History Main / NewsPeak

* In TheNewTwenties, a specific kind of Newspeaks has emerged, but it's based around algorithm that shares random contents on the internet: [[https://bookriot.com/algospeak/ algospeak]]. It is the use of coded expressions to evade automated moderation algorithms on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube. Users use algospeak to discuss topics deemed sensitive to moderation algorithms while avoiding penalties such as shadow banning. Corporate advertisers don't want their products associate with videos, posts, or contents involving words with disturbing or taboo subjects, or anything that encourages viewers to commit self-destructive acts. To keep these social media companies with the advertising money, they have to shadowban creators that use contentious words such as "kill" or "sex" and prevent their contents getting spread to wider viewers. So many creators, especially on [=TikTok=], has to use replacement words that more or less something out of George Orwell's novel like "unalive."

* In TheNewTwenties, a specific kind of Newspeaks has emerged, but it's based around algorithm that shares random contents on the internet: [[https://bookriot.com/algospeak/ algospeak]]. Corporate advertisers don't want their products associate with videos, posts, or contents involving words with disturbing or taboo subjects, or anything that encourages viewers to commit self-destructive acts. To keep these social media companies with the advertising money, they have to shadowban creators that use contentious words such as "kill" or "sex" and prevent their contents getting spread to wider viewers. So many creators, especially on [=TikTok=], has to use replacement words that more or less something out of George Orwell's novel like "unalive."

* Anthony Burgess plays with this as "Worker's English" (or WE) in his novel, ''1985'', written as a response to Orwell.
* Creator/AynRand's novella ''Anthem'' depicts a stagnant, collectivist future in which words like "I," "Me," "Mine," have been eliminated in favor of "We", "Us," and "Our." He/She has become "They." Other words have been eliminated as well, which the main character rediscovers from ancient texts. Rand's use of the basic concept even predates Orwell.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In one of the [[HalloweenEpisode Treehouse Of Horror]] specials, Homer's tampering with time creates an Orwellian Springfield with Ned Flanders as Big Brother: "Heidely-ho, slaverinos!" That's right. They [[IncrediblyLamePun Flander]]ized Newspeak.

* The fate of the Khmer language, after Pol Pot's 4-year run. In order to create an agricultural society, all intelligentsia was thoroughly killed, people were removed from cities and words were deleted so peasants could only think about their work. Today, Khmer has to borrow a lot from English or make do with what is available, which means a whole line can be used just to say "floater". For the record, there was no word for "free" in common Khmer anymore when they took the english equivalent.