Here, Queer and Mildly Concerned

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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penny-anna

Saw a post the other day that was like 'guys stop complaining about the One Piece tab, as marketing goes it's very unobtrusive'. Do we think Tumblr took that as a challenge or

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Nobody was going in the one piece tab so they had to send out the fucking clown

penny-anna

The clown was so funny honestly it's so badly thought out like

1) no actual indication of what he's advertising so a lot of ppl genuinely had no idea it was part of the One Piece campaign

2) like if they'd gone for the hat guy I think a good number of non-fans would have recognised him but I don't think anyone knows who the fucking clown is

3) he's like. Genuinely creepy & uncomfortable? Again like if they'd put the hat guy down there people might have been like oh cool a little guy on my dash but he's a scary clown who leers at you. Nobody wants the clown.

4) he is blocking part of the UI

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roughstar

It's so hard to come to that conclusion though, like at this point unalive is a part of gen Z culture. It's just using a word, they're not even thinking about talking on TikTok or YouTube anymore, they're just talking. It's a lot like people getting mad over AAVE because it's not grammatically correct and yes it's not, but AAVE is a cultural usage of English, a dialect if you will. They use it because their friends and family use it, everyone talks that way. Nobody thinks about grammar when speaking AAVE. It's actually kind of offensive if you try to correct someone. It's like that with unalive too. It's a clashing of culture, we don't understand it because we see it as it was formed, a response to a shitty half ass language filter, not as it is used, which is just another word for kill, death, or died. I really think this one is just not a big deal enough to fight. I think that teacher in the first part, while I agree with the sentiment and find the story funny, it's also in my opinion not about maturity but just a culture thing.

evelynstarshine

From working with children, the way kids who use unalive react when they hear someone say kill or suicide, it's not just slang or comparable to minoritised dialects, it's self-censorship, active and deliberate with fear of consequences built into it.

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Also not to derail but AAVE does in fact have grammar.

theywontletmebeprincipal

I think it’s worth saying too that there are TONS of other euphemisms for death/murder/suicide/etc that evolved naturally over time, feel normal in conversation, n are used often in writing

passed away. deceased. kicked it. bit the dust. offed. done in. six feet under. I can keep going all day

yes, some of these sayings are (when used in conversation)(when used in writing it’s to convey a tone. different rules n all) also self censorship - but they’re self censorship for the sake of not being crass, or for the sake of not technically admitting to a murder, and so on. but until “unalive”, we haven’t seen self censorship for profit. it isn’t a choice to use “unalive” if you want to be seen on half the sites online n that’s the issue ultimately, not the word itself

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I'm not a psychology researcher, but my guess would be that the nature of it being a time-limited puzzle game where you have to juggle multiple factors means that your short-term memory gets filled and the traumatic images are "dumped" in favor of remembering how many times to rotate the L piece. "As soon as possible" is probably because the sooner you do it, the less likely it is to become part of your long-term memory.

If that is true, then other time-limited activities where you have to remember and plan in a tight time frame may serve a similar purpose.

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Tetris used to prevent post-traumatic stress symptoms | University of Oxford
A single dose psychological intervention, which includes using the computer game Tetris, can prevent the unpleasant, intrusive memories that
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Here's an actual link rather than a screenshot, of note here:
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can affect people who have experienced war, torture, rape, road accidents or other kinds of situations in which they felt their life, or that of another person, was in danger. While most people do not develop PTSD after trauma, one of the core clinical symptoms in those who do involves recurrent and intrusive memories of the trauma (colloquially referred to as ‘flashbacks’). Evidence based treatment for PTSD includes trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy, however we lack preventative interventions to prevent the build-up of symptoms.

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'Our hypothesis was that after a trauma, patients would have fewer intrusive memories if they got to play Tetris as part of a short behavioural intervention while waiting in the hospital Emergency Department,' says Professor Holmes. 'Since the game is visually demanding, we wanted to see if it could prevent the intrusive aspects of the traumatic memories from becoming established i.e. by disrupting a process known as memory consolidation.'
The study involved 71 motor vehicle accident victims, of whom half received the intervention (recalled the trauma briefly and then played Tetris) while waiting in the hospital emergency department, and half performed another task, all doing so within six hours of the accident. Results showed that the researchers’ hypothesis was right: those who had played Tetris had fewer intrusive memories of the trauma in total over the week immediately following the accident than the controls. The researchers also found that the intrusive memories diminished more quickly.

+ an updated study that tested the effect again and found similar results over a longer period:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33431807/

The advice to take from here is twofold:

  1. The sooner you can engage with a distraction like tetris that consumes your focus and provides flashy visuals, the better. A quick response time is key to helping prevent the memory from settling in.
  2. While the impact of tetris is currently being studied, it's currently only been studied for motor vehicle accidents & traumatic imagery. We don't currently have data on how well it may effect other traumatic experiences. Might be worth a shot as it's very low cost, but it's not a cure all.