Top image is YouTube search for "Bif Naked Let Down", which brings up prompt to Sign In to confirm age. The bottom is the same search query with the word "naked" removed from the artist's name, which brings up search results.

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[–] 70 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The Scunthorpe problem strikes again.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    That one seemed to be all about offending substrings in words.

    I find this one even dumber because it's simply dumb to censor the word "naked", which isn't even explicit, can be used figuratively, etc.

    I think youtube just wants more people to create accounts.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I forget exactly what I was searching for, but it had the word young in it. Google told me this is illegal and refused to do it.

    Scared me off the whole Internet for like 2 days.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    When I try and look up the band "Suicidal Tendencies" the only thing I get is a suicide hotline message. It's so fucking stupid

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  • [–] 105 points 2 months ago* (5 children)

    Searching for Bare Naked Ladies must be a nightmare.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    a while back I was looking for someone named "Molly Green" on Instagram and they said "we cannot complete this request. here are addiction treatment resources"

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    A while back I sent my buddy a TikTok with the comment “this fucking killed me” and got an “if you are thinking about hurting yourself, here is the suicide prevention hotline” automated warning in the chat.

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  • [–] 44 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    they definitely have the resources to whitelist valid combinations, but some shirt ran the numbers and decided it wouldn't bring enough money in

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Playing devil's rusted avocado, if I know anything about mature content submissions, they'll latch onto any whitelisted combo as soon as it's discovered and dilute the actual desired content.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    but that's also true of literally any other keyword out there. They wouldn't particularly be driving any more traffic since that's not what the user was searching for, they'd just be getting their whole site delisted.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago

    If google believes I'll find porn by looking up "naked" on youtube thu problem might be tht they forgot their content filters.. Not the search

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    I really hope those kids they have saved never realize they themselves are naked below their clothing. They'd instantly die fatally of lethal shock.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Do a video search with "site:youtube.com" on the various Web search engines that have a video search.

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ayoutube.com+bif+naked+let+down&iar=videos

    You don't need to use YouTube's search engine to search YouTube.

    EDIT: I mean, many of you, like me, probably long-since tried and then gave up on using Reddit's (really bad, at least last time I tried it) search engine to search Reddit, but found that doing "site:reddit.com" searches on Web search engines was still useful. The same principle applies elsewhere...

    EDIT2: Plus, you may not even want the site:youtube.com qualifier, if you're fine with videos from other video-hosting websites.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    YT's own search is garbage anyway. Whenever I try to use it, it's completely useless. Language preferences are also non-existent anymore, it seems. Even if I set everything to English and the query is also in English, it still gives me only results in local language.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Searching for music from Psychedelic porn crumpets on youtube is also fun!

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago

    Psychedelic porn crumpets

    no results

    Such fun!

    They even renamed their channel to Psychedelic Prn Crumpets

    I think youtube just wants more people to create accounts, to force more and more views to be tied to IDable users.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Facebook marketplace wouldn't let me search for an LSD for my car, I had to search for a limited slip differential, which gave me a ton of results for posts that had "LSD" in the listing.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    I wonder what happens if I search for Butthole Surfers?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Insane how weighted response filtering and graph search have existed for eons, to say nothing about the fact the search query could be pre-parsed by an LLM/"AI", and only now do these moronic companies use hard keyword filters.

    Makes you wonder if it's really "for the children" or just attempts at hard-censoring to train their future AI models.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They've been censoring stuff like this for years and years before llms even existed man. People are like so up in arms about ai and all the bullshit there that they forget about how things were even 3 years ago. If you notice one of the biggest things on here is the dude isn't signed in if you're not signed in then it's going to ask if you're legit or not.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I met her once. She's really nice and super down to earth.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Yo! Bif Naked ftw!

    Been a fan since the Buffy appearance lol.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    I can't say I'm a fan, but it's great to see people still listening to Bif Naked in 2026.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Definitely a big let down.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Thanks for the song rec! Love it!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Search for "bif na". She is the first result.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    If we start using lbry instead of youtube, we wouldnt have that problem..

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    If those who have even heard about LBRY all started exclusively using it today, youtube wouldn't even feel the traffic drop.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    That is exactly the problem. I wander why much better platform is one that majority of people didnt even heard of. And much worse platform is the one that eweryone uses…?

    Shouldnt we compare two by technology and see whic one is better instead of just using the popular one..? Because diference is huge!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I wander why much better platform is one that majority of people didnt even heard of

    Do you...do you really wonder this? How, exactly, would you expect the masses to learn about something that has a zero dollar marketing budget?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Thats fair, but if product is good we users should be enough marketing to make word spread. I heard from a guy so now am telling others hoping it will cach someone else who likes it.

    First time i discovered it i was like omg this is great why i didnt know for this sooner.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I assumed that was "Ibry" and not "LBRY." Is it the former or the latter?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Music companies have a revenue sharing deal with YouTube. Does it have one with lbry?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    No but LBRY have its own economy system, so musicions are getting paied, probably much more than on youtube..

    I know many youtubers that sad they are earning more on LBRY with less followers than on youtube with more folowers.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The problem is, people dont understand technology, and dont know to chose better technology. They just pick more popular platform, despite its much worse technology.

    Than, when they get in trouble with censorship because of that, demonetisacion and other stuff, they just scratch their head, feel bad and dont know what to do..

    But if you researc a bit about that problem, you can find out that its alredy been solved, and that is LBRY content freedom platform that technicly works totaly diferent from youtube but serves same purpose.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Wont let me search for Excrementory Grindfuckers either. I have to put "Excrementory Grindfuckers Youtube" into my search engine to get it to pull up. Pretty lame.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It says "confirm your age." Are you under 18? Would it give valid search results to someone over 18?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

    I don't have a Google account. I'm avoiding Google in general, but even when I want to make an account for work purposes, it tells me that my phone number has been used too many times for some odd reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Works for me...

    Anything special about your account?
    Family Link restriction or so?

    I also haven't seen a "confirm your age" message up to now.
    Maybe a country-specific restriction?
    Where are you from?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You're logged in. The OP wasn't.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    Okay, I see, didn't notice the "login" on the screenshot before.
    But then it kinda makes sense that the the most restrictive default filters are active.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    No it doesn't. It's about friction. They want people logged in to better monitor them and collect their data. If someone uses their service while logged out the platforms make it difficult as possible in as many ways as possible to "encourage" people to create an account and log in. "Protecting the children" is just a satanic panic excuse. PARENTS are responsible for managing their children's online activities. Expecting platform providers to be the arbitrators of morality for our kids (or for adults) is how we ended up with Elon Musk's fucked up CSM generator on twixxer.

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  • Black Tiger Sex Machine goes brrr

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    I remember her. Is it just me or is she kinda weird looking?

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 months ago

    Thanks random internet stranger! I will now proceed to define my entire personality to your whims. Please enlighten me with what true music is!

    Lol get a life and be miserable somewhere else.

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