Do you speak Algospeak, the language of social media?

On social media, people sometimes use an emoji to replace a word that could attract the attention of moderators. — Photography da-kuk/Getty Images/AFP Relaxnews

Algospeak is a term that refers to a trend that has taken hold on social networks. In order to avoid having content deleted by moderators, internet users have invented their own coded language to slip through the net.

This phenomenon is everywhere on social networks. To avoid seeing comments or videos deleted from social platforms, users have been clever enough to invent their own language. The method is simple: just replace a word, which can be detected by a platform's moderation system, by another completely different word, an emoji, or with a deliberately misspelled version of the word. And that's what's known as Algospeak.