Is this stupid trend of censoring words a USA thing? And why is it so popular? I’m legit wondering since I cannot understand.
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Bezier@suppo.fi 4 weeks ago
Good thing I was protectrd from that last word.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s a social media thing. Supposedly posts get deprioritized by the algorithm if they contain “family unfriendly” words like kill or drug references. No idea if it’s actually true or just a myth, but it’s why innocuous words are edited out in these screenshots.
Bezier@suppo.fi 4 weeks ago
I thinknthe correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true though.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Yup the real 1984 is all corpo-advertising driven.
Well, that and wannabe fascists.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lots of social media now deprioritizes “advertiser unfriendly” content. Especially TikTok. So, the response to that is to self-censor so that you still reach full engagement. It’s an arms race to keep swearing without the algorithms silencing you for doing so.
lugal@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I’m not surprised T*kTok does that
uienia@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And it is not even just sweating. Heroin isnt a swearword.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Depends, actual censorship of words exist worldwide.
Pointless censorship however i have only seen in US and Japan, but both for very different types of content.
Korne127@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
pRoFaNiTy
The most infuriating US thing to me
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You’ve obviously never crossed the street in NY.
Korne127@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Fun fact: I literally was in New York (City) and did cross streets there!
Vespair@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Honestly at this point it’s just engagement bait. Yes, the trend is awful and terrible and stupid, but also people cannot resist the temptation of calling that out as well, so now it serves double-duty of being easy comment farming (note: this applies more to places like reddit than here on Lemmy, but I’m speaking in generalities here).
It’s a kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t thing in terms of responding to this stupid self-censorship.
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
They left “her”, which changes the poor lad from a humble druggie to an obsessive creep.
MBM@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Nah, he’s just a film buff
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He’s addicted to her. Hear that? Women are addictive, and make you a junkie! /s
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I, too, am addicted to hemoglobin.
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
I refuse to live without it - gimme gimme, I NEEDZ it!:-)
OpenStars@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
He’s protected from Her? It’s a sex thing.
No wait, he’s protected from He - it’s even more of a sex thing.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What is it? I want to be addicted to something! What could it be? As soon as I find out I’m going to immediately get addicted to it, no matter what.
windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Herein
jxk@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Herman
ArachnidMania@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Great blue heron