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Kate Morley

In the same way most of us say “goodbye” without realising it derives from “god be with ye”, maybe one day people will end conversations with “likensubscribe”

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Martin Vuillème /vɥ-iɛm/

@sarajw @kate lichen subscribe? I'm in for this mosstodon variant!

mirabilos

@sarajw @MartinVuilleme @kate leee-chen with a soft ch is how I instinctively say it, but I’m not english, so…

Dallas (Join Something IRL)

@sarajw @kate

Future people: "What even is a "Lichen chair"?"

Clare

@kate ‘subscribe to our Patreon’ for formal occasions

Passenger

@Clare @kate

"Unsubscribe" or "swipe right" as parting curse words.

ShadSterling

@passenger @Clare @kate making the gesture in the air to someone’s back after they turn away. With two fingers for emphasis.

CynAq 🤘

@kate “click the bell icon so you’ll never miss a new video” part will be more difficult to roll off the tongue

Alanna

@kate In Irish people said "Dia duit" for "Hello". "Dia duit" literally means "God be with you" too.

Stege 🐃

@kate or a hrathwarming "nfolloblock" if the conversation did not end well 🙃

Skye \ Uzi :flag_transgender:

@kate oh interesting, english has that kind of common phrase too

russian has spasibo, which means thank you, comes from spasi bog / asking god to save them essentially

3 Player Politics

@kate my 10yo son told me today that the maker of his Transformers toy call it a blaster not a "g-u-n" so that "they don't get de-monitized"

Ticktok

@3PlayerPolitics @kate technically not incorrect, it just predates youtube/internet since it was for kids television.

viq

@kate
I think I heard of some small kids that were given YT to spend time with doing exactly that.

𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐧 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦

@baltakatei @kate 'bye' is to 'goodbye' what 'bel' is to 'plikenscribenbel'
(bye bye === benbel)
🤣

proedie

@rebeccafinn @kate Maybe that could be the response.

A: Likensubsribe.

B: Ringdabell!

Pterry

@proedie there is already a whole "ring my bell" song by Anita Ward. 😁 @rebeccafinn @kate

Michael Richardson

@rebeccafinn @kate Just translate to German and then Back first.

Kay Ohtie, Bat-Yote!

@kate I bristled uncomfortably at this

Oh no

Chris Real

@kate

Well, everybody on youtube, including the AI, already does . . .

Rich Felker

@kate You're way behind the times. 😂

Steven Sandoval

@kate O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, O Plikenscribe, I prithee. 🎄 youtu.be/LC6F8wnYKkg #simlish

alexadeswift

@kate wouldn't that be start a conversation? 🤔

Sam

@kate Reminds me of a post I saw somewhere recently where someone suggested that “chat” (like twitch chat) had the potential to evolve into English’s first designated 4th person noun.

shitpostalotl
@TheSmollestofBeans @kate that reminds me of a reply i saw on tumblr recently (will try to find the link) where someone pointed out that the "4th person pronoun" use of chat is literally just a collective noun. not like a prescriptivist "its this because i say it is" either, the grammatical concept of "collective noun" perfectly describes what is happening here. what does "4th person" even mean??

EDIT: tumblr's deeply stupid search function won't show me the post. Hopefully a description of the event by the guy who originally took umbrage with it will suffice. https://janmisali.tumblr.com/post/738971498364141568
@TheSmollestofBeans @kate that reminds me of a reply i saw on tumblr recently (will try to find the link) where someone pointed out that the "4th person pronoun" use of chat is literally just a collective noun. not like a prescriptivist "its this because i say it is" either, the grammatical concept of "collective noun" perfectly describes what is happening here. what does "4th person" even mean??
Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET

@TheSmollestofBeans @kate Sounds to me a little like the choir in old Greek theater

Jaycie

@dragonarchitect @kate Xe propose that we all start doing this immediately and get ahead of the curve. Haha.

Zuri (he/him) 🕐 CET

@dragonarchitect @kate That's the one, most likely to evolve in one speakable and rememberable word

joachim

@kate My 7yo says 'send!' when passing a card in a card game.

Bluedepth

@kate Get more mileage out of “Momento Mori”… ;)

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

@kate When parting from friends after a night out: Hi’thable!

Hannah

@kate something like this already happening with youth attaching ".exe" to indicate a poisonous or bad version of a thing/character. It probably stems from "don't open if it ends in .pdf.exe" or similar warnings regarding email attachments but seems to have gained a completely detached cultural meaning.

Hannah

@kate pronouncing UwU could also be considered in the ballpark - while people are aware of the original emoticon meaning, it has also become a word.

Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@scatty_hannah
Oh? I only know “<person name>.exe stopped working” as comment to situations where a person is speechless, and that clearly stems from a Windows error message.

@kate

blake

@scatty_hannah @kate I think it came from “SONIC.EXE”. I want to say prior to that becoming big on YouTube, part of the joke was it was a supposedly innocent looking Sonic game to start with, but maybe I’m completely wrong

lunya (cute) :neocat_floof:

@scatty_hannah@queer.party @kate@fosstodon.org pretty sure the exe bs started from that one sonic creepypasta

That said

Lunya.tar.gz when

draeh

@kate Gotta work in that 'hit the bell' phrase some how, but I agree.

Mikal with a k

@kate

Somewhere in the future I suspect "linkinbio" might find a niche as well.

ShadSterling

@Mikal @kate it’ll be the thing to say when you hand someone a business card… or wave your phone at them for the comparable NFC transfer

Federico Damián Schonborn

@kate likensub everyone, I'm going to take a nap

Hideki Motosuwa

@kate
And maybe most of photos in the future will have people open their mouths and look surprised just like those in YT thumbnails.

arosien

@kate my 8-year-old tells me to “smash that like button”. so i have a gesture for that.

hypha - a fungus element

@kate i can’t tell if the “goodbye” part is serious or not

Duke

@kate So, Buh-Bye becomes Scruh-Scribe?

getmisch

@kate There's a Simpsons game where if you tap one of the Barts he says "I can't believe I replaced 'goodbye' with 'smell ya later'!"

Teaceratops/GameDev Mum

@kate my kid already does this. I don’t know if it’s the echolalia, or a joke, tbh it could be either with her.

Azuaron

@kate The current generation of children already say--to themselves--things like, "Hi, I'm <name> and we're going to build a Lego house today." Then, when they stop playing with a particular thing, "Thanks for watching my stream, remember to like and subscribe." It's eerie.

Erik Uden 🍑

@kate this is the funniest stuff I've seen today

Tim M

@kate I have been known to end a rant with an internal mental chorus of Adam Buxton's "Like and Subscribe" closing theme tune from his podcasts
youtube.com/watch?v=OLXaJRjC5C

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@kate
And a hearty likenscribe to you too!

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@kate this will age like Roman concrete

Deathmaster Megalodon Ultrakill 9000

@kate i thought goodbye was the opposite of evilbye which is what you say to someone you hate unless you were being sarcastinc then you still say goodbye

Siff

@kate There is a Robert Sheckley (IIRC) novel where people are greeting and parting with ad slogans and there was a social stigma if one didn’t use the correct slogan or something like that. Great novel! I’ll update the post if I find it.

Jon Hancock

@kate @CultureDesk I've certainly heard of kids referring to adverts as "skip-ads" because of YouTube.

Mister Moo 🐮

@kate Before we do that, can we do away with saying "bless you" when someone sneezes?

Aaron Hockley

@kate @anildash I keep thinking if I had a nature video channel I'd call it Lichen Subscribe.

mathew

@kate You just reminded me of "kthxbai", though that wasn't so much a verbal thing.

Or we could go retro and start answering phone calls with "Ahoy-hoy".

Stygian Lizard

@mathew @kate I thought BRB or "birb" was gonna take off and fill this niche, but it's definitely faded. Birbs are now what folks call birds.

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@kate We are on this path. likensubscribe.

Jonas Möller Nielsen

@kate So just saying “bye” is the non religious version then?

Steven

@kate “Smashlton“ - Smash that like button

cybik :deifirev:

@kate eugh. now I need to find a different way to say that.

generationX

@kate hello at the beginning of a conversation is replaced with helb. Hit Early Like Button

Jacob Ibáñez :verified:

@kate oh I didn't know this, in Spanish and Catalán is the same, but way more obvious

Daniel Sofer :kyoto:

@kate I read about a ~5yo kid who watched a lot of YouTube and started using "please subscribe to my channel" as a salutation 😂

Peter Oram

@kate @GulfCoastJake I always say “gesundheit” when someone sneezes to avoid “[god] bless you”. (Although it’s not a perfect solution, since there are links between heit/health and holy.)
Does this mean I need to say Cheerio instead of Goodbye?! Or the old-fashioned Australian word “Hooray/Hooroo”?

Glyph

@kate @anildash

“Lichen-sub, Scribe”

“And also with you”

Gemma 👽

@kate
Or "Link simbio!"

"What does that even mean, they'll ask. Someone will remember archaic spelling "links in bio", but no recollection of what it meant...

KateYagi

@kate I bet the sub part would be dropped to make "likenscribe." and people would get the etymology confused and think it means "I enjoy what we wrote together."

Orion (he/him)

@kate I've read that we can't confirm its "god be with ye." Not that that affects your point!

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