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 2 months ago
Good thing I was protectrd from that last word.
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I thinknthe correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true though.
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Yup the real 1984 is all corpo-advertising driven.
Well, that and wannabe fascists.
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I’m not surprised T*kTok does that
uienia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And it is not even just sweating. Heroin isnt a swearword.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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 2 months ago
pRoFaNiTy
The most infuriating US thing to me
slackassassin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You’ve obviously never crossed the street in NY.
Korne127@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Fun fact: I literally was in New York (City) and did cross streets there!
Vespair@lemm.ee 2 months 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 2 months ago
They left “her”, which changes the poor lad from a humble druggie to an obsessive creep.
MBM@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Nah, he’s just a film buff
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He’s addicted to her. Hear that? Women are addictive, and make you a junkie! /s
RiceMunk@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I, too, am addicted to hemoglobin.
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months ago
I refuse to live without it - gimme gimme, I NEEDZ it!:-)
OpenStars@discuss.online 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Herein
jxk@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Herman
ArachnidMania@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Great blue heron