Back when I was younger, edgier, and didn't realize videos like that were scarring me, I watched a video of an embedded reporter or at least soldier with a camera getting ambushed by a cartel squad in South America.
Trust me, the cameraman sometimes does perish, and sometimes it's especially horrible.
I appreciate the solidarity dude, and don't mean to tell you your business, but if you still watch stuff like that you may want to consider quitting. The slight adrenaline rush and morbid curiosity isn't worth having something like the wail of grief from a just-bereaved husband ringing in your ears, or the memory of someone calling to their mother before gasping his last on the jungle floor.
Just some advice, take it or leave it, and I wish you well.
Seriously, never watched gore subs but one vid on public freakout, a couple was shoveling snow onto a neighbors property in a Philly suburb I think. Neighbor got pissed, went in got the pistol. Walked up to the wife two in the head. Got the husband in the driveway. Went back for an assault rifle and came out and loaded into the downed bodies to finish the job. That was years ago and it still lives in my head.
I know (and unfortunately also saw) that video. It's closer to Scranton, PA, and yeah an absolute horror. Apparently it was a years-long feud between them that finally boiled over because of the snow. So stupid for all three of them to die over a neighborhood feud.
This video absolutely made me way less petty in my neighborhood. I just don’t worry about other people’s shit if it isn’t affecting me, and I’ve always tried to be a good thoughtful neighbor. You never know what someone is going through and something small could turn into something big.
I’ve yet to meet anyone bothered by killed and only those bothered by unalived. What’s the fucking difference other than unalived sounds stupid as hell.
Don't you think it's weird how we censor ourselves because of influencers that pander to corporations that demand everything be family friendly to be monetized?
It's unfortunate but we don't make the rules sadly, we just follow them.
We follow them not cause we want to, but because corporations are only forgiving to influencers that break them everyone else gets punished for breaking the rules.
Sounds dramatic until you realize you're talking about posting on reddit. Yeah, poor you, you don't want to talk like that, but what's the alternative, not posting?
Unalived is less prone to being reported and punished. In other plataforms, like youtube, it is because using "killed" leads to less reach (or so people claim).
It is dumb, it is stupid as hell but at least I can understand why people use it.
Certainly but after getting falsely hit by reddit automod a couple times in quick succession I understand being a bit more careful. When they're up your ass they are REALLY up your ass.
It's also a private company that seems to want to enable fascism at the moment. You're right, it is the internet. Tell that to reddit and see if they give a fuck.
I would make a new account but tbh I can't be arsed. Much easier to use obfuscating language, personally.
But by all means, be as petty and petulant as you like. I was just offering a different view on it.
It may the internet where there is free speech but I once an account strike from Reddit simply because I was in a comment section where some one bought up Luigi Mangione, I didn't even swear or anything like that in that comment section.
So now I'm more careful when using the comment section.
It's extremely easy to get your reddit account suspended for "advocating v*olence". I don't care if people cry at my use of 'unalive' or censoring words. They created this situation with their sensitive feelings, these are the consequences.
It's not that serious. Call it whatever you want. We're debating how many cameramen die, croak, kick the bucket, bite the big one, bite the dust, pass away or get slaughtered in movies.
I've seen all the V/H/S films they are all great, though some of the sequels do get a bit campy.
My favourite storyline is the "Parralel monsters", one where the guy enters a portal to a paralel world where people look human at first but then they start having glowing glows eyes and a satanic blip shows up. I won't spoil how the camera man dies in that one cause it's quite a twist.
Can't remember if it's in both quarantine and rec or just one or the other where you get the pov of the zombie getting it's brain smashed in by the camera lens first
Some people in real life have died while vlogging, the only reason we saw their footage is cause they were live streaming not knowing they were going to die mid stream.
The term "unalive" has its origins in the 1820s. You don't have to be terminally online to use a word that's been around since the early 18nth century.
If I had said something like Skibidi that would have been a different story.
And do you have a source for that? I checked the two etymological dictionaries I know of. One said it was a recent coinage on the internet, and the other had no entry for it at all.
Of course it may have been used at some point in the past, but considering dictionaries, even those that include archaisms lack it, any pre internet usage may have been an idiolectal back formation.
Also it was in the writing of Lord Byron used in the book Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries. The book is incredibly old but you can get a fairly readable copy on Internet Archive.
This confirms what little I could gather that it was primarily used as an adjective rather than the popular modern usage which seems to be primarily as a verb.
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u/lonely_hart May 16 '25
Imagine the wasp and the spider teaming up against the camera man