A lot of this falls in to the bracket of what they call “Minced Oaths” in English.
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Since everyone is excited to point out the pre-existence of shite and muck, I'll share the one I thought was a computer age typo but wasn't: finna. "I'm finna get dinner". I swore it was a keyboard typo of "gonna" with G and O shifted one key to the left working itself into verbal vernacular. Instead, "gonna" is to "going to" as "finna" is to "fixing to". Just as OP hasn't heard British slang, this was something I hadn't heard from US Southern slang
Muck and Shite have been in common usage in the UK for more than a century before the Internet was even a thing
“shite” has been a British regional dialect usage for centuries
I'm fairly certain "muck up" was the original and people just started using "fuck up" because it rhymes....
What about loose for lose?
People have always said muck up and shite. Unalive is goofy and will hopefully fade.
Unalive is one pf the few new slang words I think is pretty clever.
Urban dict will live on
You know how it's a common misconception that in the early days of cinema people were fleeing the theatre because they thought the oncoming train was real?
Someday, they're going to think we were all Charizarding each other during the height of the Pokemon craze and that's where all these "sick burns" come from.