Trying to take back the term KYS, by turning it into something else...

DOUBLE TAPPED E·2/24/2019, 3:17:34 AM·3 votes·3,453 views

And I guess that's disrespectful to the players who want to use the term maliciously, my bad.

"Keep Yourself Safe" is what I've been saying, spelled out in full, as a way to turn a negative into a positive whenever I encounter this term, but my post was removed for... reasons I guess.

So, that said, you better go find the rest of my posts where I said this, because we wouldn't want anyone to keep themselves safe, now would we?

23 Comments

limebuster2/24/2019, 3:42:52 AM11 votes

Hey x9cat, I was the one who removed your posts. "Reclaiming" KYS is not a thing. It's common knowledge what the term means and mocking or making light of that is not permitted. It's not clever. It's just mean. Comments like this are not funny and never will be, they are simply not permitted on the boards and therefore i removed them

DrCyanide2/24/2019, 3:25:13 AM8 votes

When "stay safe" is shorter, faster, more established, and less likely to get mistaken, why would you ever say "keep yourself safe"? "Keep yourself safe" doesn't even flow right.

Dynikus2/24/2019, 3:27:56 AM8 votes

It just comes off as a very low effort way to code that you're telling someone to kill themselves.

Kelg2/24/2019, 12:26:49 PM4 votes

You're not clever, and you're not fooling anyone. Just stop.

ChaosReyn2/24/2019, 1:30:33 PM3 votes

From a psychology standpoint, the practice is not a faulty one. However, "kys" has been around for awhile...it's pretty solidified. You're not going to simply take this one back. If it were a newer term and you applied this practice, it could work, provided enough people joined you in doing the same but there's still two problems with that.

The first is "a load of other people do the same"

And the second is "you manage to get more people saying it your way than the negative way."

While it's still technically possible for you to reclaim "kys" using this method, it's highly improbable, and even more highly improbable due to the severity of its meaning. So yeah, I'd still have to strongly advise against the idea, since it's been made clear at this point your reclamation is simply not going to be taken as anything more than coding it nicely and getting you in needless trouble.

The Derp Empress2/26/2019, 12:40:46 AM1 votes

It's not gonna work fam.

Mr map awareness3/1/2019, 9:34:12 PM1 votes

ur right we shouldnt say it cause its mean but if you say keep youreself safe its ok. upvoted for being clever as heck

Original Sin3/2/2019, 9:21:00 PM1 votes

Whats the point of that? LMAO.