• @Wild_Mastic
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    443 months ago

    Is this stupid trend of censoring words a USA thing? And why is it so popular? I’m legit wondering since I cannot understand.

    • @Quetzalcutlass
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      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 users edit out innocuous words in these screenshots.

      • Bezier
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        I think the correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.

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

    • @chuckleslord
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      253 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
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        63 months ago

        I’m not surprised T*kTok does that

      • @uienia
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        43 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 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.

    • @Korne127
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      53 months ago

      pRoFaNiTy

      The most infuriating US thing to me

        • @Korne127
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          13 months ago

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

            • @Korne127
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              13 months ago

              ???

              Can you like, genuinely, explain? I have no idea what you’re talking about

              • @[email protected]
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                I was just joking about how newyorkers are notoriously, flippantly, pRoFAnE. Which is just a dumb stereotype, and like most things about the US, it’s not monolithic. Including some infuriating lack of profanity … ya cunt‽