioned suicide. “That rotten Zionist Zuckerburg pulled the plug on anything I said about that, but now I call MAID ‘government room service to unalive people,’ my Likes are way up!”
Algospeak uses letter or word substitution and clever turn of phrases to confuse and evade bots designed to remove content that platforms don’t want on them.
Common examples of Algospeak include:
Unalive: Used to describe death or suicide.
Accountant: Sex worker or Only Fans creator. (Shake that money maker!)
Spicy Eggplant: Vibrator.
P⭐️: The letter P and the star emoji join in a perfect union to represent the term “porn star.”
Leg Booty: Describing the LGBTQ community.
BLT+ Community: Describing the LGBTQ community with mockery.
Seggs/Seggsytime: Sex
@nal: Anal, sex.
SA: Sexual assault.
Corn emoji: Takes the place of ‘porn’, not to be confused with Corn Porn, ouch!
Sunflower emoji: Symbol for Ukraine. Is that still a thing?
Panini/Panorama/Panda Express: Euphemism for the word pandemic to work around algorithms removing posts that might wake people up to the scam it has now been proven to be.
Dance party/Dinner party: A euphemism for anti-vaccine Facebook groups. (GWU! Loves a good Dance party!—ed)
Swimmers: People stupid enough to get vaccinated.
Fully Waxinated: Vaccinated people stupid enough to keep getting vaccinated.
Cornucopia: Homophobia.
Nip nops: Nipples.
Yt: White people.
Saltines: More white people. Recently modified since Twitch banned a leftwing creator for using the word “cracker.”
Ouid: Weed.
Le dollar bean: Lesbian (text-to-speech pronunciation of Le$bian, the precursor to “le dollar bean.”)
Opposite of love: Instead of saying “hate.”
Bink in lio: Many variations on this exist as a stand in for “link in bio,” as platform such as Instagram and TikTok prefer to keep users there rather than navigating to kick ass sites like GWU!
Social Media Speak
Critics of Algospeak argue that the creation of misspelled and weird codes as substitutes for language due to corporate interference with free speech is a perversion of language itself. They also say it’s dumb.
Volpe boasts that since switching the language he uses on social media to Algospeak his followers have doubled—into nearly the hundreds. “Don’t forget to tell your readers to “blink in lio,” brags the boomer.
(As of press time Volpe had not figured out how to put his link in bio.)
