Why does everyone on TikTok talk like that?

[@carwyn3691]

I'm seventeen and I'm AFRAID of Benedict Townsend

[@Spudlet7]

I can't look at egg and muffin based meals the same

[@aldopach]

Yeah? Well.... That's Tennis.

[@Spudlet7]

@aldopach that is indeed tennis

[@veselsvocal]

Duuuude. Totally Tennis.

[@emmakorhonen]

The one I hate the most is "sewer slide" for suicide which just makes me feel weird. (I mean, I like slides but not into sewers)

[@Krusty_bot63]

Or "PDF File" and "grape"

[@someidiotmetalhead]

"sewer slide" sounds like a grindcore band ngl

[@blahblahblahEMILY]

@@Krusty_bot63 "grape" drives me insane

[@datapepple8024]

Oh that’s the one I hate the most. Not only does it put a gross image in your head ‘a sewer slide’, but it just feels extra disrespectful to talk about someone losing their life so sadly with such gross words.

[@alexadams2291]

i will say talking about a tragic life story and they say yeah in the end he “self exited” i CANT

[@orionnebula1136]

Its even worse when people talk like that in real life

[@barneyjones6273]

Algospeak drives me absolutely cocoa, it just makes my mind boom like a bonbon. Genuinely makes me want to hand-kiss a wall. For realsies. I can't take anyone seriously when they use it

[@laurin4405]

🥚Eggcellent Eggsplanation🍳

[@jaynaneeya]

The fact that Benedict has tried to make “that’s tennis” a thing a few times throughout the years, but it took Scroll Deep to actually make it happen, is so funny

[@ampersandcastle1091]

I wrote an extended essay on algospeak last year, comparing it to the language incels use (looksmaxxing, mogging, etc). The takeaway was essentially that while the two were created for different reasons, algospeak for circumventing content moderation to keep it accessible to a wider audience, and incel-speak to keep it confined within an insular community, both actually had a similar ‘insular’ effect and algospeak therefore doesn’t work. Not to brag or anything but it got me a first from Oxford and hey, that’s tennis! 😽 (big basket swing)

[@spooky-spaghetti]

that is such a cool study to make! new forms of language is fascinating. big props to u! also u deserve to brag to as many ppl as u can, i’m a random person who’s impressed so u gotta share ur success!!! 🩷

[@descendintostanarchy]

Any chance you still have that essay somewhere? I'd love to read it.

[@MeemNoir]

In my school the climbing frames that were never used were just called "apparatus".. it had an ominous air about it idk

[@deadhouseplant1585]

Have I never had a unique experience

[@melbapeach162]

​@@deadhouseplant1585we all went to the same school.

[@artvid-1915]

Sameee

[@annikagylling3685]

Omg I loved the ladder things!! I grew up in Sweden and we used them all the time. they would make like obstacle courses with them and the gymnastics equipment it was the best!!!

[@tiavanbockel8887]

I'll be the first to say it... that's just tennis

[@bridgetsmith8196]

My favorite part of the playground was the rocks. Just lookin at the rocks

[@selmalarsson8920]

I really hate that people censor themself to the point where you just can’t understand what they even mean. Like either you talk about serious stuff or your don’t, but hey, I guess that’s just tennis

[@SamHarrison2099]

Algo-speak really does ruin otherwise great videos for me. But I guess that’s just tennis.

[@SamHarrison2099]

Swings are obviously the GOAT

[@slickwine]

It's always that back and forth between TikTok and its creators. The creators bat with the language and the platform bats with the shadow bans. And the content gets lost in the net. At the end of the day... That's tennis

[@KNHarrison125]

I feel like the panini and panorama was less about censorship and the algorithm and more about people just being funny for the sake of memes. Cause I definitely used to call it anything. Panda Express, Panoramic, Parallelogram, etc.

[@missdenisebee]

This video needs to blow up & get more eyes on it…algospeak drives me crazy😭 I get that creators are trying to protect their earning potential & not get demonetized or buried by the algorithm, but come ON. Watching a serious video about a sensitive topic, and having to decode the words & emojis they’re using to tell their story…it really takes you out of the moment & makes it difficult to watch.

[@QuarterMoonRachel]

It's gotta be the swings. That really is tennis

[@TheMedicatedArtist]

Best example is “unsubscribed from life”; I unironically use it at work all the time 😂

[@sinistersam]

My videos always get falsely flagged for things or removed just because I don’t abbreviate swears. My page has also had strikes against it because of this. I definitely do not want to be saying “unalive” but TikTok even flags “k!lled” so I don’t know what to do. I’ve just kind of stopped making content.

[@JessicaKennedy367]

This might date me, but Merry-go-rounds. Specifically the fully metal ones whose speed was only limited by how fast you could run.

[@jaynaneeya]

This is the correct answer

[@matiasveraaravena7261]

How do you say "that's tennis" in algospeak? "Well, that's 10is"

[@thehobnob]

"It ain't badminton"

[@Rflowers321]

That’s Dennis 👴🏻

[@beccaowl7452]

My favorite algospeak is one I’m not sure of the origins of, it’s “That’s tennis”. It’s has several different meanings, and not everyone uses it, but it’s definitely been seen here and there! For Crabble Rowan, my favorite playground equipment was the sticks and the rocks we’d dig up in the school yard as the other kids got blisters on the monkey bars.

[@_sophies]

Social media sites always say context matters to them but it never actually does, they're always very (understandably) ban/mute happy. Except X, The Everything App, of course.

[@caramazzola2399]

I was just listening to a podcast where the host described how he, a Jew, was banned from Twitter for making a satirical antisemitic post (it literally ended with "I am very smart"). Funny, since Elon Musk himself has made plenty of tweets that were plainly antisemitic

[@bodyorphanage]

it's wild to me that "influencers" are using this kind of language for videos because iirc it started with people censoring themselves on Twitter bc ppl would report your tweet just for having the word in it and the ban bots obv didn't care about the context. Like it was for a specific reason but now people are doing because they think TikTok won't push their content out on people's FYP??

[@RustyVenture98]

You won't believe the crazy story about how my friend was almost unalived while using the primate poles after he hit his brain box on the lower pole and landed strong-style on terra firma, which led to most of the fun field equipment being permabanned

[@lizbethdane]

lol primate poles

[@thehousecat93]

This is starting to read like A Clockwork Orange’s Nadsat dialect.

[@GoddessofWisdom]

This is a great question and a hard one to answer. As an adult I like anything that requires climbing, rather that be a net-like structure or a classic jungle gym. However, as a child I loved spinning things, from merry-go-rounds to more individual spinny wheels that you would hang from or clutch onto standing up (not sure what they're called, they each seem to be different at every playground that has them). We had a metal glider at one of my elementary schools that all the cool girls hung out at, and I also love those lines of hanging poles with little platforms at the bottom that you walk between (not sure if anyone knows what I'm talking about). But I think if I take into account both my childhood preferences and adult ones, as well as simplicity and ubiquity, I think the best one is a tire swing - both the vertical kind for one kid and the horizontal kind, where multiple kids can swing at once. If I saw a tire swing as a kid I'd get super excited, and I'd have the same reaction now.

[@TobyWild]

I wonder if Benedict is wishing he was unalive after all the Scrolldiers have embraced "that's tennis", which felt like a throw-away gag at the time. But hey, sometimes you get to use the zipline, and sometimes you don't, and after all, that's tennis.

[@agoodwasteoftime]

I will say, I'm pretty sure i got shadowbanned on tiktok just for answering someone asking what BED is (Binge Eating Disorder), so I can understand peoples cautiousness cause you just never know what tiktok will accept and what it won't

[@CollieKit]

I always loved that squiggly pole where you stand on like a shelf on it and spin like a madman.

[@luspillscoffee]

I love a simple swing. I always want to swing on the beach swings in the summer that are in the water but kids are always playing there and they never go away. So inconsiderate

[@SJlovesher49ers]

Omg same

[@jazwragg]

I'm seeing a huge lack of roundabouts mentioned in these comments - the one at our park had accidentally been installed at a slight angle making it absolutely lethal and it was a true test of grip-strength and willpower to not be flung off. Many an injury was had but hey, that's tennis

[@queencleopatra007]

Those were banned across most of the US years ago because of all of the kids who would go flying off and getting injured 😅. Probably why the lack of mentions. But they were my fave as a kid too 😂

[@scarletonyx8507]

Swing I always forget how much I enjoy this time with you until I see you’ve popped up on my feed and then I think “Oh yeah, I love that guy!”

[@DogWick]

Swings and those rope climbing frames where you move across like Uncharted were my favorites, the monkey bars though...jesus i could barely make it halfway across

[@nadiyah5734]

We have to expand on the whole scrolldiers thing

[@jamesjwr]

"slide person" sounds like a slur to me

[@anniequa1039]

Whatever that non-descript rotating disc thing is....the Plate of Dizziness. Soon TikTok-speak will render language useless and I think we should all get ahead of the curve and start using Wingdings

[@lizbethdane]

The absolute BOAT of the funyard has to be the VIEW-VIEWED. And that my algofriend is just tennis.

[@sharky3003]

Tennis am i right

[@JamesLawner]

Only legends remember "Bobba"

[@Popster.f1]

My school used to have a go kart track for pedal cars. That was my favourite peice of playground equipment

[@Klosaphine]

The spiderweb climbing frame 100%

[@laurin4405]

One must be extremely careful so as to avoid being Unalived on my favorite, the Simple Swingset

[@OperatorGaruu]

Absolutely climbing frames. It builds a core fitness level.

[@scabby.knees99]

I'm way too old and AFRAID of 12 year olds when they're performing day-to-day activities.

[@tomatopotatu8137]

My fav playground equipment is that zipline thing? Like it's a seat and you run down a hill and then you reach the edge of it BAM and then you slowly go back

[@catstation2]

this video is just tennis

[@jamjar_rw]

That giant scorching metal slide will always be the GOAT because the pain never stopped us

[@3zObafouzr]

scroll deep SERVES up another ACE

[@Izzalicious]

We had those pulled out once, and a kid fell off it and broke his arm so we never had them again...

[@dedicatedsidea4497]

i’m dying at the r/AutismInWomen shout out at the start. that’s just tennis i guess

[@cuandotumedasunagalleta7169]

I was looking for someone to comment this 😆 my people

[@maggiepark1038]

the slide that was just two parallel bars

[@annam9282]

I love the monkey bars but just sitting on top of them

[@Skooskah]

that thing where it's a bunch of wooden slats on ropes and you have to swing from one to the other to get across that is peak tennis

[@GrandHighGamer]

TikTok has the incredibly property of making me feel 85 years old any time I learn anything new about it.

[@dustycrowb0nes]

As some censorship expert once said - “a single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic”. But self-censorship for the sake of attention is so weird.

[@Art_andBooks]

It was like a giant teeter totter but went around fast like a roundabout. It was on a farm that my extended family rented for a weekend. Makes sense for schools not to use it.

[@ks-yl3pw]

The swings are obviously the best. Especially because they come with an extra dose of unsafeness if you jump off them at their highest. Your ankle might hug the ground on impact, and result in needing to go to the not-well facility.

[@Chloe11Buttons09]

I watched a tiktok video talking about ‘toxic rugs’ instead of drugs and it took me way too long to realise what they were talking about. I thought there were some killer rugs out there.

[@aminamustafa2609]

THE SWINGS ARE THE BEST

[@emerybarker4862]

I liked the rockclimbing walls

[@digbyskellington]

I remember the first time I made it all the way to the other end of the monkey bars; I dropped down onto the sand in front of my third-best friend and said to him “Now THAT was tennis!”

[@gnbabychangbin]

I think the best piece of playground equipment is the swings cuz they were always so fun and let me forget about everything until someone ran in front of me

[@elizabethb9274]

I am a circle swing person through and through, but at the unaliving of the day, that's tennis

[@Stapler42]

I think those wall climbing things are a uniquely U.K. thing, I was so confused coming from Australia and seeing them, especially because they were not once actually used

[@ourania_a]

i liked the playground equipment that was like the double ladder.... like a tube made of ladders. usually it's used as a jail but i liked clambering around.

[@ree4353]

Well, that's yellow ball sport

[@maggie-11210]

the wooden ships were goated, i was devastated when they took ours away

[@cronchypickle]

Swings are it for me Benny

[@RookJupiter]

Swings are objectively the best because they're the only ones you could use as an adult and still be taken seriously.

[@sh4wty7]

The swings

[@SJlovesher49ers]

Definitely “the swings”!!

[@whatever32]

In the words of George Orwell, tennis is peace, freedom is tennis, and tennis is strength

[@emmaevans888]

I always loved the swings, but you know sometimes they’re all taken and that’s tennis

[@NyanyiC]

the basket like swing

[@MadeleineSwannSurreal]

I was the lord of rope climbing. I amazed my friends and horrified my enemies

[@cherry97girl]

As someone who posts about mental health and suicidality sometimes when I don't censor myself my videos are deemed as promoting suicide, which is not the case whatsoever, I'm just being very honest about my personal struggles and TikTok doesn't like that for some reason so I have to use these words or a sound effect. I think the way they hand out these bans shadow or outright is biased, I think some creators; of colour, disabled people and many minorities are banned more often than others

[@Sarahew85]

A classic, swings

[@Gzeebo]

My favourite is the mud pit with the barbed wire over it.

[@Urduhkhan]

I-I don't like tennis. Uhhhh, That's Dentists! Wait...

[@sarahj2424]

The apparatus (the holy grail of school playground play equipment) I assume other schools had a less weird and dark name for it?!

[@Narrative_Ink]

Swings were for sure a big thing for me. Even today I can get on them and enjoy them a lot. Anything on the tennis court is peak.

[@Spudlet7]

Those tire zip line things are my faverout

[@meg6864]

I loved monkey bars as a kid so much i got blisters on my palms. And you know what. That’s tennis

[@harryrhysday]

i like a roundabout personally

[@Starsongzz]

Meanwhile I post a 5 second squabble downtown and TikTok removes the video :))))

[@lukegraves6403]

sounds like tennis to me

[@sumardeen7165]

I’m a monkey bars person!! The key is to SWING your body weight from bar to bar

[@veselsvocal]

Look in this complex world, things are either tennis, or they are simply not tennis. This? I was watching this while playing a game of League of Legends and all I could think about this incredible reporting was 'well, that is absolutely tennis'

[@appleblossonkim]

A balance beam made of rounded wood = 🐐

[@AtlantaClarke]

I love this channel so much ❤ I have to go with the swings

[@rebekahNo_cca]

I’m a monkey bars person. Used to play chicken on them with other kids thanks for pulling up those fun memories!

[@belindi25]

The Seesaw is always superior

[@HAZRE.]

Video gets demonetized thanks to Benedict saying *all* the forbidden words

[@spooky-spaghetti]

hello i am not only engaging as a fan who often does but also bc i want the algorithm to know that u can USE THE WORDS. - also the wooden gym apparatus reference is too real, mine were way more complex and i didn't see them used a single time.

[@Leslie.__.]

Swing sets for the win

[@lucyhuntley4527]

swings or those swings which are baskets so loads of people can swing

[@Ambyr95]

Because that’s tennis.

[@helen.3432]

I’m a slide girlie, myself, but that’s just tennis

[@kevinl6231]

Hello from the US. I subscribed for the accent😀❗

[@arcade3198]

that's tennis babey

[@rhysellis6887]

that's tennis!

[@jwhall93]

has to be the pedal bikes in a circle