I have noticed posts and comments mocking posts which have a mild curse word crossed out or ‘censored’ in some way. Yes, it was here before, but now I feel it increased. This post was my final straw: https://lemmy.world/post/34998482

I am noticing similar instances on the rise, has something happened? A law was passed somewhere?

  • Max-P@lemmy.max-p.me
    17·
    5 days ago

    Basically comes down to being “advertiser friendly”.

    Because of that:

    • Platforms like YouTube and TikTok downrank you through the algorithm because they can’t put ads on your video to monetize it
    • People probably want to upload talks to YouTube, so it’s taken into account even if there’s nothing preventing you at the actual conference.
    • People don’t want to be censored on those platforms, so other terms are reused to avoid angering the algorithm (so we got, unalive, PDF files, and all that stuff)
    • It bleeds into the common language.

    That’s not new: there’s a reason there’s a million way to talk about taking a shit. Everytime it becomes too popular/“gross”, a new one is born that’s supposedly more classy. Same thing happened with toilets/bathrooms/restrooms/water rooms. I don’t know why we still try to pretend we don’t all take a shit every now and then.

    • ultrafastsloth@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      4 days ago

      I agree that it was here at least since modern broadcast media, afaik. But now it feels driven more by something else. Maybe I am just getting old and cynical. Or paranoid as the other commenter suggested. Anyway, thanks for the rundown