PuniUwUCute's definitions

TMRW

A digital bank by UOB that is mainly for young generations (and so other digital banks) and available in some SE Asian countries. For some reason, the Singaporean version is bland, has no cartoony world (called "City of TMRW"), and no gamification

Talking about digital banks, probably they're meant to fund banks for their credit business due to how banks work (bank uses deposited money to credit people who need it and get income from the interest in return)

TMRW is a digital bank by UOB that offers gamification and rewards if you reach certain targets

Like other digital banks (in Indonesia, not sure in other countries), they offer a moderate APY

by PuniUwUCute February 16, 2023

sample music

Music meant to be remixed for creating songs, often used in raps and EDMs. Probably a trade or an IP secret for most or many musicians as this kind of song is usually not credited and they probably do not tell you if you ask

So, Your Favorite Martian or Ray William Johnson introduced me to the term "sample music" or "sample production music". He probably will not tell you which company he uses if you ask since he hides the file names whenever he wants to show proof that other songs with the same patterns as his are not stolen but uses the same sample music company as his

I identified a song and Google, Shazam, and Reddit music ID AIs (r/NameThatSong) gave me different songs with the exact sample music, mostly explicit (especially on the lyrics), but I feel something else or not explicit if there's no context given. Even there's a Michael Jackson song with one of the variations of the exact sample music, indicating that the sample song I searched is older than my estimation

by PuniUwUCute February 18, 2023

Coin

A censored word in Shopee Indonesia, but not on other Shopees, for some reason as if this is an illegal product. Probably because of the abusive behavior of Indonesians exploiting the coin reward feature (1 coin = 1 IDR, or the smallest unit of the currency where Shopee is available, e.g 1 coin = 0.01 SGD or 1 coin = 1 TWD)

This is a hilarious yet annoying censor

I cannot search coin purses or coin wallets on Shopee Indonesia because they censored the word "coin", both in Indonesian and English, unless I misspelt it

by PuniUwUCute February 16, 2023

Abyssinica Speech

The funny robotic Amharic text to speech, possibly made and voiced by one guy named Meshesha Kibret Cherie, based on my research about who made BunnaScript (also made by this guy, he has 3 videos explaining his programming language and his company name is EthioCloud/Meliyu/Kekros)

Some words are real recording instead of synthetized, like: 4W1H, some country names including Ethiopia, common verbs, etc

His actual voice, when he explaining about BunnaScript, sounds charming and friendly. Some of his TTS prerecorded voices for specific words sounds funny

So, Lapatata (in different languages memes Youtuber) used Abyssinica Speech to speak out words translated into Amharic. The non-robotic one, which is Ameha (Male) from MicMonster, is no longer used due to paywall, the pro voices no longer have a demo, and possibly warning from the company. At the end, Abyssinica Speech is still the best one for the Amharic TTS due to the meme nature of their videos

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The meme: You sussy baka

Abyssinica Speech (reads the translation) : Anta... susi baka!

by PuniUwUCute January 29, 2023

Korean blur

Zero tolerance brand censorship policy on South Korean media. Not even stores without names or with generic names can escape from this policy, as long as they have at least one board with text on it, though, the clerk or the owner or the employee will not be blurred if they're in the topic or in question. Any passerby stores/vendors, without or with names/brands, ads, and items with names/brands are blurred. They will even blur the entire background if the background is full of stores/vendors and/or ads and/or brands, like background blur in video conferences/meetings. An exception is when the topic takes place outside South Korea and will only blur what they visit or news footage with a reporter/journalist on the field, otherwise, the background or a specific street side is blurred if the footages are not from the media

Can someone explain about Korean blur phenomenon? Looks like South Korea has a societal problem that not even Japan have, although they have similar problems. Searching for this particular thing would only get about censorship in general, which is not specific to South Korea (with the exception of some crime-themed documentaries like Natgeo Airport Security, in which all passerby airplanes logo and even obscure brands or local business brands are blurred, possibly done as litigation due to strongly negative topics and possibly causes a bad reputation to passerby brands)

by PuniUwUCute April 29, 2023

Google Lens

An intentionally stupid image search AI that censors you from searching images with women/girls, regardless of real or cartoon, naked or not. Also many artworks from small artists are omitted from the search, so that searching the OPs from artworks are hard on this and you have to rely on Yandex (most reliable) or Bing or Baidu (for Chinese artists)

Whenever it's not censored, the search results are not accurate and shows you similar things instead

"That farting woman cartoon that said "biu" has no result whenever you try to search on Google Lens, but Yandex and Baidu shows the exact result"

"Search any cute stickers or art you get from Pinterest, Google Lens might not tell you, not even giving the similar results"

"Try searching something like Touhou or any Japanese cartoons on Google Lens. They said no search results but for some reason, they sometimes don't censor"

by PuniUwUCute February 14, 2023

Orang Tua

Or "OT"

One of the biggest consumer goods company in Indonesia with an old Chinese man as the logo

When abbreviated, people see this company like P&G and Unilever

But when isn't abbreviated, their name have a strong association to their red wine product, or amer (an acronym for anggur merah)(pronounced "amer" as in "America", amèr, amaer, A-maire, or a-mer)

This possibly causes their logo and how they called are different when placed on their non-alcoholic products. The non-alcoholic logo is simplified

Orang Tua Group produces things like dental health products (toothpaste, toothbrush, mouthwash), snacks, drinks, etc. Started as an alcoholic drink company, or they call it "traditional drink" and they still sell it

by PuniUwUCute March 26, 2023