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IIRC the unalive and grape garbage didn’t start out being an advertiser thing, it was a China thing because that who controls your brain aka TikTok.
It might be an advertiser thing now, but it’s also always been a hostile foreign government thing too.
People were using "unalive" on YouTube before TikTok even existed.
For those keeping score in the audience, there was a 2013 episode of Ultimate Spider Man that used "unalive", and Tik Tok launched in 2016.
It kind of surprised me.