Puritans can fuck themselves with a pineapple. It's as ridiculous as finding full stops offensive and insisting the rest of the world bow to them by using double commas or something.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago

Except no one sees the censored thing and doesn't think the word itself. If anything the censor is bringing extra attention to it. It's dumb. If the person posting is scared of the word, they should leave it out. If they're worried other people might fear it then either they should leave it out or not bother censoring because they see it anyway.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I understand that and I prefer to not swear most of the time as well. But these "I'll leave out the vowels" edits don't change the number of swearwords in the sentence.

[–] 6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 months ago

because it actually adds comedic value to some, like me. it's somehow funnier if you sloppily censor fuck? i can't explain it but yesh, if you don't think of it like that it'll be pretty cringe

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Murica. Dunno if any other country does censor such trivialities too. And to the deeper why: religious hipocrisy i guess.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Afaik tiktok also heavily censors topics that are considered bad publicity or whatever. In fact, considering that this self-censor trend (edit: this type of self censor trend that utilizes cutting out vowels instead of using euphemisms or not using the words at all) is much much younger than YouTube or Instagram (at least I noticed it only a few months, maybe one or two years ago) I'd say the American companies weren't even the driving force behind it.

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Youtube has forced it onto their creators for a while. Censor swears or risk upsetting the almighty algorithm and getting demonetized, because apparently american companies don't like being associated with swearing.

[–] Turun@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, but the YouTube culture used to not use swearwords/unwanted words as a result of this. I have recently seen a few videos, where they said prn and sx, including cutting the vowels from the audio. This change in how to deal with the restrictions imposed by the platform is what I don't understand.

Edit: I have edited my comment above to be more precise.