• Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
      473·
      2 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        39·
        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 users edit out innocuous words in these screenshots.

        • Bezier@suppo.fi
          43·
          2 months ago

          I think the correct term is “advertiser unfriendly”.

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

      • chuckleslord@lemmy.world
        25·
        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.

      • webghost0101
        171·
        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.

      • Vespair@lemm.ee
        6·
        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.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      41·
      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.

  • Obinice@lemmy.world
    1093·
    2 months ago

    But what is he addicted to? We’ll never know!

    This new coddled baby internet for children where you can’t say adult words is getting tiring.

    When does the adult internet come back?

      • wurstgulasch3000@lemmy.world
        18·
        2 months ago

        But that’s the stupid part. It’s not even about cursing. It’s about words like heroin, kill, rape, etc. I mean is this tiktok or what

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, it’s not about the choice of language someone uses, it’s about simultaneously wanting to use a word but also not use it. At least for the self-censors.

          And it’s about someone else wanting to show others that thing, but for whatever reason deciding that some words used are too bad or something. And then doing it on words where the “problem” comes from the meaning rather than the word itself (unlike “fuck” or “shit” where they are “ok” topics but “unacceptable” terms to use and frequently used outside of their original meanings anyways).

          Censorship is dumb in general (other than redacting personal information to prevent harassment), but this whole “I want to use words but not really use them” and “I think people should see this content, but they can’t handle it without hiding some things” are extra dumb.

    • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      2 months ago

      Listening to a folk punk song that uses the word fuck to great effect on Spotify yesterday, wondering why the fuck the line ‘If you fuck up I will still be your friend’ reads ‘If you f up’.

      I just don’t get it. Fuck is a valid, if vulgar, part of the common English lexicon. It serves a purpose.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 months ago

        Also folk punk is supposed to be rough. It’s gonna curse. It’s gonna have drugs. And it’s gonna ask you how we’re supposed to fucking live without being high all the damn time. Clean folk punk is just political theory harshly sang and accompanied with banjo

    • yamanii@lemmy.world
      112·
      2 months ago

      When does the adult internet come back?

      When the advertisers leave, these algorithms only suppress posts with those words because they don’t like it.

  • moakley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    My daughter once asked me, “Do rainbows stop the rain?”

    She was three and, in my opinion, very insightful. These rainbows keep showing up right about the time the rain stops. A little too convenient to be a coincidence, right?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    6·
    2 months ago

    Hey, if the little guy wants to stand in a stooped position and drool and think about birds flapping their wings to generate wind, who are you to get in the way of his dreams. Be an enabler.