• @toynbee
    link
    102 days ago

    I understand (though don’t support) censoring words because of OCR limiting what kinds of images you can post to social media, but is “God” really a problem? Not to say it necessarily shouldn’t be, but the values behind censorship seem like they wouldn’t oppose it.

    Is the bottom third of text in this image removed for a similar reason?

    • no bananaOP
      link
      42 days ago

      I have no idea about the first question. The answer to the second is that this meme has been reposted so many times it is no longer a whole meme.

    • @Nurse_Robot
      link
      32 days ago

      To the first question - it’s likely to trigger engagement. When you feel the need to question something bizarre in a post, such as questionable censorship or mispronunciation, the answer is overwhelmingly that they just wanted people to comment about it, thus increasing engagement and telling the algorithm to promote it more