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[–] 36 points 11 months ago* (5 children)

I can't figure out that last word f***k this is b******t g****r

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    one does not simply walk into m*rd*r

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    Spineless bitch ass ad c*mpany ball fondling fucks, the lot of them.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago

    Sure. Censor gweer, but not w*ld

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Those scary words make the investors sad. :(

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Eight words you can't say on YouTube.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I have no idea who Hank H*ll is tho.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    They'd rather unalive us all than miss out on profits.

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  • [+] -13 points 11 months ago* (6 children)

    Dunno why it’s so hard to figure out or why people bitch about it.

    Posting certain words will often get your social media submission blocked, pushed way down by the algorithm, or run up against a rule of some kind.

    So people make up stuff like “unalived” or “sh•t” or “f•ck” so they don’t run up against soft censorship.

    That’s how it is. It’s not Earth shattering, it’s censorship.

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    The problem is the corporate system and that people are willing to abide by and accept that system, and when they bring the compromises due to the system to places (such as the Threadiverse) to which those compromises are irrelevant.

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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Except that there's no evidence that saying "killed" or "murdered" for example, actually does push you down the algorithm. And if it did, surely saying "unalived" would have the same effect by now, since the algorithm could easily be extended to this term, and it's been in use for ages.
    People censoring themselves in this way, preemptively, with no certainty that it is making a difference is like late-stage Orwellian batshit insanity.
    It's enough of a reason on its own to avoid those platforms. When even the creators are disingenuous enough to self-censor inoffensive words in an effort to appease an opaque algorithm, the content cannot possibly be meaningful.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    There is plenty of evidence of people being demonitized for using certain words or phrases. I haven't even seen anyone arguing that it hides their videos or anything like that, but they definitely stop giving you ad revenue if you violate the rules which are very clearly outlined on youtube and tiktok at least.

    Youtube specifically has a list of words and phrases that may lead to being demonitized. They also used to have a rule saying you could not swear within the first minute or so of the video. That one has changed recently, tho.

    And becsuse the big content creators are concerned about it, monkey see, monkey do. Most of this shit is by kids that know their favorite creators censor themselves so they also do it not necessarily knowing why, and it won't even really affect them.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    The advertisers say “don’t associate us with (x) words”. The algorithms push moneymaking videos to the top. If your video is full of things ad companies don’t like, you get fewer ads, down you go.

    Nice way to say “We don’t (directly) prevent content from being shown.” It just conveniently works out that way.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    There is plenty of evidence of people being demonitized for using certain words or phrases

    No, I don't think this is true. I think that the context is what leads to demonetisation. I am not arguing that this is acceptable, but I don't see any evidence that words alone will cause demonetisation. Even the most offensive racial slurs are allowed in the context of e.g. a linguist educating about their origins, or an uncensored music video.

    they definitely stop giving you ad revenue if you violate the rules

    Yep, and that's fair enough. Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom to get paid for speaking.

    Youtube specifically has a list of words and phrases that may lead to being demonitized.

    I don't think there is such a list, at least not one published by YouTube. Can you find it? I can't.

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