If you spend time on TikTok and other social media sites, you’ve probably encountered the word “seggs” in a hashtag or caption—and it definitely wasn’t a ...

"Algospeak" is a term used to describe the kind of internet language that replaces more sensitive words with seemingly innocuous words or emojis to avoid being censored by the algorithm. It's a form ...

To hear some people on TikTok tell it, we’ve spent years in a “panoramic.” Or perhaps it was a “panini press.” Some are in the “leg booty” community and stand firmly against “cornucopia.” If it all ...

Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language. Credit...Peter Garritano for The New York Times Supported by By ...

A new vocabulary — a little fun, a little dystopian — has emerged on the social video platform, as creators try to get around algorithms and strict content moderation. They call it algospeak. By ...

Adam Aleksic has been thinking about seggs. Not sex, but seggs — a substitute term that took off a few years ago among those trying to dodge content-moderation restrictions on TikTok. Influencers ...