Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie

• 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.

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  • Bezier@suppo.fi ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I thinknthe correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if that was true though.

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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup the real 1984 is all corpo-advertising driven.

      Well, that and wannabe fascists.

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• 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.

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not surprised T*kTok does that

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  • uienia@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And it is not even just sweating. Heroin isnt a swearword.

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• 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.

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• Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  pRoFaNiTy

  The most infuriating US thing to me

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  • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’ve obviously never crossed the street in NY.

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    • Korne127@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Fun fact: I literally was in New York (City) and did cross streets there!

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      • slackassassin@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well fuck off then shit head

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• 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.

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